Kenneth Arnold Chesney was born on March 26,1968 and is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
48 Facts About Kenny Chesney
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Kenny Chesney has recorded more than 20 albums and has produced more than 40 Top 10 singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, 32 of which have reached number one.
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Kenny Chesney has received twelve Country Music Association Awards and eleven Academy of Country Music Awards, as well as six Grammy Award nominations.
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Kenny Chesney is one of the most popular touring acts in country music, regularly selling out the venues in which he performs.
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Kenny Chesney was born on March 26,1968, in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, at St Mary's Medical Center and was raised in Luttrell.
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Kenny Chesney is the son of David Chesney, a former elementary school teacher, and Karen Chandler, a hair stylist in the Knoxville area.
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Kenny Chesney has one sibling, a younger sister named Jennifer Chandler.
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In 1986, Kenny Chesney graduated from Gibbs High School, where he played baseball and football.
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Kenny Chesney received his first guitar, "The Terminor", for Christmas and began teaching himself how to play it.
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Kenny Chesney studied advertising at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, where he was a member of the ETSU Bluegrass Program and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and graduated in 1990.
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Kenny Chesney sold 1,000 copies while performing at the local clubs in Johnson City and used the money from album sales to help himself buy a new guitar.
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Kenny Chesney became the resident performer at The Turf, a honky tonk bar in the city's historic district.
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Kenny Chesney then signed with BNA Records, and released his second studio album All I Need to Know in 1995.
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That same year, Kenny Chesney co-wrote Confederate Railroad's single "When He Was My Age" from their album When and Where.
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Kenny Chesney utilized fiddle and steel instrumentation within this album in order to highlight the down-home sentiments and the unique Tennessee twang in his voice.
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In recognition of his successful year, Kenny Chesney was honored with the 1997 Academy of Country Music's New Male Vocalist of the Year award.
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In 2003, Kenny Chesney recorded All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan.
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Kenny Chesney was presented with AMA's 2004 Artist of the Year award.
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In January 2005, Kenny Chesney released the album Be as You Are, supporting it with his Somewhere in the Sun Tour.
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In spring 2005, Kenny Chesney was honored with the prestigious Triple-Crown Award presented by the Academy of Country Music.
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Kenny Chesney promotes his beliefs of perfection, as getting songs right in the studio, ultimately leads to performing it right on the road and on the radio.
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On November 7,2007, Kenny Chesney was named the CMA Entertainer of the Year for the third time in four years.
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Kenny Chesney decided that he would give country music a place in the competition, claiming country artists were just as popular as those in the rap genre.
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Kenny Chesney came in third place in record sales among the three musical artists.
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Kenny Chesney started his Poets and Pirates Tour on April 26,2008, at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.
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When Kenny Chesney finally freed himself, he stood up and held his hand on his knee as he began singing.
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Kenny Chesney did not acknowledge the injury during the early part of his performance.
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On May 19,2008, just a day after being honored as the ACM Entertainer of the Year at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, Kenny Chesney criticized the lack of choice in the producers' awarding the honor based on fan votes.
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On July 24,2008, Kenny Chesney announced that he would be releasing a new single from an upcoming album entitled Lucky Old Sun.
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In May 2009, Kenny Chesney released his second compilation album, Greatest Hits II.
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Also included on this album is one that Willie Nelson recorded before Kenny Chesney did, "I'm Alive".
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In July 2010, Kenny Chesney released "The Boys of Fall" as the lead-off single from his album Hemingway's Whiskey, which was released in September 2010.
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Kenny Chesney then appeared at the 44th Annual Country Music Awards on November 10,2010.
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Kenny Chesney produced and narrated a biographical film, The Color Orange, on his favorite football player growing up, University of Tennessee quarterback and Canadian Football League hall-of-fame Condredge Holloway.
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Kenny Chesney released his fourteenth studio album, Welcome to the Fishbowl, on June 19,2012.
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Kenny Chesney released his fifteenth studio album, Life on a Rock, on April 30,2013.
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In June 2014, Kenny Chesney released the new song "American Kids" to radio.
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On October 24, Kenny Chesney announced his 2015 tour The Big Revival Tour, which began on March 26,2015.
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On March 7,2016, Kenny Chesney announced that he was in the studio working on new music.
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The term No Shoes Nation originated from Kenny Chesney's hit song "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem".
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In January 2018, it was announced that Kenny Chesney had ended his contract with Sony Music Nashville and signed to Warner Bros.
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Kenny Chesney released his first album with Warner, entitled Songs for the Saints, on July 27,2018.
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On May 9,2005, Kenny Chesney married actress Renee Zellweger in a ceremony on the island of St John.
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In 2017, Kenny Chesney came to the aid of the US and British Virgin Islands victims of Hurricane Irma, one of whom was given a free lift to the mainland United States.
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Kenny Chesney owns a mansion on St John in the US Virgin Islands, where many stayed to weather the storm.
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Kenny Chesney set up a charitable fund, Love for Love City, to help victims of the storm.
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Kenny Chesney will donate all proceeds from "Songs for the Saints" to the fund.
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Kenny Chesney won the Billboard Touring Award for Top Package Tour five consecutive years between 2005 and 2009, and again in 2011.