Born to Parents David Chesney and Karen Chandler Kenny Chesney's place of birth is Knoxville located in Tennessee, USA. He was born on March 26, 1968, and grew up in Luttrell alongside his little sister. Both siblings were pampered a lot, and their birthday was beautifully celebrated. He was a student of the Gibbs High School and left the school with his graduation in the year 1986. His initial inclination was towards athletics, but it was short lived. Later, after he took bachelor's degree in advertising from the East Tennessee State University, he developed a keen interest in music. The inspiration was a guitar from his mother. During his freshman year and throughout college composed songs and performed in local clubs.
A whopping 1000 copies were sold from his first album which he recorded while still in college in the year 1989. After completing his studies from the, he moved to Nashville and took a job as a performer in the Turf- a bar. Later he worked as a Lyricist in 1992 for Acuff-Rose. Eventually, he was taken in by a recording company known as Capricorn. This venture helped and inspired Chensey to release his maiden album. It was named In My Wildest Dreams and released in the year 1993.It was a decent start for him with thousands of copies sold. He then got elevated opportunities to work with BNA records. With this contract, he released his second album in the year 1995. It was named All I Need to Know, and it proved to be a blockbuster as two of its songs were included in the Top 10 hits of that year.
Later, along with BNA, he released his second album Me and You in the year 1996. He also bagged the Top New Male Vocalist Award in the year 1997. It took his budding popularity to the next level. In the year 1999, he released an album named Everywhere We Go, one of his most successful albums till date. How Forever Feels, You Had Me from Hello and What I Need to Do are his other creative pieces which hit the market and went on to be landmark hits. In the year 2002, he got another beautiful new song which topped the list; it was titled The Good Stuff from the album No Shoes. No Shirt, No Problems. This year also brought him another award, it was the ACM Award for the Best Male Vocalist. In the year 2004, He did bag the CMA Award for the Entertainer of the Year and for his album he also won Album of the Year in the same year.
Kenny also has a philanthropic side and it is evident from his associations with various charity organisations. These include V Foundation which is progressively working towards finding a remedy for cancer. Another charitable work done by him is helping farming families. He got married to wife Renee Zellweger but soon after four months their marriage ended in divorce. At present Kenny lives in the city of Tennessee. He also has houses all over the USA. His biography reveals he earns a handsome salary and his net worth stands up to 42 million USD.
| Birth Date: | 26 Mar, 1968 |
| Age: | 52 yrs |
| Occupations: | Songwriter |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Knoxville |
| Education: | East Tennessee State University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American country music singer/songwriter |
| Spouse: | Renée Zellweger |
| Net Worth 2021: | 180 million |
