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Jimmy Buffett
James William Buffett was an American singer-songwriter, author, and businessperson. He was known for his tropical music sound blending country, rock, folk, calypso, and his persona, which often portrayed a lifestyle described as "island escapism." It promoted enjoying life and following passions. Buffett recorded many hit songs, including those known as "The Big 8": "Margaritaville" (1977), which…
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business · American singer-songwriter (1946–2023) · singer · writer · novelist · aircraft pilot · singer-songwriter · autobiographer · actor · children's writer · film producer · entrepreneur · also Jimmy Buffett, Buffett
Born 25 December 1946 · Died 1 September 2023 · Q726071
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 4 entries
Published video “Beachside Yule Log from Margaritaville”.
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Published video “Paradise Is Where You Park It”.
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Published video “Escape to Paradise at Camp Margaritaville Crystal Beach! 🏖️🚐 #rvtravel #rvlife”.
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Published video “Escape to Paradise at Camp Margaritaville Crystal Beach! 🏖️🚐”.
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2024· 2 entries
Published video “Jimmy Buffett "Equal Strain On All Parts" Album Track-By-Track Special”.
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Published video “Jimmy Buffett - University of Bourbon Street ft. Preservation Hall Jazz Band”.
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2023· 16 entries
Published video “Jimmy Buffett - The Twelve Days of Christmas (Parrothead Version)”.
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Published video “Jimmy Buffett - "Like My Dog" Video”.
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Released album “Equal Strain on All Parts”.
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Published video “Bubbles Up (Official Music Video)”.
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Published video “Jimmy Buffett - A Sailor's Christmas (Audio)”.
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Published video “Jimmy Buffett - Christmas Island (Audio)”.
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Published video “Jimmy Buffett - Up On The House Top (Audio)”.
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Published video “Jimmy Buffett - A Visit From St. Nicholas (Audio)”.
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Published video “Jimmy Buffett - I'll Be Home For Christmas (Audio)”.
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Died 2023-09-01.
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Published video “Welcome to the Margaritaville Run!”.
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Published video “There’s nothing quite like a trip to the Smoky Mountains”.
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Published video “Who Couldn't Use More Of This In Their Life Right Now?”.
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Published video “Margaritaville Perks is a welcome escape from the traditional loyaltyprogram.”.
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Published video “Sometimes you just need to be there.”.
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Published video “Are you a lounge by the water vacationer or do you need to be active?”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “1980-07-04: Minneapolis, MN, USA”.
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2020· 9 entries
Released album “Songs You Don’t Know by Heart”.
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Released album “Life on the Flip Side”.
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Released album “Live From Clarkston, MI 07/27/1991”.
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Released album “Live From Pensacola, FL 02/05/2013”.
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Buffett released Songs You Don't Know by Heart, a fan-curated collection of his lesser-known songs rerecorded on his collection of notable guitars
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Released album “Live From Wantagh, NY 08/29/2000”.
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The Associated Press described Buffett's sound as a "special Gulf Coast blend of country, pop, folk and rock, topped by Buffett's swaying voice
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Buffett sold a 4,783-square-foot house in Palm Beach for $6
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Released album “Live From Chula Vista, CA 05/24/2001”.
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2019· 1 entry
Buffett had an extended cameo playing himself in the Harmony Korine film The Beach Bum
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2018· 2 entries
And officially opened on March 15 under the direction of Tony winner Christopher Ashley
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Released album “Escape To Margaritaville (Original Broadway Cast Recording)”.
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2017· 5 entries
Released album “Buried Treasure: Volume 1”.
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Buffett was the musical guest on the NCIS: New Orleans episode "Rogue Nation", playing the song "I Will Play for Gumbo" in Dwayne Pride's (Scott Bakula) newly rebuilt bar
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Latitude Margaritaville, a 3,900-home $1 billion retirement village near Interstate 95 in Daytona Beach, Florida, was announced by Buffett in partnership with Minto Group
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By 2017, Buffett's diet did not include sugar or carbohydrates, except on Sundays, and he no longer smoked marijuana.
