Country music’s lovable and easygoing superstar Kenny Chesney is having yet another blowout year in the music industry, and last night’s CMA Awards only reinforced his dominance on Nashville’s country scene. At the awards ceremony for the 42nd annual Country Music Awards at Nashville’s Sommet Center, Chesney walked away with his fourth Entertainer of the Year trophy, smiling on stage wearing a black dress shirt and matching cowboy hat as he thanked his fans for their support for him and his band.



Chesney’s acceptance for the Entertainer of the Year Award was not the talented artist’s only chance to steal the spotlight at last night’s awards show, however. Chesney was also one of the scheduled performers at the CMAs, and he stunned the audience with an electrifying performance of his latest single “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven” with an unlikely duet alongside the Wailers, the Jamaican reggae band that backed the late Bob Marley. After belting out “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” Chesney and the Wailers went right into a live cover of Marley’s “Three Little Birds.” Another unexpected duo in last night’s entertaining CMAs was Kid Rock and rapper Lil Wayne, who both rocked the stage wearing Tennessee Titans jerseys while jamming out to Kid Rock’s country single “All Summer Long.” Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Rodney Atkins, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, Kellie Pickler and James Otto were among others in the long list of performers in last night’s awards show.

Much of the focus of this year’s CMA Awards went to Kenny Chesney, as he was nominated for four awards, and all it took was the adorable country crooner jumping on stage for the nation to see why he was chosen as this 2008’s Entertainer of the Year. Before he was selling out live shows and thanking his fans for his monumental success, however, Chesney was just another frat boy in Tennessee, attending East Tennessee State University and picking up the guitar as a Christmas present. Chesney started writing songs in his college years and playing at local venues, moving to Nashville after he graduated in 1991 and playing in seedy honky tonks before releasing his debut album In My Wildest Dreams in 1993.

Combining his love for country and rock ‘n’ roll music, Chesney pushed onward with his contemporary country career, releasing the hit singles “Fall in Love” and “When I Close My Eyes,” two singles that put his name on the top of the charts for the first time in the mid-‘90s. Songs like “She’s Got It All” and “That’s Why I’m Here” confirmed Chesney as a mainstay in the contemporary country movement, and by 2000 the country music sweetheart had released his first Greatest Hits compilation. Since then, Chesney has moved on to conquer the titled of Nashville’s new Jimmy Buffett, basking in country-inspired island music and taking in a more laidback persona. Songs like “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem,” “Flip-Flop Summer” and “Beer in Mexico” illustrate Chesney’s fresh new take on country music, and his genuine wide grin and booming vocals continue to illuminate radio and television stations across the nation. Chesney is known just as much for his live performances as he is for his recorded music, and with Kenny Chesney tickets you can get in on the beach ball-tossing, Hawaiian shirt-wearing fiesta, too. If you haven’t caught the freewheeling Chesney in concert yet, grab tickets from .