Jimmy Buffett‘s web site has revealed the legendary singer-songwriter and entrepreneur’s reason behind loss of life.
The 76-year-old musician handed away at his house in Sag Harbor on Lengthy Island, New York, on Friday (Sept. 1) from pores and skin most cancers, in response to an announcement on his web site, which was up to date after the preliminary information of his loss of life on Saturday.
The “Margaritaville” singer had been battling Merkel cell pores and skin most cancers for 4 years, the put up reads. The illness if a uncommon kind of pores and skin most cancers that often seems as a single painless lump on sun-exposed pores and skin and tends to unfold shortly to different components of the physique, in response to the Nationwide Most cancers Institute and the Mayo Clinic.
Buffett continued performing whereas present process most cancers therapies, in response to the assertion. His final efficiency was a shock 45-minute set throughout a Mac McAnally live performance in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on July 2.
The information of Buffett’s loss of life was confirmed on his web site and social media accounts. He was “surrounded by his household, pals, music and canine,” in response to his website.
Famend for his wildly enthusiastic audiences, generally known as “Parrotheads,” Buffett — a former correspondent for Billboard journal — had 13 Billboard Sizzling 100 charting singles, together with seven high 40 hits and one high 10, in addition to 40 entries on the Billboard 200 albums chart all through his profession.
He additionally constructed a billion-dollar private fortune with a sequence of Margaritaville and LandShark Bar & Grill eating places throughout the U.S., in addition to licensing agreements for Margaritaville tequila, footwear, cruises, pre-packaged meals objects and an Atlantic Metropolis on line casino.