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And in Panama City Beach, Florida, in 2021
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “’tis the SeaSon”.
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Buffett partnered with FunPlus to develop a new Margaritaville game
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2015).
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Released album “2 X Live At The Record Plant, Feb 19 & Oct 24 1974 (Remastered)”.
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Released album “The Palladium, NYC, 3/14/80”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “The Jimmy Buffett Collection Sun, Sea and Margaritas”.
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Songs From St. Somewhere”.
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Buffett partnered with the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to open the $35 million Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville-themed entertainment complex at the hotel, which included a Margaritaville Restaurant wit
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Buffett purchased another house in Palm Beach, with 3,100 square feet, for $1
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “Welcome to Fin City”.
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Had Saints head coach Sean Payton serve as an honorary member of the Coral Reefer Band at a concert in New Orleans in protest of Payton's suspension by the National Football League as a result of the New Orleans Saint
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For two shows in Brisbane and Melbourne, and made fun of the incident during those shows
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Buffett returned to Australia in 2012 for two shows in Brisbane and Melbourne, and made fun of the incident during those shows.
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A "Margaritaville Online" game was released by THQ for Facebook
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Volcano (Live 2011)”.
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(Australia Day) at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, he fell off the stage after an encore and lost consciousness
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2010· 4 entries
Along with Jesse Winchester and Allen Toussaint, Buffett, a Gulf Coast native, performed a free concert for 35,000 people on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama to draw tourism to the area in the aftermath of the Deepwater
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Released album “Encores”.
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Buffett sold his house in Palm Beach, Florida, to Jon Stryker for $18
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Buffett was named the tenth biggest touring artist of the decade, with 4
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Buffet Hotel”.
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Released ep “Live from Key West - EP”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Swine Not?”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Live in Anguilla”.
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Released album “Live at Texas Stadium”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Take the Weather With You”.
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Buffett was detained by French customs officials in Saint Tropez for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy
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To brew Landshark Lager, now one of the Anheuser-Busch brands
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Released album “Live at Wrigley Field”.
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Live at Fenway Park”.
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Released album “Now Yer Squawkin’”.
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Released album “Live in Hawaii”.
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2004· 5 entries
And the first edition of the book included a CD single of the song "A Salty Piece of Land
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Sold 238,500 copies in its first week of release according to Nielsen Soundscan
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Released album “License to Chill”.
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Released album “Live in Mansfield, MA”.
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Released album “Live in Cincinnati, OH”.
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Live in Las Vegas, NV”.
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Released album “Live in Auburn, WA”.
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Released album “Meet Me in Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection”.
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Buffett partnered in a partial duet with Alan Jackson for the song "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", which spent a then record eight weeks atop the Hot Country Songs charts
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Far Side of the World”.
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Released album “Captain America”.
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In partnership with Bloomin' Brands; it was sold to Luby's for $11 million in 2012 and shut down in 2020
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2001· 1 entry
Buffett was ejected from the American Airlines Arena (now the Kaseya Center) in Miami during a basketball game between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks for cursing
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Best of the Early Years”.
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Released album “There's Nothing Soft About Hard Times”.
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Released album “There's Nothing Soft About Hard Times, Volume 2”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “Millennium Concert”.
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Released album “Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays”.
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Released album “Beach House on the Moon”.
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Started Mailboat Records to release live albums
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Released ep “Calaloo”.
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Don't Stop the Carnival”.
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Went straight to number one on the New York Times Best Seller nonfiction list, making him one of the few authors to have reached number one on both the fiction and nonfiction lists
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Released album “American Storyteller”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Rancho Deluxe”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Christmas Island”.
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Released album “Banana Wind”.
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Buffett penned the song "Jamaica Mistaica" for his Banana Wind album based on a January 1996 incident in which Buffett's Grumman HU-16 airplane named Hemisphere Dancer was shot at by Jamaican police, who believed the cra
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Barometer Soup”.
