Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Kenny Chesney Highlight GMA Summer Concert Series : April 29, 2013

“Get ready to party with ‘Good Morning America’ every Friday this summer!” That’s what ABC is saying about it’s upcoming annual summer concert series, and this year the ...

Kenny Chesney to Open Austin’s New Tower Amphitheatre April 5 : January 24, 2013

The brand new Tower Amphitheater in Austin will open with a bang as Kenny Chesney will be the first act to perform at the venue. The concert will take place April 5, and also wi ...

Kenny Chesney, Avett Brothers Headline 2013 Tortuga Music Festival : December 12, 2012

The first ever Tortuga Music Festival will feature Kenny Chesney and the Avett Brothers. The event will be held on the beach Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on April 13-14, 2013, and the ...

Kenny Chesney Tours with Eric Church, Eli Young Band in 2013 : November 08, 2012

Kenny Chesney has announced the initial dates of his 2013 headlining tour, and this time he’ll be bringing along Eric Church and Eli Young Band to provide support. The “No S ...

Rumors Link Eric Church with Kenny Chesney for 2013 Tour : September 19, 2012

Eric Church will be taking some time off from touring in 2013, but it appears he might still have some exciting news up his sleeve. Rumors are now rampant that Church will head out ...

Kenny Chesney Brings Free Concert to New Jersey June 20 : June 11, 2012

All “Jersey Shore” jokes aside, Kenny Chesney is getting ready to play a free concert on, well, the Jersey shore. The singer-songwriter will head to the Garden State to play ...

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. Kenny Chesne ...

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 part of the B ...

Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Kenny Chesney Sign on for iHeartRadio in Las Vegas : July 11, 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 a lineup th ...

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 one act o ...

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 in five y ...

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. Organizers ...

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 for this co ...

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 Kentucky Derb ...

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 no major ...

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.