Kenny Chesney
Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney ( born March 26, 1968 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American country singer and songwriter, who had more than 30 Top Ten singles on the Billboard country charts.
Career
Chesney grew up in Tennessee. It was only during his college time he came to the music, he learned to play the guitar and played in the bluegrass band his school. Finally, he began to write her own songs and performed at each free evening in clubs and bars. After his degree in marketing at East Tennessee State University, he went in 1991 in the country capital Nashville.
After he had been there for some time engaged in a Honky Tonk, he signed his contract with a label as a songwriter and shortly afterwards he also came to an own recording contract. End of 1993, his debut album was released In My Wildest Dreams. Even if his label got out shortly afterwards from the Country Music, it gave him enough attention to get taken on a major label. Already the following album All I Need to Know earned him entry into the country scene.
The first big hit was Chesney's Fall in Love, which reached the Top 10 in the spring of 1995. The title song of the album entered the top 10, but subsequent singles did not reach the Top 20
In the fall of 1996, he landed his biggest hit up to that Me and You, with whom he moved into the top 5, and he returned in early 1997 with back When I Close My Eyes. In August 1997, he stormed She's Got it All the charts and spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs.
More of his subsequent number - one hits were: How Forever Feels ( six weeks at # 1 in Spring 1999), The Good Stuff ( in the summer of 2002, seven weeks at No. 1 ), There Goes My Life ( early 2004 also seven weeks at the peak), and When the Sun Goes Down ( a duet with Uncle Kracker, in spring 2004, five weeks on the first place ).
In addition to the first places Chesney reached some second placings with That's Why I'm Here (Summer 1998), Young ( Spring 2002), Big Star (Spring 2003), No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem ( late summer 2003) and The Woman with You (Fall 2004).
2004 Chesney was the first time the entertainer -of -the- Year Award of the CMA awarded. In January 2005, Chesney released the album Be as You Are: Songs From an Old Blue Chair.
In September 2007, Chesney's album Just Who I Am was released: Poets & Pirates. The resulting pre-release single Do not Blink was the 13th number - one hit in the U.S. country charts for Chesney.
In May 2008, Chesney was awarded by the Academy of Country Music Awards for the fourth consecutive year, the audience prize "Entertainer of the Year". In November of the same year he received from the CMA for the third time in a row the award for Entertainer of the Year.
In 2009 he released his second greatest hits album, which was his ninth number - one album on the country charts. With the single release Out Last Night he reached 16th place his best finish so far in the Hot 100 the same time, it was his tenth gold single. With the advance publication The Boys of Fall for his next studio album, Hemingway 's Whiskey, he reached in October 2010 for the 17th time # 1 on the country charts.
After an evaluation of the Billboard magazine of the most financially successful music artists in the U.S. market ( CD sales, downloads, radio royalties, concerts, but not endorsement deals, merchandising, etc.) Kenny Chesney came to nearly $ 30 million net net profit in 2011, 3rd place
Private life
On 9 May 2005 Chesney married actress Renee Zellweger. Chesney wrote, based on a quote from the movie Jerry Maguire, the song You Had Me from Hello for them. Just four months later, on 16 September 2005, Zellweger was the separation of known and pleaded Ehenanullierung for fraud. On 22 December 2005, the marriage was officially annulled.