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☆ In Key West, Where Buffett Met His Muse, the Tributes Flow
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Nancy Klingener | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A small shrine of flowers appeared in front of Margaritaville in Key West, Fla., on Saturday. For residents of the southernmost city in the continental United States, Saturday was a day to mourn and toast the singer who died at 76 on Friday and who, with his 1977 anthem “Margaritaville,” made himself and his onetime home famous. Key Westers posted tributes on social media, dropped well-wishes at the Margaritaville restaurant and store — the Buffett businesses that started here and expanded into an empire of hotels, products like Landshark Lager, and more — and started planning a celebration of Mr. Buffett’s life for Sunday, starting at, naturally, 5 p.m. “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” was a chart-topping country duet Mr. Buffett recorded with the singer Alan Jackson in 2003. Megan Burgess, 55, learned of the singer’s death when a friend texted her at 5:35 a.m. She has lived in Key West for 10 years and first visited 20 years ago — because of Mr. Buffett’s music. She fell in love with the island and started returning every year.

Persons: Jimmy Buffett’s, “, ”, Westers, Buffett, Alan Jackson, Megan Burgess Organizations: Historic, Buffett, Sunday, Key West Locations: Key West, Fla, United States, Key

“Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,” a statement released on his social page reads. “I had to stop in Boston for a check-up but wound up back in the hospital to address some issues that needed immediate attention,” he told his followers in a social media post. Jimmy Buffett performs as part of the 23rd Annual Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 24, 2009, in Mountain View, California. An amiable singer-songwriter with a penchant for clever wordplay, Buffett largely ignored pop music trends and was never a hitmaker or an MTV darling. Before his death, Buffett was preparing to release a new record, with songs previewed weekly on Radio Margaritaville, according to his website.

Persons: Jimmy Buffett, “ Jimmy, “, ”, Buffett, he’d, Tim Mosenfelder, Jane Slagsvol Organizations: CNN, Getty, Key, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Country Music, Radio Margaritaville Locations: Bahamas, Boston, Mountain View , California, Pascagoula , Mississippi, Mobile , Alabama, Key West , Florida, ”

☆ Jimmy Buffett’s Life in Photos
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Jimmy Buffett Wrote In His Memoir. | Anne Steele | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

James William Buffett was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1946. His grandfather, a steamboat captain, told him stories of the high seas, ultimately influencing much of Buffett’s music. Buffett poses for a photo in his sailboat circa 1975 in Key West, Fla. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Persons: James William Buffett, Buffett, Ochs Organizations: Ochs Archives, Getty Locations: Pascagoula , Mississippi, Key West, Fla

☆ Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter, dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Sept 2 (Reuters) - American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, best known for his "Margaritaville" escapist tribute to the tropical life, has died at the age of 76, according to his website on Saturday. "Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs. Buffett made 27 studio albums - with four platinum and eight gold albums - in a career that spanned over five decades and included writing and running a business empire. He is survived by his wife Jane Slagsvol, their two daughters, Sarah and Savannah, and son, Cameron. Reporting by Baranjot Kaur in Bengaluru Editing by John Stonestreet and Frances KerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy, Margaritaville, Buffett, Jane Slagsvol, Cameron, Baranjot Kaur, John Stonestreet, Frances Kerry Organizations: Thomson Locations: Savannah, Bengaluru

☆ Jimmy Buffett, legendary 'Margaritaville' singer, dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Henry Austin | Phil Helsel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Jimmy Buffett of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performs during the 2022 New Orleans & Jazz festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on May 08, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jimmy Buffett, the singer-songwriter who drew millions of fans with his folksy tales of living and loving on tropical sandy beaches, frozen concoction in hand, died Friday night. But it was in Key West, Florida, in the 1970s that Buffett "found his true voice," according to his website. As time went on, Buffett also appeared on TV, movies and his work became a musical. There was also a Broadway show based on Buffett's music, " Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville," which debuted in 2017.

