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Jimmy Buffett, the son of James Delaney J.D. Buffett Jr. and Mary Loraine Peets Buffett, grew up along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay and graduated high school from McGill Institute for Boys in Mobile, Alabama in 1964.
Jimmy Buffett started playing guitar during his college years at Auburn University and The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1969. He was initiated into the fraternity Kappa Sigma at the University of Southern Mississippi, although he was a pledge of Sigma Pi at Auburn. After graduation, Buffett worked as a correspondent for Billboard Magazine in Nashville.
He later married his first wife, Margie Washichek, at Spring Hill College in Mobile.
Buffetts musical career began during the late 1960s in Nashville, Tennessee as a country artist. He recorded his first album, the folk rock Down to Earth in 1970.
Buffett started busking for tourists in New Orleans and went to Key West on a busking expedition with country music singer Jerry Jeff Walker. He later moved to Key West and established the easy-going beach bum persona for which he is known.
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, Havana Daydreamin' and Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes featuring the breakthrough hit song Margaritaville were Buffetts next albums that came out in 1973, 1976 and 1977 respectively.
Jimmy Buffett was popular concerts draw during the 1980s and made more money off his tours. He released more albums and branched into writing and merchandising.
In 1985, Jimmy Buffett opened the first of the Margaritaville restaurants in Key West, bringing new visibility and life to the Margaritaville name. He owns or licenses the Margaritaville Cafe and Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant chains. Jimmy Buffett also loves baseball and was part-owner of Fort Myers Miracle and the Madison Black Wolf, two minor league teams.
Buffett has shifted to a more relaxed schedule and touring just for 20-30 dates and playing only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Purchasing tickets is difficult with most of his concerts selling out in minutes. Between his restaurants, album sales, and tours, he earns an estimated $100 million a year.
Christmas Island, a collection of holiday songs and Parakeets, a collection of Jimmy Buffett songs sung by children were his out-of-character albums.
In 1997, Buffett along with novelist Herman Wouk, created a short-lived musical based on Wouk's novel, Don't Stop the Carnival. The play ran for six weeks in Miami and its soundtrack released in 1998.
It's Five Oclock Somewhere is his partial duet with Alan Jackson that came in 2003 and became a number one hit on the country charts.
License to Chill released on July 13, 2004, sold 238,600 copies in its first week of release and with it Buffett topped the U.S. pop albums chart for the first time in his three-decade career.
Jimmy Buffett planned a cooperative project to produce his own beer with the Anheuser-Busch brewing company in 2006. Calling it Land Shark Lager, the label of the bottle will most likely feature a shark fin.
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