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Kenny Chesney

American musician
Also known as: Kenneth Arnold Chesney
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Virginia (Gini) Gorlinski was Arts and Culture Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She was responsible primarily for subjects related to music and dance but also handled articles concerning Malaysia and...
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Kenny Chesney (born March 26, 1968, Luttrell, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American country-music singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose contemplative ballads and hard-core party songs, onstage energy, approachable character, and sophisticated concert productions made him one of the most popular performers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Chesney spent most of his childhood in the small town where he was born, near Knoxville, Tennessee. His parents divorced when he was just a few years...

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