Persons: Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy, Buffett, Hank Williams, Alan Jackson, —, Jerry Jeff Walker, margarita, Tom Selleck, Jimmy Buffett's, Joe Merchant, Jane Slagsvol, Cameron, — Christopher Cichiello Organizations: Reefer, Orleans & Jazz, Forbes, Alabama's Auburn University, University of Southern, Billboard Magazine, Key West, University of Miami, Men's, Associated Press Locations: Orleans, New Orleans , Louisiana, Pascagoula , Mississippi, University of Southern Mississippi, New Orleans, Nashville , Tennessee, Key West , Florida, South Florida, Margaritaville, Pitcairn, Savannah

☆ Jimmy Buffett Was More Than Beaches and Booze
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Jon Pareles | More About Jon Pareles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Jimmy Buffett built a pop-culture empire on the daydream of “wastin’ away again in Margaritaville”: just hanging out on a tropical beach, drink in hand, a little wistful but utterly relaxed. Buffett leveraged it into a major brand for restaurants, resorts, clothing, food and drink, as well as a perpetual singalong on his robust touring circuit, where his devoted fans — the Parrot Heads — gathered eagerly in their Hawaiian shirts. Buffett cannily marketed his good-timey image; it made him a billionaire. He came up with wry song premises like the one behind “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” which starts as the lament of an attempted vegetarian who can’t resist carnivorous impulses. But Buffett’s songwriting wasn’t all smiley and one-dimensional.

Persons: Jimmy Buffett, wastin ’, “, ”, Buffett, Buffett cannily, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Zac Brown, I’ve Locations: Margaritaville ”, Paradise, “, Paris

☆ Fans Remember Jimmy Buffett, ‘a Poet of Paradise’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Rebecca Carballo | More About Rebecca Carballo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I’ll always be grateful for his kindness, generosity, and great performances through the years, including at the White House in 2000,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “My thoughts are with his family, friends, and legion of devoted fans.”Major sports franchises and fellow entertainers also recognized the singer’s death on social media. Mr. Leritz recalled that Mr. Buffett said: “I’ve never done this before. Any tips?” He said he advised Mr. Buffett to treat the scene like a normal conversation — deliver the lines and genuinely listen to what the other actor is saying. Eventually Mr. Leritz pieced together whom he had been talking to, and now, he said, it’s a memory he holds dear.

Persons: “, Jimmy Buffett, Biden, Bill Clinton, “ I’ll, ”, Buffett, Jimmy, Toby Keith, ” Lawrence Leritz, Leritz, didn’t, “ I’ve Organizations: ”, White, White House, Miami Heat N.B.A Locations: American

☆ Don’t Underestimate Jimmy Buffett’s Influence on Style
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Guy Trebay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Odds are the world of capital-F fashion never gave a moment’s thought to Jimmy Buffett, the bard of Margaritaville, who died on Friday at 76. Mr. Buffett, a singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and best-selling author, took a form of laid-back dressing instantly recognizable to anyone who ever hung around a boatyard and made it mainstream both at home and abroad. Not for Mr. Buffett the hippie-adjacent suedes and leathers of his musical contemporaries, nor even the standard-issue double-denim get-ups preferred by pop folk idols of his age, people like James Taylor or Jackson Browne. A lifelong waterman, Mr. Buffett spent his early days propping up bars in Key West. Nobody wears uniforms on Key West, unless you think of a uniform as Bermuda shorts in Easter egg colors; low-slung, faded khakis; flip-flops; and short-sleeved shirts with raucous patterns and squared-off tails.

Persons: Jimmy Buffett, Margaritaville, Buffett, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, waterman Locations: Key, Bermuda

☆ Jimmy Buffett, Roguish Bard of Island Escapism, Is Dead at 76
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Bill Friskics-Warren | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His claim to squandering his wealth notwithstanding, Mr. Buffett proved to be a shrewd manager of his considerable fortune; in 2023, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1 billion. Mr. Buffett was also an accomplished author, one of only six writers, along with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and William Styron, to top both The Times’s fiction and nonfiction best-seller lists. By the time he wrote “Tales from Margaritaville” (1989), the first of his three No. “I could wind up like a lot of my friends did, burned out or dead, or redirect the energy,” he told The Washington Post in 1989. It was fun — all that hard drinking, hard drugging.

Persons: Buffett, Anthony DeCurtis, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Trump, Mr, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Margaritaville ”, “, ”, “ I’m, ” “ Organizations: Forbes, The New York Times, Washington Post Locations: Caribbean

☆ ‘Jamaica Mistaica’: Jimmy Buffett Song Inspired After Plane Sprayed by Gunfire
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Orlando Mayorquin | More About Orlando Mayorquin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jimmy Buffett’s life evokes images of boozy chill-outs by the beach and a certain carefree calm, but in 1996 the singer’s seaplane came under a hail of gunfire in a dramatic encounter with the Jamaican authorities that inspired a song. Buffett’s song “Jamaica Mistaica” is a laid-back account of a dramatic near-death experience in which his plane, Hemisphere Dancer, was mistaken by the Jamaican authorities for a drug-smuggling aircraft. “We flew the plane in, got off, and as the plane took off to go get fuel, we were surrounded by a Jamaican S.W.A.T. team,” Buffett said in a 1996 Rolling Stone interview. “I thought it was a joke until I heard the gunfire.”

