Highlights from the career of legendary musician Jimmy Buffett
Buffett popularized beach bum soft rock and turned that celebration of loafing into a billion-dollar empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffet is on March 26, 1975. Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died, Friday, Sept. 1.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singer Jimmy Buffett has a bowl of stone crabs at a Florida Audubon Society fundraiser for the Endangered Species Fund in Miami, March 20, 1983.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singer Jimmy Buffet performs barefooted with his band The Coral Reefers on the NBC "Today" television show summer concert series in New York's Rockefeller Plaza, on June 25, 2004.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Saturday, May 6, 2006.THE KEY WEST CITIZEN VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett takes a break during a set of music at his Margaritaville Cafe in Key West, Fla in Feb. 12, 2009.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jimmy Buffett performs at his sister's restaurant in Gulf Shores, Ala., on June 30, 2010.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band perform on the Acura Stage during the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the New Orleans Fairgrounds.FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU VIA AP
In this Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett performs before his fans on Duval Street in Key West, Fla.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett joins Allen Toussaint at Jazz Fest 2014 in New Orleans, La. Saturday, May 3, 2014.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett performs on the Acura Stage during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the Fairgrounds in New Orleans Sunday, April 26, 2015.INVISION VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett performs at the after party for the premiere of "Jurassic World" in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2015.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett performs at the Link Stryjewski Foundation Bal Masque at the Orpheum Theatre. Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016.INVISION VIA AP
This July 29, 2016 file photo shows Jimmy Buffett performing on NBC's "Today" show in New York.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singer Jimmy Buffett during a "Get Out To Vote" speech for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Monday Nov. 7, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett, left, tries out a seat at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans on Monday, June 12, 2017.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett talks about the premiere of "Escape to Margaritaville" at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans on Monday, June 12, 2017.INVISION VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett, center, members of the cast and production team are seen during the curtain call following the Broadway opening night of "Escape to Margaritaville" at the Marquis Theatre on Thursday, March 15, 2018, in New York.THE TIMES-PICAYUNE / THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP
Jimmy Buffett performs on the Acura Stage during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Sunday, May 5, 2019.THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Jimmy Buffett thanks the capacity crowd at the Coffee Butler Amphitheater on Feb. 9 during a string of four shows in Key West, Fla.