Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Friends: Live from the Gulf Coast, a live performance offered by CMT at on the seashore on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Friends: Live from the Gulf Coast, a live performance offered by CMT at on the seashore on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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The in style singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett died on Friday after dwelling with Merkel cell pores and skin most cancers for 4 years, in keeping with an announcement posted to his website on Sunday.

Buffett, 76, was well-known for his beach-themed delicate rock music, with hits together with “Margaritaville” and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere.”

“He continued to perform during treatment, playing his last show, a surprise appearance in Rhode Island, in early July,” the submit learn.

Merkel cell carcinoma is a uncommon type of pores and skin most cancers that has a excessive threat of recurring and might metastasize inside two to 3 years of being recognized, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

About 3,000 new instances of Merkel cell carcinoma are recognized annually within the U.S., the group mentioned.

The Mayo Clinic notes that Merkel cell carcinoma most frequently seems in older individuals, and the danger of creating it may be elevated by long-term solar publicity or a weak immune system.

Buffett postponed a concert in May after being hospitalized to deal with what he mentioned had been “some issues that needed immediate attention.”

His household requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations may very well be make to Singing for Change — Buffett’s basis — in addition to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Born in Pascagoula, Miss., on Christmas Day in 1946, Buffett was additionally an writer and enterprise proprietor, with a constellation of manufacturers to his title together with Margaritaville eating places and Land Shark beer.