Kenny Chesney

Up to date country Singer Kenny Chesney didn't have the direct breakout achievement that numerous of his gazes enjoyed upon signing with foremost marks, but step-by-step built up a significant following via hard work, pop-friendly ballads, and a charming, average-guy persona. Chesney was born in Knoxville, TN, in 1968 and increased in the close by little village of Luttrell, better known as the dwelling of Chet Atkins. He increased up hearing to both homeland and rock & roll, but didn't get serious about music until college, when he revised trading at East Tennessee State University. He obtained a guitar as a Christmas present and set about accomplishing, and was shortly accomplishing with the school bluegrass band. He shortly started composing pieces of music as well and performed for tips in local venues -- most often a Mexican bistro -- every evening he could; additionally, he managed to deal 1,000 exact replicates of a self-released demo album. After graduation in 1991, he moved to Nashville and became the resident entertainer at The Turf, a rougher honky tonk in the city's historic district. While he profited know-how, it wasn't the sort of location where he'd be found out, and in 1992, he moved on to a announcing deal with Acuff-Rose. From there he set down a record agreement with Capricorn and issued his debut album, In My Wildest aspirations, in late 1993.

Unfortunately for Chesney, Capricorn wasn't much of a country mark; not only was the album underpromoted, but the label's homeland partition closed down absolutely not long after its release. Still, it traded 100,000 exact replicates and caught the attention of some big-time foremost labels. Chesney ended up signing with RCA subsidiary BNA, which issued All I Need to understand in 1995. The album provided him his first two peak Ten hits in the name pathway and "Fall in Love." His follow-up, 1996's Me and You, became his first album to proceed proceedld, thanks to two number two singles in the title pathway and "When I Close My Eyes." Released in 1997, I Will Stand was another gold-selling effort that gave Chesney his first-ever number one hit in "She's Got It All," in addition to another number two with "That's Why I'm Here." His big-time innovation, although, came with 1999's universal We Go, which traded over two million copies and spawned two number one strikes with "You Had Me from Hello" and "How eternally Feels"; it furthermore featured another peak Ten lone in "What I Need to Do," and another, "She conceives My Tractor's Sexy," that just missed. In 2000, Chesney handed out his first utmost strikes compilation, and two freshly noted pieces of music -- "I Lost It" and "Don't Happen two times" -- went to number three and number one, respectively.

utmost strikes became Chesney's second directly double-platinum release and topped the homeland LP charts. He pursued it with the all-new No top, No footwear, No difficulty in early 2002, which provided him his strongest commercial presentation yet. It, too, hit number one on the country album charts and rotated off four peak Ten records in "Young," the number one "The Good Stuff," the Bill Anderson co-write "A Lot of Things Different," and "Big Star." A Christmas album plugged the gap for 2003, and he returned powerfully with 2004's When the Sun proceeds Down, which won in the Album of the Year class at the Country melodies Awards. He repeated the win, this time as Entertainer of the Year, with Be as You Are (Songs from an Old azure Chair). Chesney discovered himself the subject of much tabloid fodder in 2005 with his surprise wedding ceremony to player Renée Zellweger (he had created 1999's "You Had Me from Hello" after observing Zellweger in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire). The pair divide that same year, citing irreconcilable differences, and Chesney released the chart-topping The street and the Radio in November. In the years that followed, Chesney kept busy, issuing reside: reside Those pieces of music Again in 2006 and Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates in 2007. In April 2010, Chesney and controller Joe Thomas released the 3D concert movie Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D. Taken from his 2009 Sun town Carnival Tour, the movie encompassed 23 songs from six stadium shows, shot in 3D, interspersed with meetings and dwelling videos. A absolutely new studio album, Hemingway's Whiskey, named after a friend Clark recital, furthermore appeared in 2010. His 13th studio album, Welcome to the Fishbowl, reached in 2012. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi 

Formed:

Knoxville, TN

1969