Jimmy Buffett, greatest identified for his laid-back Key West pop anthems like “Margaritaville” and cultivating an empire of devoted “Parrot Heads,” has died. The information was confirmed on his official web site, which learn: “Jimmy handed away peacefully on the evening of September 1st surrounded by his household, associates, music and canine. He lived his life like a music until the final breath and will likely be missed past measure by so many.” The reason for dying was lymphoma, TMZ reviews. Buffett was 76.

Buffett was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1946 and raised in Alabama. Within the early phases of his profession, Buffett moved to Nashville to pursue a profession in nation music. He signed to Barnaby Information and launched one album, 1970’s Down To Earth, which featured the one “The Christian?” Buffett recorded one other album for Barnaby, Excessive Cumberland Jubilee, which the label “misplaced” and conveniently discovered once more as soon as Buffett turned a family title.

Buffett later moved to Key West, Florida, and developed his beachy, soft-tropical pop/rock persona. Signing to ABC-Dunhill Information, Buffett launched White Sport Coat And A Pink Crustacean in 1973 — the album featured a cheeky music known as “Why Don’t We Get Drunk.” The following 12 months, Buffett launched Dwelling And Dying In 3/4 Time, which featured the one “Come Monday.”

It wouldn’t be till 1977 that Buffett hit the High Ten with “Margaritaville,” which appeared on Adjustments In Latitudes, Adjustments In Attitudes, which capitulated him to fame. His 1978 album Son Of A Son Of A Sailor featured one other hit, “Cheeseburger In Paradise,” which peaked at #32.

Within the ’80s, Buffett turned a touring sensation and launched a slew of yearly albums (1981’s Coconut Telegraph, 1982’s Someplace Over China, 1983’s One Specific Harbour, 1984’s Riddles In The Sand, 1985’s Final Mango In Paris, and 1986’s Floridays, amongst others).

In 1985, Buffett opened a “Margaritaville” retailer in Key West, and in 1987, he opened the Margaritaville Cafe. In 1989, the primary “Parrothead” membership was based in Atlanta. The time period really goes again to 1985 when Buffett, who was taking part in on the Timberwolf Amphitheater in Cincinnati, commented on how his devoted followers tended to put on Hawaiian shirts and parrot hats. Timothy B. Schmit, who was then a member of the Coral Reefer Band, used the time period “Parrot Head” to explain them — a play on the Grateful Useless’s “Useless Heads.” In 2011, there have been 239 Parrothead chapters within the US alone. The annual “Assembly Of The Minds” occasion in Key West additionally attracts hundreds of Parrotheads every year.

“When I discovered Key West and the Caribbean, I wasn’t actually profitable but,” Buffett informed the Washington Put up in 1989. “However I discovered a life-style, and I knew that no matter I did must work round my life-style.”

Buffett additionally wrote three best-selling books in his profession, together with 1989’s Tales From Margaritaville, 1992’s The place Is Joe Service provider?, and his 1998 memoir A Pirate Appears At Fifty. Previous to his dying, Buffett stated that he had deliberate to jot down an in-depth autobiography when he was about 86, which might have been in 2032.

Buffett was closely concerned in all elements of the leisure trade — he famously wrote “I Don’t Know (Spicoli’s Theme)” for Quick Instances At Ridgemont Excessive, “Hey, Texas” for the 1980 John Travolta film City Cowboy; and “If I Have To Eat Somebody (It Would possibly As Properly Be You)” for the animated movie FernGully: The Final Rainforest. Buffett additionally made cameo appearances in motion pictures corresponding to Repo Man, Hook, and Congo, plus TV exhibits like CBS’ Hawaii 5-0 reboot. In 2015, Buffett made a cameo in 2015’s Jurassic World, the place he’s seen holding two margaritas whereas dinosaurs are set unfastened within the park.

Buffett was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 2006 and received two Nation Music Affiliation awards throughout his profession. He was twice nominated for Grammy Awards: Finest Nation Collaboration With Vocals for 2004’s “Hey Good Lookin’” with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, and George Strait (featured on the License To Chill album) and Finest Nation Collaboration With Vocals for 2003’s “It’s 5 O’Clock Someplace” with Alan Jackson.