KEY WEST, Fla. — “Jimmy Buffett: A Trip Around The Sun” is set to air on Local 10 News at 7 p.m. on Saturday, as Key West celebrates the legacy of the beloved singer, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman.
Monday, the nation’s Labor Day, is the anniversary of the former Key West resident’s death. The city was his inspiration for “I Have Found Me a Home” and “Margaritaville.“
“It’s a weird, quirky, funny, oddball kind of town. It has been that way for 200 years, and he got absorbed in that lifestyle, and then he started writing about it,” Paul Menta, the co-organizer of Just A Few Friends, a Thursday to Sunday celebration in Key West.
There were so many connections that his fans, known as “parrot heads,” traveled from all over the country to Key West for a five-day festival after Fantasy Fest in October.
Buffett’s sister Lucy “Lulu” Buffett loves it all. She said she was grateful after a recent proclamation making him the city’s favorite son and vowing to restore the building he had loved.
“I am so thrilled,” she said on stage during a ceremony with Key West Commissioner Donald “Donie” Lee.
Buffett, who met his second wife in Key West, had been diagnosed with Merkel-cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer, in 2019. He died in New York at 76.
Florida declared Aug. 30, the state’s Jimmy Buffett Day.
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