Famous singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, finest regarded for his song “Margaritaville,” has died, a assertion posted to his web site and social media channels reported Saturday.
He was 76.
“Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night time of September 1st surrounded by his household, buddies, songs and canines,” the statement claimed.
“He lived his existence like a song until the incredibly very last breath and will be skipped beyond measure by so numerous,” it additional.
Buffett was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, a city on the Gulf Coastline, on Christmas Working day 1946.
Right after mastering guitar at faculty he started playing on the streets of New Orleans prior to heading on to sort his 1st band, the biography on his web-site states.
He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to do the job for Billboard Magazine and try out his luck as a singer, the biography provides. But it was in Crucial West in the 1970s that Buffett “found his correct voice,” the biography provides.
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