Persons: Jimmy Buffett’s, Buffett, Paul David Hewson, Bono, ” Buffett, “ Organizations: singer’s Locations: Jamaica, Negril

☆ Jimmy Buffett, Hospitalized After Bahamas Trip, Cancels Show
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Jimmy Buffett, the singer-songwriter who has built a lucrative lifestyle empire on the basis of beach-bum anthems like “Margaritaville” and “It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere,” canceled a show scheduled for Saturday in Charleston, S.C., after he was hospitalized for an unspecified illness. Mr. Buffett, 76, said in a statement on Thursday that he had a “sudden change of plans this week” after returning from a trip to the Bahamas. “I had to stop in Boston for a checkup but wound up back in the hospital to address some issues that needed immediate attention,” he said. “Growing old is not for sissies, I promise you.”Mr. Buffett said that he would perform again when he is “well enough.”A representative for Mr. Buffett responded to a request for information about his condition by referring to his statement and declined to comment further.

☆ Jimmy Buffett hospitalized, postpones show
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band concert scheduled to be held in Charleston, South Carolina this weekend, has been postponed due to the singer being hospitalized. Buffett announced the news in posts on both his site and on social media. “Two days ago, I was just back from a trip to the Bahamas, thawing out from the California ‘winter tour,’ and chomping at the bit to get to Charleston,” his note reads. “Thank you for your prayers and thoughts, your amazing years of loyalty, and just remember, ‘NOT YET!’” his note ended. Ticket holders will receive emailed information regarding the rescheduled date.

☆ Harry Belafonte, calypso star and civil rights champion, dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Alex Johnson | Diana Dasrath | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Singer Harry Belafonte speaks during a press junket at The Bing Decision Maker Series with the Sing Your Song Cast and Filmmakers on January 22, 2011 in Park City, Utah. American singer Harry Belafonte performing in a recording studio, circa 1957. By the early 1960s, Belafonte had become a force in the civil rights movement. A crowd of over 10,000 civil rights marchers gathers in the Manhattan Garment Center as Harry Belafonte sings at spiritual at a civil rights rally. A capacity audience of civil rights advocates turned out to watch a glittering array of theater personalities perform.

☆ The Mind Behind the Music You Can’t Get Out of Your Head
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Ben Cohen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Nathan HackettWhen the Library of Congress recently enshrined the latest collection of music into the National Recording Registry, there was something for everyone on the list of hits: “Imagine” by John Lennon, “Like a Virgin” by Madonna, “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin, “Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett and “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey. But perhaps the most recognizable of the tunes was one with an unrecognizable title, written by someone whose name you probably haven’t heard, even though billions of people might be familiar with his work.

☆ How the Music of ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Became a Smash Hit
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Ben Cohen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Margaritaville's cruise company just unveiled a $900 pass for nearly unlimited cruises through the end of the year
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Margaritaville at Sea announced a $900 cruise pass that allows travelers to sail on the majority of its 2023 cruises. Margaritaville launched its cruise brand in 2022 with its Margaritaville at Sea Paradise vessel. The cruise line is currently operating nonstop two-night sailings from Florida's Port of Palm Beach to the Bahama's Freeport, Grand Bahama island. But if there's nowhere you'd rather be than on a Margaritaville cruise ship, you could potentially save hundreds of dollars with its newly announced cruise pass. Before its refresh, the ship was known as the Grand Classica, a 30-year-old flagship vessel owned by budget cruise company Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line.

☆ TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has the internet eating out of his hand
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Hallam Bullock | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Well, court filings have laid bare the company's excessive spending habits on luxury estate, hotels and, of course, a yacht. Shou Zi Chew said the average TikTok user was "an adult well past college age." Wall Street says TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew had a "disaster" day in Congress. Wall Street may have dubbed Chew's testimony a "disaster," but by the end of it, Chew had the internet eating out of his hand. Google Bard is already behind in the AI wars.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried's companies racked up a $400,000 DoorDash bill, documents show, after reportedly giving staff $200 a day to spend on food deliveries
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Court documents filed Wednesday show Sam Bankman-Fried's companies spent over $400,000 with DoorDash. FTX US gave employees $200 of DoorDash food credit every day, the FT previously reported. The documents filed in the Delaware bankruptcy court on Wednesday show bills of a combined $403,765 from the food delivery firm to FTX entities. The food delivery company is still owed $46,239 by Alameda, the documents show. Former employees previously told the Financial Times that FTX US gave employees $200 of DoorDash food credits a day.

