Legendary American rocker Jimmy Buffett has died, aged 76.
The Margaritaville singer’s dying was introduced on Saturday afternoon AEST in a press release on X, previously generally known as Twitter, and on his web site.
“Jimmy handed away peacefully on the night time of September 1st surrounded by his household, pals, music and canine,” the assertion stated.
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“He lived his life like a music until the final breath and can be missed past measure by so many.”
The assertion didn’t say the place Buffett died or give a reason behind dying. Sickness had compelled him to reschedule concert events in Might and Buffett acknowledged in social media posts that he had been hospitalised, however offered no specifics.
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The singer-songwriter, who popularised beach-bum tender rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavoured music Margaritaville and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of eating places, resorts and frozen concoctions.
Margaritaville, launched on February 14, 1977, rapidly took on a lifetime of its personal, turning into a mind-set for these “wastin’ away”, an excuse for a lifetime of low-key enjoyable and escapism for these “rising older, however not up”.
The music is the unhurried portrait of a idler on his entrance porch, watching vacationers sunbathe whereas a pot of shrimp is starting to boil.
The signer has a brand new tattoo, a possible hangover and regrets over a misplaced love. Someplace there’s a misplaced salt shaker.
“What looks like a easy ditty about getting blotto and mending a damaged coronary heart seems to be a profound meditation on the customarily painful inertia of seaside dwelling,” Spin journal wrote in 2021.
“The vacationers come and go, one group indistinguishable from the opposite. Waves crest and break whether or not anyone is there to witness it or not. Every little thing which means something has already occurred and you are not even positive when.”
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The music — from the album Adjustments in Latitudes, Adjustments in Attitudes — spent 22 weeks on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart and peaked at quantity eight.
The music was inducted into the Grammy Corridor of Fame in 2016 for its cultural and historic significance, turned a karaoke normal and helped model Key West, Florida, as a definite sound of music and a vacation spot recognized the world over.
“There was no such place as Margaritaville,” Buffett advised the Arizona Republic in 2021.
“It was a made-up place in my thoughts, principally made up about my experiences in Key West and having to go away Key West and go on the highway to work after which come again and spend time by the seaside.”
The music quickly impressed eating places and resorts, turning Buffett’s alleged need for the simplicity of island life right into a multimillion model.
He landed at quantity 13 in Forbes’ America’s Richest Celebrities in 2016 with a web value of $US 550 million ($851 million).
The singer is survived by spouse Jane Slagsvolv and their three kids – daughters Savannah Buffett and Sarah Delaney Buffett, and adopted son Cameron Buffett.
