Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow Pay Tribute at Johnny Cash Concert : March 09, 2012

Some of the biggest names in the music world have signed on to pay tribute to the legendary Johnny Cash and celebrate what would have been his 80th birthday this year. Ke [...]

Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean Lead ACM Nominations : January 27, 2012

The Academy of Country Music (ACM) nominees were released yesterday, and Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean lead the pack with nine nominations and six nominations, respectiv [...]

Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw Unite for Summer Stadium Tour : November 14, 2011

Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, who toured together extensively in the early 2000s, will reunite next summer for a string of dates that will take them across America as par [...]

Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Kenny Chesney Sign on for iHeartRadio in Las Vegas : July 12, 2011

The new iHeartRadio Festival is being billed as radio history's biggest ever live music event (whatever that means). Organizers have pulled all the stops out to deliver [...]

Kenny Chesney Tabbed as Headliner of Final 4 JamFest : March 14, 2011

Kenny Chesney, star of the country charts, is going to be featured at Houston’s Final Four’s Capital One JamFest. The JamFest is a three-day music festival that is [...]

Taylor, Kenny Chesney Wants His Money Back : January 25, 2011

Kenny Chesney from 2004-2008 won the Entertainer of the Year award eight times.  From 2005 to 2008 he won ACM's honor four times in a row, and he won the CMA in 2004, 20 [...]

Kenny Chesney Expands Tour by 40-Dates Through Summer : January 12, 2011

Kenny Chesney, after taking the year off from touring in 2010, in 2011 is returning in a big way to the road. He recently announced a total of 41 new amphitheater and ar [...]

Kenny Chesney Becomes Producer for ESPN Football Documentary : January 10, 2011

Award winning musician Kenny Chesney adds another notable entry into his resume, sports documentary filmmaker. Chesney worked with ESPN to produce “The Color Orange: [...]

Kenny Chesney Hits the Stadium Circuit with Zac Brown Band in 2011 : November 05, 2010

In 2010, Kenny Chesney, country singer, took a break from touring extensively, which was rare for him.  He is promising that his tour in 2011 will be the biggest for him [...]

Farm Aid Returns with Heavyweights Kenny Chesney, Dave Matthews : August 10, 2010

This year's lineup for the benefit show Farm Aid, which will include mainstays Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Willie Nelson, recently got much bigger. [...]

Kenny Chesney is Going to Vegas Baby! : January 24, 2010

Kenny Chesney said that he’d be largely be concert free in 2010 save for a handful of one off festival-type shows. I guess the allure of Las Vegas was simply too much f [...]

Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban Step Up as Headliners for Country Thunder : December 22, 2009

The Country Thunder concerts next year in Wisconsin and Arizona will be featuring headliners Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban, according to the website for the event. The [...]

Churchill Downs Plays Host to HullabaLOU 3-Day Music Festival : November 30, 2009

When you've got a sprawling complex like Churchill Downs, you've got to figure out how to get more use out of it than a few horse races a year. The home of the famous Ken [...]

Kenny Chesney Takes 2010 Off from Touring : September 17, 2009

Kenny Chesney is one of the hardest road men in music. He's been touring solid since 2004, and evidently that toll has been wearing on him of late. Chesney announced that [...]

Kenny Chesney Revs Up Summer Concert Dates with Keith Urban : January 22, 2008

Country music fans in Foxborough, MA will be having a hell of a good time come July 26 next year when two of country music’s hottest artists, Kenny Chesney and Keith Ur [...]

kenny chesney Biography

The American country music songwriter and singer Kenny Chesney was born in Johnson City, Tennessee on March 26, 1968. Chesney has released 15 albums. Fourteen out of the 15 have been certified by the RIAA as gold or higher. Chesney has also produced over thirty Top 10 singles on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. Twenty of those songs have made it to the No. 1 spot on the chart.

Chesney over the course of his career has won numerous awards, including from the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, Country Music Television, American Music Awards, People's Choice Awards, Billboard Music Awards and French Country Music Awards.

Kenny Chesney has won six awards from the Academy of Country Music, including four Entertainer of the Year Awards in a row from 2005-2008, along with six awards from the Country Music Association. Chesney is one of country music's most popular touring artists and sells out venues he is performing in on a regular basis. His “Flip-Flop Summer Tour” was country music's highest grossing tour of 2007.

Chesney won the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award four times: 2004, 2006, 2007 and then in 2008. Chesney has won other notable awards, including the 1997 Academy of Country Music New Male Vocalist of the Year, Top Male Vocalist of the Year in 2002 and in 2005 the Triple Crown Award.