1. Kenneth Arnold Chesney was born on March 26,1968 and is an American country singer.
57 Facts About Kenny Chesney
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Kenny Chesney's albums spawned 27 singles that have peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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Kenny Chesney has received twelve Country Music Association Awards, including the Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year honor four times, and eleven Academy of Country Music Awards, including four consecutive Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year from 2005 to 2008, as well as six Grammy Award nominations.
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Kenny Chesney has remained one of the most popular touring acts in United States country music.
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On March 25,2025 Kenny Chesney was named a member-elect to the Country Music Hall of Fame, with the formal induction taking place later in 2025.
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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 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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In June 1995, Kenny Chesney signed with BNA Records, and released his second studio album All I Need to Know.
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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 musicians playing the fiddle and pedal steel guitar throughout this album, as he felt this would highlight the open-country, "down-home" feelings in his music; fiddle and pedal steel further helped to compliment his eastern-Tennessean accent and "twang" heard in his singing and inflections.
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Kenny Chesney was honored with the 1997 Academy of Country Music's New Male Vocalist of the Year award.
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In September 2000, Kenny Chesney released his Greatest Hits compilation album.
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In October 2003, Kenny Chesney recorded All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan.
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In February 2004, Kenny Chesney released When the Sun Goes Down.
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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 May 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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In May 2006, Kenny Chesney was honored with his second Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.
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In 2007, with Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley, Kenny Chesney co-wrote Rascal Flatts' 2007 single "Take Me There", which served as the lead-off single to their album Still Feels Good.
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In 2007, Kenny Chesney recorded a duet with Reba McEntire on her album Reba: Duets.
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In November 2007, Kenny Chesney was named the CMA Entertainer of the Year for the third time in four years.
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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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Kenny Chesney did not cancel any shows due to the injury.
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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 change in the awards process to awarding the honor based on fan votes and not determined by music industry professionals.
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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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Kenny Chesney later recorded a version of the song as a duet with Dave Matthews.
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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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That year, Kenny Chesney produced a documentary for ESPN titled The Boys of Fall based on his song of the same name.
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In November 2010, Kenny Chesney performed at the 44th Annual Country Music Awards.
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Kenny Chesney produced and narrated a biographical film, The Color Orange, on his favorite football player growing up, Tennessee Volunteers football 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 song "American Kids", written by Rodney Clawson, Luke Laird, and Shane McAnally.
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On October 24, Kenny Chesney announced his 2015 tour The Big Revival Tour, which began on March 26,2015 and included ten shows with Jason Aldean.
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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, Kenny Chesney ended his contract with Sony Music Nashville and signed to Warner Records Nashville.
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Kenny Chesney released his first album with Warner, entitled Songs for the Saints, in July 2018.
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In May 2020, Kenny Chesney released Here and Now, which features the title track and "Tip of My Tongue", a leadoff single that was released in mid-2019.
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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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Kenny Chesney later suggested the failure of his marriage was due to "the fact that I panicked".
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Kenny Chesney follows a strict diet that includes avoiding eating carbohydrates after 5 pm.
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Kenny Chesney fell in love with the island after shooting the music video for "How Forever Feels".
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In January 2022, Kenny Chesney sold his 12,600 square foot home on 56 acres in Franklin, Tennessee, for $11.5 million, which represented a loss in real terms; he paid $9.2 million for it in 2009.
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In September 2017, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Kenny Chesney donated use of his private jet to reunite two teenage boys, who were stranded, with their mother.
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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 donated all proceeds from his album 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 2011,2012, and 2015.