☆ ExodusPoint's 2022 struggles is a lesson for all of Wall Street: Play the hits
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I shudder to compare some of the greatest artists of our generation to a hedge fund, but I can't help but notice some similarities between their disdain for their biggest hits and ExodusPoint's difficult 2022. The hedge fund, which still holds the industry's largest launch in history, ended the year with fewer assets, employees, and PMs than it started with. The world's biggest hedge fund has a new co-CIO. Ken Griffin, the billionaire owner of hedge fund Citadel, is causing quite the stir over his suggestion that a historic home on a property he owns in Miami be relocated. The firm continues to cut back on the size of a venture-capital fund its raising, The Wall Street Journal reports, with a new goal of $5 billion.

☆ FTX spent nearly $7 million on food and over $15 million on luxury Bahamian hotels in just 9 months, court documents show
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

FTX's Bahamian entity spent nearly $40 million on hotels, food, and travel in just nine months. They show the company spent almost $6 million at a single hotel and $1 million on one caterer. Lawyers pointed out that the crypto exchange's Bahamian company, FTX Digital Markets, generated no customer revenue, but spent lavishly. From January to September 2022, the company spent $15.4 million on luxury hotels and accommodation, the filings say. Almost half of that was spent on catering services, with the largest amount, $1.4 million, spent on catering at the Hyatt.

☆ It turns out Taylor Swift has better due diligence than half of Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Taylor Swift in the "Bejeweled" music video. Taylor Swift has better due diligence than half of Silicon ValleyIt's SBF. Just when you thought the FTX debacle couldn't get any weirder, let's add Taylor Swift into the mix. What Taylor Swift album does Sam Bankman-Fried most identify with? Perhaps the most pressing question, however, as pointed out by senior finance editor Michelle Abrego, is this: How does Taylor Swift have better due diligence practices than half of Silicon Valley?

☆ SBF's Alameda racked up $55,000 Margaritaville debt by snapping up around 20 premium suites for workers, who took bus across tropical island to work, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Insider earlier reported how Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda owed $55,319 to Margaritaville. Employees told Bloomberg that the company used around 20 premium suites for Alameda staff. Staff at the 4-star hotel told Bloomberg that employees of FTX entities stayed there for several months this year, and were generally friendly. Employees told Bloomberg that the company had around 20 suites in One Particular Harbour – a high-end building designed for longer stays, next to the main resort. One resort employee told Bloomberg that they had plans to go out on the town with friends from FTX, but never had the chance after the firm went bankrupt.

☆ Wall Street's most important consultant might be its cloud provider
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider's Bianca Chan explored this trend with a piece on how cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are reimagining themselves as business consultants. Many of the biggest cloud providers have stood up teams focused on interfacing with the C-suite to advise them on how a move to the cloud can be an opportunity to overhaul things. It's not hard to see how this could end up being big business for the cloud providers. Cloud providers still have a long way to go to be a real threat to consultants, but there is potential there. Click here to read more about how cloud providers are becoming the new-age consultants for Wall Street.

☆ FTX owes more than $55,000 to Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville beach resort in the Bahamas, bankruptcy filings show
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Margaritaville beach resort in The Bahamas is seeking $55,319 from Alameda Research. The hotel chain was founded by singer Jimmy Buffett after the success of his song of the same name. Buffett's hotel and restaurant chain is named after his 1977 hit song of the same name, which celebrated the tropical lifestyle. Eight years after its release, he founded a restaurant chain which later expanded to include hotels, and even a $1 billion retirement community in Florida. The resort also provides a service for large meetings and corporate events, and a docking service for yachts.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda Research owes more than $50,000 to a Bahamas resort inspired by Jimmy Buffett's 'Margaritaville'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( April Joyner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A filing on Monday shows that Alameda Research owes $55,319 to Margaritaville's Bahamas resort. Alameda Research, Sam Bankman-Fried's trading firm, filed for bankruptcy in November alongside FTX. That's not great news for the Margaritaville Beach Resort in Nassau, Bahamas, to which Bankman-Fried's bankrupt trading firm, Alameda Research, owes more than $50,000. Unlike secured creditors, unsecured creditors do not have access to collateral that they can seize when the money they are owed goes unpaid. Alameda Research and Margaritaville have not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.

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