Jimmy Buffett the recently departed soul, who was suffering from rare skin cancer for a while. He was born in 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and had his last breath at his home in Sag Harbor, New York. He left his footsteps in singing, composing songs, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman. Additionally, he appeared in sports too.
He started his professional career after graduating in 1969. He performed as a street performer at Decatur Street. In 1970, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee to take his music career on another stage. In the same year, his first album entered the market named, “Down to Earth”.
He had an addiction earlier and it came to light after having fame and name from his hit. He started having alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana. He needed to have cocaine to stay awake and perform. Several times he missed the performances, meetings, and so on. He started to lose relations with loved ones too. At that moment he was rehabilitated and stayed there. He was doing well there and improved fast and was released from rehab soon. At that period he released one of his hits “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” in 1977.
But after returning from rehab, he wasn’t sober for a long time and relapsed again. In the early 1980s, he was arrested for smuggling cocaine. He found himself at the bottom of his life and career. In 1983 he entered rehab (Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California) again. There he stayed around one long month. Betty Ford Center offers individual therapy, group therapy, medication, training in life skills, relapse prevention, aftercare programs, support groups, and so on.
From the rehab, Jimmy made himself sober and after returning from there he stayed sober with the help of his friends, family, and relapse prevention tricks.
There was an argument from Jimmy that he was found with tablets of ecstasy at a French airport and needed to pay a fine. He claimed it was not his but a planned trap. However the incident didn’t go for further processing and is still unclear.
However, after returning from rehab in 1983 the changes in his songs were noticed. It became more loving, meaningful, clamming. The journey of his addiction life was reflected in his songs. He released several hits in that century including “One Particular Harbour”, “Twelve Volt Man”, “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Bigger Than the Both of Us”, “Who’s the Blonde Stranger?” and so on.
He wasn’t only bound with single music but combined different countries’ music styles. He marked himself a reputed writer too. He wrote 3 books named “Tales from Margaritaville”, “Where Is Joe Merchant?”, “Pirate Looks at Fifty” and all were present in The New York Times Best Seller list. He wrote a nobel as well. He left his marks on televisions too.
Not only in the entertainment industries but also he proved himself a successful businessman. That included restaurants, casinos, sports, cannabis, and on and on.
He was one of the richest singers with $ 1 billion. He was the owner of 20 million sold albums and released up to 30 albums. Of which 17 were certified with 8 gold and 9 platinum or multi-platinum. 4 academy of country music awards, 1 American Music award, 1 People’s choice award, 1 songwriters hall of Fame award, and 1 Kennedy Center Honor were added to his bucket in his lifetime. “Margaritaville” is one of his best that we can’t forget. He’ll always be alive in our hearts and playlist.
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