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Kenny Chesney est un chanteur américain de country, né le 26 mars 1968 à Knoxville dans le Tennessee.
Il s'est notamment fait connaître par deux tubes "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" et "When The Sun Goes Down" en duo avec Uncle Kracker.
Il est également célèbre pour son mariage en 2005 avec l'actrice Renée Zellweger qui n'a duré que quelques mois.
Sa carrière musicale commenca par des petites représentations dans des endroits locaux autour de la ville de Johnson City comme le Chucky's Trading Post (un petit
restaurant mexicain), le Quarterbacks BBQ et Rafters. Il a enregistré son premier album en 1989 au studio d'enregistrement de Bristol, en Virginie. Milles copies en furent tirés et vendues.
Avec l'argent des ventes d'album, il s'acheta une nouvelle guitare. Une fois son diplôme en poche, il partit pour Nashville afin de proposer sa musique là ou on voulait bien de lui. Après avoir
reçu un diplôme de l'université, il se dirige à Nashville, où il l'a exécuté partout pourrait, y compris un endroit appelé HounDogs. En 1992, Kenny Chesney signe son premier contrat avec le BMI
et le groupe de musique d'Opryland.
Il a également fait les gigs régulières dans un club méridional appelé Turf. Après la fabrication des disques des producteurs de Nashville, Chesney a obtenu un
contrat en 1992 avec le BMI et le groupe de musique d'Opryland.
Discographie
1994 : In My Wildest Dreams
1995 : All I Need To Know
1996 : Me And You
1997 : I Will Stand
1999 : Everywhere We Go
2000 : Greatest Hits
2002 : No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
2003 : All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan
2004 : When the Sun Goes Down
2005 : Be As You Are (Songs From an Old Blue Chair)
2005 : The Road and the Radio
2006 : Live: Live Those Songs Again
2007 : Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
2008 : Lucky Old Sun
2009 : Greatest Hits II
Kenneth Arnold (Kenny) Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have
been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than thirty Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, seventeen of which reached Number One. In
addition, Chesney has received six ACM (including four consecutive Entertainer of the Year Awards), as well as six CMA awards. Chesney is also one of the most popular touring acts in country
music, regularly selling out the venues at which he performs; his 2007 Flip-Flop Summer Tour was the highest-grossing country road trip of 2007. He was awarded his 4th consecutive ACM Entertainer
of the Year award on May 18, 2008.
Early life
Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee at St. Mary's Hospital on March 26, 1968. His mother Karen, was, and still is, a hair stylist in the Knoxville area. His father, David Chesney, is a
former Elementary school teacher. Chesney has one sibling, a younger sister named Jennifer Chandler. He was raised in Luttrell, Tennessee and attended Gibbs High School, where he was a receiver
on the football team, and graduated in 1986. The following year, Kenny received his first guitar for Christmas, where he began teaching himself to play. He had previously attempted guitar playing
at age 5, but quit because "it hurt his fingers".
Chesney studied in East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity and was member of the ETSU Bluegrass Program. Chesney
played tunes at local places around Johnson City like Chucky's Trading Post (a small Mexican restaurant), Quarterbacks BBQ, and Rafters. He recorded his first album in 1989 at Classic Recording
Studio in Bristol, Virginia. A thousand copies were produced and Chesney sold them at his busking gigs, using the money from album sales to help buy a new guitar.
In 1990, Chesney graduated from East Tennessee State University with a degree in advertising. After graduation, he headed to Nashville, where he performed at several local clubs. After making the
rounds of the music publishers in Nashville, Chesney signed to contract in 1992 with BMI and Opryland Music Group.
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