Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Pals: Dwell from the Gulf Coast, a live performance introduced by CMT at on the seashore on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Pals: Dwell from the Gulf Coast, a live performance introduced by CMT at on the seashore on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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The favored singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett died on Friday after dwelling with Merkel cell pores and skin most cancers for 4 years, in keeping with an announcement posted to his web site on Sunday.

Buffett, 76, was well-known for his beach-themed smooth rock music, with hits together with “Margaritaville” and “It is 5 O’Clock Someplace.”

“He continued to carry out throughout therapy, enjoying his final present, a shock look in Rhode Island, in early July,” the submit learn.

Merkel cell carcinoma is a uncommon type of pores and skin most cancers that has a excessive threat of recurring and might metastasize inside two to 3 years of being identified, in keeping with the Pores and skin Most cancers Basis.

About 3,000 new circumstances of Merkel cell carcinoma are identified annually within the U.S., the group mentioned.

The Mayo Clinic notes that Merkel cell carcinoma most frequently seems in older individuals, and the chance of growing it may be elevated by long-term solar publicity or a weak immune system.

Buffett postponed a live performance in Could after being hospitalized to handle what he mentioned had been “some points that wanted instant consideration.”

His household requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations may very well be make to Singing for Change — Buffett’s basis — in addition to Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Most cancers Institute and the MD Anderson Most cancers Middle.

Born in Pascagoula, Miss., on Christmas Day in 1946, Buffett was additionally an writer and enterprise proprietor, with a constellation of manufacturers to his identify together with Margaritaville eating places and Land Shark beer.