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Released album “Biloxi”.
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1994· 5 entries
Released album “Fruitcakes”.
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Released album “Cocktails At Sunrise”.
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Buffett began developing a musical based on Herman Wouk's 1965 novel, Don't Stop the Carnival
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Released album “All the Great Hits”.
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Buffett duetted with Frank Sinatra on a cover of "Mack the Knife" on Sinatra's final studio album, Duets II
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Before the Beach”.
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Released album “A Pirates Treasure”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads”.
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Buffett launched Margaritaville Records, with distribution through MCA Records
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Feeding Frenzy”.
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Contributed the song, "Don't Bug Me" to the Arachnophobia soundtrack
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Off to See the Lizard”.
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A music critic in The Washington Post described Buffett's music as a combination of "tropical languor with country funkiness into what some [have] called the Key West sound, or Gulf-and-western
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The first Parrothead club was founded in Atlanta
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Hot Water”.
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1987· 1 entry
Buffett lobbied for the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act of 1973
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1986· 5 entries
Released album “Floridays”.
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Released album “A1A / Volcano”.
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Buffett began work to introduce the "Save the Manatee" license plate, featuring an image of a West Indian manatee, with proceeds going to the Save the Manatee Club
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Released album “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes / Havaña Daydreamin’”.
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Released album “Son of a Son of a Sailor / Coconut Telegraph”.
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1985· 4 entries
Released album “Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hit(s)”.
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Released album “Last Mango in Paris”.
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Tried again in Key West, expanding it to what became Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville in 1987
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Released album “Live by the Bay”.
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1984· 3 entries
Released album “Riddles in the Sand”.
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Buffett and a friend opened a T-shirt shop and expanded it into the first Margaritaville Cafe, in Gulf Shores, Alabama
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Released album “One Particular Harbour / Riddles in the Sand”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “One Particular Harbour”.
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Buffett filed and won a lawsuit against Chi-Chi's for attempting to trademark "Margaritaville" as a drink special
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1981· 2 entries
The Save the Manatee Club, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by Buffett and former Florida governor Bob Graham
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Released album “Somewhere Over China”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Coconut Telegraph”.
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Volcano”.
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Released album “Before the Salt”.
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1978· 3 entries
Released album “Son of a Son of a Sailor”.
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Released album “You Had to Be There”.
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And moved there shortly thereafter, where he got the inspiration for songs and characters in his books
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1977· 2 entries
“Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”
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Released album “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “High Cumberland Jubilee”.
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After Buffett became popular
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1975· 2 entries
Buffett formed the Coral Reefer Band
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Released album “Havaña Daydreamin’”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “A1A”.
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Released album “Living and Dying in ¾ Time”.
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean”.
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Buffett signed a recording contract with ABC/Dunhill Records, then run by Don Gant
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1970· 2 entries
Moved to Nashville to further his country music career
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Released album “Down to Earth”.
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1969· 2 entries
Where during his time there he also joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity
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Buffett moved to New Orleans and often held street performances for tourists on Decatur Street
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1966· 1 entry
Buffett played acid rock in a band called the Upstairs Alliance which attempted to emulate the sound of Jefferson Airplane
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1961· 1 entry
After seeing a folk music ensemble perform in Biloxi, Mississippi, Buffett realized that he wanted to be a musician
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1946· 3 entries
Born 1946-12-25.
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In Pascagoula, Mississippi and lived for part of his childhood in Mobile and Fairhope, Alabama
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“t Stop the Carnival debuted in Miami, Florida, in 1997 to negative reviews from critics. The show ran only for six weeks in Miami. Escape to Margaritaville, a musical, ran at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego from May 2017 to July 2017. The show then performed limited runs in New Orleans, Houston, and Chicago, and was well received by critics. The show features a book by Greg Garcia and Mike O”
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