Kenny Chesney Biography

Biography

Country music singer Kenny Chesney, who is a Boston Red Sox fanatic, began his life in a very small town. His school teacher father David Chesney and hair dresser mother Karen Chandler sent him into a small elementary before he attended Gibbs High School and later studied at East Tennessee State University, majored in marketing. At college, he once joined the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity while working several jobs despite his activity at college. He previously worked as a valet parking, telemarketing, and mail sorter in his spare time.

Kenny, who was born Kenneth Arnold Chesney on March 26, 1968, in Knoxville, Tenesee, USA, has since little been passionate about music. Nevertheless, his desire for music was started after he got his first guitar as a Christmas present when he was 19. Kenny biggest musical influence is, in fact, the America's most successful hit maker Conway Twitty.

In 1995, Kenny released an album "All I Need to Know" with its major hit "Fall in Love" which reached the Top 10. Several of his following hits unfortunately failed in the market, but his two albums namely "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" (2002) and "When the Sun Goes Down" (2004) had ...

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both made him a household name. His 1995 single "The Tin Man," in addition, was listed in his "Greatest Hits" album released in 2000. The singer luckily avoided from being caught in the 9/11 tragedy because the video shoot for "The Tin Man" single that formerly located between the two towers was delayed due to equipment difficulties.

As a result of his astounding accomplishment in music, Kenny, who will take part in the 40th anniversary of the Academy of Country Music with other celebs, including Reba McEntire and Montgomery Gent, has been granted several awards. In 2002 he received a CMT Flameworthy Video Music Award for Video of the Year and Male Video of the Year with the single "Young." Later in 2004, he achieved another CMT Flameworthy Video Music Award for Male Video of the Year for "There Goes My Life" and Hottest Video of the Year for his album "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems." In the same year, the singer who enjoys playing golf, watching movies and reading, also won a Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year through "When the Sun Goes Down."

Kenny, who once was forced to ...