KENNY CHESNEY

KENNY CHESNEYBorn : March 26, 1968

Knoxville, TennesseeBegin career: With college band writing his own songs and singing in local bars.1991 earned degree in marketing and headed to Nashville to work on his music career.1996 Kenny went gold with Me and You. 1997 platinum with I Will Stand.1999 double platinum with Everywhere we Go. 2000 known as a legend County singer.

COMPOSER KENNY CHESNEY

Country sound consists of dialect using words and dropping off the final g. The instruments include a string band, fiddle and/or guitar along with the style of singing usually a southern accent and a strained high pitched nasal sound.

Rock comes in a twelve-bar blues form that is faster along with upbeat rhythms and pronounced beats.

Elvis Presley is known as the king of rock and roll.

CARIBBEAN

In 2002 with the release of No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems Kenny added Caribbean Style to his music and videos.

SOME OF KENNY’S ALBUMS

2001 1st greatest hits album 2002 No shoes, No shirt, No

problem (rock influenced) 2005 Be As You Are & The

Road and the Radio 2006 Live Those Songs

Again 2007 Just Who I Am 2008 Lucky Old Sun 2010 Hemingway Whiskey

Music example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icU13lw8gBQ

MARRIED

Renee Zellweger on May 9, 2005 four short months later they were called it off and got an annulment.

RECOGNITION

2006 and 2007 honored as entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards

Later that year in September Kenny was nominated for 7 CMA Awards Two of the nominations were for the songs Every Other Weekend and Shiftwork.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqIRpnsUvP4

RECENT

2010 Hemingway’s Whiskey 2012 Welcome to the

Fishbowl 2013 Life on a Rock

REFERENCES

http://www.biography.com/people/kenny-chesney-12985738

http://www.people.com/people/kenny_chesney/biography/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Chesney