Jimmy Buffett, legendary 'Margaritaville' singer, dies at 76
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Jimmy Buffet i hope you find cheeseburgers and margaritas in Paradise RIP legend 1946-2023
Fellow country singer Jerry Jeff Walker first let him stay at his Coconut Grove home, and then they drove in a 1947 Packard to Key West, he told graduating students at the University of Miami, where he received an honorary doctorate in music in May 2015.
“Needless to say, my life took a big and wonderful change towards South Florida, which has a lot to do with why I’m standing here today,” he said while wearing flip-flops under the academic robes.
Touring and recording with the Coral Reefer Band, he would go on to make 27 studio albums — four went platinum and eight gold — in a career that spanned over five decades.
Buffett also appeared on TV and movies, wrote fiction and nonfiction books and his work became a musical.
He popped up in the film “Jurassic World” as “running park visitor with margarita drinks,” as IMDB put it. He carried two, one in each hand.
And Buffett guest-starred in the Tom Selleck show “Blue Bloods,” playing both himself and a virtual double who posed as the singer and scammed people.
A Broadway show based on his music, “ Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville,” debuted in 2017.
Buffett was also the author of numerous books including “Tales from Margaritaville,” and “A Pirate Looks At Fifty,” as well as “Where Is Joe Merchant?”
In a recent interview, Buffett said his life-long love of reading was down to his mother, Mary Lorraine Buffett, who also wanted him to be a writer.
“I think she knew that for us to read we would see the world as a bigger place than where we grew up, which was a great gift,” he said.
He also dedicated some of his time to charity, starting the “Save he Manatee Club,