Musician Jimmy Buffett plays onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Buddies: Are living from the Gulf Coast, a live performance offered through CMT at at the coastline on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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Musician Jimmy Buffett plays onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Buddies: Are living from the Gulf Coast, a live performance offered through CMT at at the coastline on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Rick Diamond/Getty Photographs for CMT

The preferred singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett died on Friday after residing with Merkel mobile pores and skin most cancers for 4 years, in line with a press release posted to his site on Sunday.

Buffett, 76, used to be well known for his beach-themed comfortable rock track, with hits together with “Margaritaville” and “It is 5 O’Clock Someplace.”

“He persevered to accomplish all through remedy, taking part in his closing display, a wonder look in Rhode Island, in early July,” the publish learn.

Merkel mobile carcinoma is an extraordinary type of pores and skin most cancers that has a prime possibility of habitual and will metastasize inside of two to a few years of being recognized, in line with the Pores and skin Most cancers Basis.

About 3,000 new instances of Merkel mobile carcinoma are recognized each and every yr within the U.S., the gang mentioned.

The Mayo Sanatorium notes that Merkel mobile carcinoma maximum ceaselessly seems in older other folks, and the chance of growing it may be larger through long-term solar publicity or a susceptible immune machine.

Buffett postponed a live performance in Would possibly after being hospitalized to handle what he mentioned had been “some problems that wanted fast consideration.”

His circle of relatives requested that, in lieu of flora, donations might be make to Making a song for Alternate — Buffett’s basis — in addition to Brigham and Girls’s Medical institution, the Dana Farber Most cancers Institute and the MD Anderson Most cancers Middle.

Born in Pascagoula, Pass over., on Christmas Day in 1946, Buffett used to be additionally an writer and industry proprietor, with a constellation of manufacturers to his identify together with Margaritaville eating places and Land Shark beer.