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Dionne Warwick performs at MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Dionne Warwick, Cher, Foreigner, Mary J. Blige inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

By Mark Kennedy - Associated Press

Florida Republican Sen. Gayle Harrell shows samples of a proposed specialty license plate to honor iconic Florida singer Jimmy Buffet, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File)

Looking for a cheeseburger in paradise? You could soon find one along Jimmy Buffett Highway

By Brendan Farrington - Associated Press

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, Prigozhin's rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded on Aug 23, 2023. (AP Photo, file)

Year in review: Influential people who died in 2023

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, Prigozhin's rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded on Aug 23, 2023. (AP Photo, file)

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2023

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

Jimmy Buffett performs at the after party for the premiere of "Jurassic World" in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2015. “Margaritaville” singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has died at age 76. A statement on Buffett's official website and social media pages says the singer died Friday, Sept. 1, 2023 “surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs”. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

Fans of the late Jimmy Buffett send his 1985 greatest hits album back on the Billboard charts

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Jimmy Buffett performs on the Acura Stage during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the Fairgrounds in New Orleans Sunday, April 26, 2015. Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. (Brett Duke /The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Jimmy Buffett died after a four-year fight with a rare form of skin cancer, his website says

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Jimmy Buffett performs at the after party for the premiere of "Jurassic World" in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2015. “Margaritaville” singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has died at age 76. A statement on Buffett's official website and social media pages says the singer died Friday, Sept. 1, 2023 “surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs”. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

‘Margaritaville’ singer Jimmy Buffett, who turned beach-bum life into an empire, dies at 76

By Mark Kennedy - Associated Press

Buffett inducted into Mississippi Songwriters Hall of Fame

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Associated Press reporter Nicholas K. Geranios poses for a photo in his office in Spokane, Wash., on Aug. 11, 2020, that is decorated in the theme of singer Jimmy Buffett as a way to cope with working from home since March. This photo was taken. (Ann Joyce via AP)

VIRUS DIARY: Dreams of Buffett songs and warm distant shores

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press

Rapper Drake, left,, says something to Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) after the Toronto Raptors defeated the Warriors in Game 1 of basketball’s NBA Finals, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Column: Let’s ignore Drake for the rest of the NBA Finals

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

Jimmy Buffett performs on NBC's "Today" show in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Jimmy Buffett adds marijuana to Coral Reefer business empire

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, photo, Don Rollins poses for a photo holding his Grammy Award for Best Country Song of 2003 at Vidor High School in Vidor, Texas. The Vidor native, who won the award for co-writing &quot;It's Five O'Clock Somewhere&quot; for Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, returned in 2014 to his hometown and high school, where he runs the program that first got him hooked on music. (Ryan Pelham/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)

High school band director keeps Grammy in box under desk

By LIZ TEITZ - Associated Press

This undated image shows singer Jimmy Buffett on the Caribbean island of St. Barts. Buffett will serve as U.S. ambassador for the Les Voiles de Saint-Barth, an April sailing regatta and mainstay on the Caribbean yacht racing circuit. The island was hard hit by Hurricane Irma and Buffett says he hopes his support for the regatta will help as locals work toward getting back to normal. Buffett’s Broadway show &quot;Escape to Margaritaville&quot; begins previews on Feb. 16 in New York. (J.P. Piter via AP)

Jimmy Buffett sails to aid of regatta on storm-hit St. Barts

By BERNIE WILSON - Associated Press

Jimmy Buffett performs on NBC's "Today" show in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Jimmy Buffett’s home state ends ban on Margarita pitchers

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

FILE - This July 29, 2016 file photo shows Jimmy Buffett performing on NBC's &quot;Today&quot; show in New York. Buffett is opening a retirement village. Jimmy Buffet’s Latitude Margaritaville will open its first community in Daytona Beach, Fla., in the fall. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Jimmy Buffett launches Margaritaville retirement village

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FILE - In this July 11, 2010 file photo, singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester performs on the beach at Gulf Shores, Ala. Winchester, a U.S.-born songwriter who established himself in Montreal after dodging the Vietnam War and went on to write songs covered by the likes of Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffett and Joan Baez, died Friday, April 11, 2014, of cancer. He was 69. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin, File)

Songwriter Jesse Winchester dies at age 69

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FILE - In this July 11, 2010 file photo, singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester performs on the beach at Gulf Shores, Ala. Winchester, a U.S.-born songwriter who established himself in Montreal after dodging the Vietnam War and went on to write songs covered by the likes of Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffett and Joan Baez, died Friday, April 11, 2014, of cancer. He was 69. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin, File)

Songwriter Jesse Winchester dies at age 69

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Maroon 5, Jimmy Buffett to perform at Greenbrier

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Treacherous Beauty’

By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times

Katie Couric takes stage as Buffett backup singer

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