Kenny Chesney (L) and Jimmy Buffet (R) perform at The Everglades Foundation Sixth Annual Benefit at The Breakers in February 2011 in Palm Beach, Florida.Photo:Lucien Capehart/Getty
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Kenny Chesneyis rememberingJimmy Buffett.
Chesney alsoposted a tribute to his friend on InstagramSaturday, sharing a video of him performing Buffett’s song “A Pirate Looks at Forty” on a beach, as he wished his friend farewell in the post’s caption.
Back in 2021, the country singer surprised fans when he joined Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band on stage in Nashville to perform “Margaritaville.”
“Always a blast being on stage with my friends Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, and the rest of the Coral Reefer Band. Thanks for the invite Jimmy,” Chesney wrote on Instagram at the time, alongside a video of the performance.
Jimmy Buffett arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Chesney’s 2018 albumSongs for the Saintsfeatures Buffett on a version of his 1974 track “Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season,” while an early Chesney album even includes a reference to Buffett in song.
Shortly after, in 2005, Chesney paid tribute to his fellow singer in an interview with theMinneapolis Star-Tribune.
“I think everybody’s a Jimmy Buffett wannabe,” he told the outlet at the time, adding, “Deep down, Jimmy was always a country artist. His songs had a country soul to them.”
Later, an official obituary for the star wasposted on Buffett’s website, which detailed that he died from Merkel cell skin cancer, which he was diagnosed with four years ago. (Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare, aggressive skin cancer that often begins as “red, shiny nodules on the face, hands and neck,” per the MD Anderson Cancer Center.)
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