Country rock singer Jimmy Buffett is not exactly dominant figure in pop music, but is still an enduring star who with his strumming contemplative, boozy tunes about sailors, dreamers and lowlifes with themes like "Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful" and "Cheeseburger in Paradise", has enjoyed a long and varied career. He has a fanatical, but amiable, fan following known as "Parrotheads." The younger sect is known as "Parakeets." Jimmy Buffett was born on December 25, 1946 in Pascogoula, Mississippi, but was raised in Mobile, Alabama. He is a distant cousin of the 2nd world's richest man, Warren Buffett. Jimmy attended college at the University of Southern Mississippi and majored in history received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1969. Later that year, he married his first wife, Margie Washichek, at Spring Hill College in Mobile. A singer-songwriter, comedian, romantic individualist, eccentric and drunkard by the virtue of nature, he dedicated his career to the sea. Being the son of the son of a sailor, there are no qualms that Jimmy's childhood was influenced by ships and the attraction of the ocean. In addition Jimmy's grandfather, James Buffett Sr., captained his own ship, the Chicamauga. The stories told by grandpa to grandson certainly encouraged the songwriter, which became the themes and values throughout many of Jimmy's musical works. He described his grandfather's life in the track "The Captain And The Kid".

Buffett began his career in Nashville, as one of the many country music singers in search of fame. He has certainly built himself an empire of music, books, videos, nightclubs and clothing lines, but the basis of the business empire that keeps him on the Fortune magazine list of highest-earning entertainers. Buffett initially started off in the music industry as a correspondent for Nashville billboard. Working as the Nashville correspondent for Billboard magazine, he built up the contacts that led to his 1970 debut �Down to Earth� for Barnaby Records. The album was not a hit by any means. The album and a later follow-up were not well produced. He then moved to Key West, where he found the mission of his life. There Jimmy became a true party animal and gradually evolved into the beach bum character. He was offered $25,000 to make an album for ABC Records. Signing to ABC-Dunhill Record brought to him an unsavory reputation. Shortly thereafter, Buffett recorded his second album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean. This was his first gallery of nostalgic and ironic characters that stated his benevolence but separated view of life and the world. Though the album achieved only moderate sales, but was indeed among his best. Buffett exposed a more thoughtful side on Living and Dying in 3/4 Time (1974). The song of marital separation "Come Monday," went on to become his first singles-chart entry.

In 1975, Buffett formed the Coral Reefer Band and released Havana Daydreamin'. It featured the uncanny My Head Hurts My Feet Stink; and the most famous of them all, the couplet to laziness and relaxation Margaritaville. His next album His next album, Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes, was arguably the best. Jimmy gained thousands of new fans after the release of this album in 1977. Margaritaville went on to become single US Top 10 hit. Margaritaville is still constantly played at bars till date. During the 1980s started performing in concerts. Buffett reached the US Top 10 with Son Of  A Son Of A Sailor that released in 1978. The same album also featured "Cheeseburger In Paradise", a US pop hit, and "Livingston Saturday Night", which was featured in the movie FM. The best tracks on two of his albums were remakes of standards, "Stars Fell On Alabama" and "On A Slow Boat To China". Floridays (1986), Hot Water (1988), Off To See The Lizard (1989) kept the legend in focus but initiated the slump of artist. Two of the more bizarre albums were Christmas Island, which was a collection of holiday songs and Parakeets, and a collection of Buffett songs sung by children and containing "cleaned-up" lyrics. He released a series of albums in the following seasons primarily for his devoted audience. Fruit Cakes (1994) that included two of his most humorous tracks made this thing apparent that Buffett has started ignoring potential radio and video play and played merely for his fans. The follow-ups of the album were Barometer Soup (1995) and Banana Wind (1996). In spring of 1998, Buffett released a collection of songs from the production of Herman Wouk's novel Don't Stop the Carnival. In 1999 he released Beach House on the Moon and Far Side Of The World in 2002. License to Chill, released on July 13 2004, and sold 238,600 copies in its first week of release. The popularity of the album gave Buffett immense fame. He topped the U.S. pop albums chart for the first time in his three-decade career

Buffet is also a part-owner in two minor league teams: the Fort Myers Miracle and the Madison Black Wolf. An ardent pilot, Jimmy Buffett owns several planes including a Grumman HU-16 "Albatross". Each year he performs to sell out crowds across the country with his Coral Reefer band.