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June 5, 2008: "Rumors About Kenny Chesney's Engagement Are Untrue"
Rumors have been circulating recently that country singer Kenny Chesney is engaged. Kenny Chesney is shooting down the engagement report. According to People website Chesney's rep said, "Kenny Chesney is not getting married. He's not engaged. He's not planning on being engaged any time in the near future. In fact, he was surprised by the news and isn't sure how or why anyone would've gotten that idea." Kenny Chesney, 40, recently told People website that he enjoys being a bachelor. "I enjoy everything that comes along with it," he said. *** June 4, 2008: "Kenny Chesney After ACM Win: Fan Votes Shouldn’t Decide" Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year for a fourth straight time Sunday, then promptly took issue with the way the Academy of Country music awarded the honor: through fan votes. For the first time in the show’s 43 years, the top prize - traditionally decided by ACM members - was determined through online voting. With the win, Kenny Chesneyties Garth Brooks and trails only Alabama, which won five in a row. Chesney said immediately backstage that he thought fans should be included, just not by voting for the show’s most important award. “The entertainer of the year trophy is supposed to represent heart and passion and an amazing amount of sacrifice, commitment and focus,” he said. “That’s the way Garth won it four times, that’s the way I won it, that’s the way (George) Strait won it, Reba (McEntire), Alabama all those years. That’s what it’s supposed to represent.” He said his complaint is directed at the industry, not the fans - and that the method amounted to “complete disrespect” of the artists, saying the academy turned the award “into a sweepstakes to see who can push people’s buttons the hardest on the Internet.” Messages left for officials with the Academy of Country Music Awards were not immediately returned Sunday night. *** May 21, 2008: "Kenny Chesney: Renée Zellweger Is The Sweetest Soul I've Ever Met" Kenny Chesney claims nothing about his marriage to Renee Zellweger made him happy. Kenny Chesney married Renee in 2005 but the couple split just four months later. Kenny Chesney now admits he wasn't ready to tie the knot, but says Renee is "the sweetest soul I've ever met". Describing the brief union as a "life lesson", he added: "There was nothing that made me happy. You can't fall in love as hard and fast as we did and not have some residual effects." Kenny Chesney and Renee have remained good friends since the split, and have been spotted having dinner together on several occasions. *** Music country singer and songwriter Kenny Chesney picture(s)/pic(s), wallpaper and photo gallery, albums covers pictures. Birth name: Kenneth Arnold Chesney. Born: March 26, 1968 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Kenny Chesney biography (bio): Kenneth Arnold Chesney is an American country music singer-songwriter. Having made his debut on an independent record label in 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. To date, he has also produced thirty Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, twelve of which reached Number One. In addition, Chesney has received six ACM (including three consecutive Entertainer of the Year Awards), as well as two CMA awards. Chesney is also one of the most popular touring acts in country music, regularly selling out the venues at which he performs. Early life: Kenny Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was raised in Luttrell, Tennessee, and attended Gibbs High School in Corryton, Tennessee, where he was a receiver on the football team. Chesney studied at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, joining the Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity and he was a member of the ETSU mens ensemble. Chesney played tunes at local places around Johnson City like Chucky's Trading Post (a small Mexican restaurant), Quarterbacks BBQ, and Rafters. He recorded his first album in 1989 at Classic Recording Studio in Bristol, Virginia. A thousand copies were made and Chesney sold them at his busking gigs, using the money from album sales to help buy a new Martin guitar. In 1990, Chesney graduated from ETSU with a degree in advertising After graduation, he headed to Nashville, where he performed at every venue he could, including HounDogs. He also did regular gigs at a southern club called Turf. After making the rounds of the music publishers in Nashville, Chesney got a contract in 1992 with BMI and Opryland Music Group. Career: Early years: Kenny's first album, In My Wildest Dreams, was released on the independent Capricorn Records label in 1994. The album's lead-off singles, "The Tin Man" and "Whatever It Takes", both reached the lower regions of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. The album sold about 10,000 copies before the label folded. Shortly afterward, Chesney signed to BNA Records, which released his album All I Need to Know in 1995. The album produced three hit singles: "Fall in Love" and the title track, which reached Top Ten, and "Grandpa Told Me So", which peaked at #23. "The Tin Man" was also included on this album, although it was not re-released as a single at the time. 1996 saw the release of Me and You, Chesney's second major-label album. Although its lead-off single peaked just outside the Top 40 on the country charts, the album's title track (reprised from All I Need to Know) and the single "When I Close My Eyes" both peaked at #2 on the Billboard country charts, the latter also reaching Number One on the country charts of Radio & Records. A cover of singer-songwriter Mac McAnally's 1990 single "Back Where I Come From" was also included on this album; although Chesney's version was never released as a single, it has become a staple of his concerts. I Will Stand, Chesney's third album for BNA, was released in 1997. The album's lead-off single, "She's Got It All", became his first Number One single on Billboard, spending three weeks at the top of the country charts. The album's second single, "A Chance", peaked just shy of Top Ten, while its follow-up, "That's Why I'm Here", went to #2 on Billboard in 1998. ("That's Why I'm Here" reached Number One on Radio & Records, giving Chesney his third Number One overall.) Also in 1998, Chesney recorded a limited-edition single titled "Touchdown Tennessee". The single was a tribute to John Ward, a former broadcaster for the University of Tennessee Volunteers' football team; St. Jude's Children's Hospital and to the John Ward Scholarship Fund received a portion of the single's sales. Mid-career n January 2005, Chesney released the album Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair, supporting the album with his Somewhere in the Sun Tour and in November 2005. The album was a lower key affair sonically than most of Chesney's recent albums. Chesney released his second album of that year, The Road and The Radio, with the song "Living in Fast Forward" being one of the hits from the album. In February 2006, Chesney was presented with a plaque commemorating his sales of 25 million albums. On May 23, 2006, Chesney was honored at the Academy of Country Music Awards as Entertainer of the Year. Present-day: Chesney, along with Tim McGraw, contributed to a version of Tracy Lawrence's song "Find Out Who Your Friends Are", which can be found on Lawrence's album For the Love. Although the official single version featured only Lawrence's vocals, the version with McGraw and Chesney received significant airplay, helping to boost the single to Number One. Chesney also co-wrote Rascal Flatts' 2007 single, "Take Me There", which is the lead-off to their album Still Feels Good. In September 11, 2007, Kenny released the album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates. The album's lead-off single, "Never Wanted Nothing More", became Chesney's twelfth Number One on the Billboard country charts. On the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending September 15, 2007, Chesney's single "Don't Blink" debuted at #16, setting a new record for the highest debut on that chart since the inception of SoundScan electronic tabulation in 1990. This record was broken one week later by Garth Brooks' song "More Than a Memory", which debuted at Number One on the same chart. Personal life: Chesney met actress Renée Zellweger in January 2005 and married her on May 9 of the same year, in Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. It was the first marriage for both. Chesney stated, " I remember coming back from the wedding and we landed in Little Rock, Arkansas. I had a show. We didn't have a honeymoon, you know? Welcome to Little Rock, baby. Happy Honeymoon. " On September 15, 2005, after only four months of marriage, Zellweger filed for an annulment, citing fraud as the reason, as both Chesney and Zellweger believed that "fraud" was the broadest of the available legal reasons for which annulments could be filed in California. In an interview taped for the February 18, 2007, episode of 60 Minutes, Chesney told Anderson Cooper: " The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like... that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn't. " |
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