Songwriter
Scored his first top 10 hit on Billboard magazines country singles chart with 1995s "Fall in Love." However, it wasnt until 1996 when he made his breakthrough with the No. 2 hit "Me and You."
His first No. 1 hit came in August 1997 with "Shes Got it All" (a three week No. 1 country smash), and the No. 1 hits kept coming: "Thats Why Im Here" ; "How Forever Feels" (a six-week No. 1) and "You Had Me From Hello" (both 1999); "Dont Happen Twice" and "The Good Stuff" (a seven-week No. 1 from 2002). "How Forever Feels" was Billboards No. 2 country hit of 1999, while "The Good Stuff" was the magazines No. 1 country song of 2002. Other major hits include "When I Close My Eyes" ; "A Chance" and "I Will Stand" ; "She Thinks My Tractors Sexy" ; "What I Need to Do" ; "The Tin Man" ; and "Young". As 2003 dawned, he was on his way to another major country smash -- the Bill Anderson -Dean Dillon-penned "A Lot of Things Different."
Has a younger half-sister named Jennifer Chandler.
Brother of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity from East Tennessee State University
2002 ACM Award-winner for Best Male Vocalist.
2004 CMA Award-winner for Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year.
Is a die hard fan of the Boston Red Sox and the Tennessee Titans.
In April of 2005 his song "Anything but Mine" hit number 1 on the Country charts after spending 17 weeks on the charts.
Married actress Rene Zellweger on the resort island St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he has maintained a home on the beach for many years, and where he often goes to escape and wind down in between tour dates.
Wrote "You Had Me From Hello" after Rene Zellweger s famous line in Jerry Maguire .
Won the Entertainer of the Year Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards on May 17, 2005
His wedding ceremony lasted 15 minutes
Met his ex-wife Rene Zellweger at a tsunami relief benefit in January 2005.
He was born to Dave Chesney and Karen Chandler (then Karen Chesney).
Was raised in Luttrell, Tennessee, which is also the hometown of country star Chet Atkins.
Favorite musicians are Conway Twitty , Keith Whitley , Ricky Skaggs , George Jones , Lynyrd Skynyrd and James Taylor.
He won the 2004 CMA Album of the Year for his record When the Sun Goes Down.
Two of his albums "All I Want for Christmas is a Real Good Tan" and "Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair" both went platinum without a radio single or promotion.
On the CMT Top 20 Videos of 2005, he held the #8 (Who Youd Be Today) and #2 (Anything But Mine) slots.
In 1990, he graduated with a degree in marketing from East Tennessee State University.
Attended Gibbs High School.
Favorite book is "The Firm" by John Grisham.
Favorite TV show is "Friends" .
Is a Board Member, along with actor Morgan Freeman , for PLANIT NOW, a hurricane relief and preparation non-profit.
Is a huge Aerosmith and Bruce Springsteen fan.
Good friend of Peyton Manning.
Along with Keith Urban , Dierks Bentley , and other music stars who reside in Nashville, Tennessee, Kennys home was engulfed in a flood in May, 2010.
(June 2008) On his Poets and Pirates tour.
Has been in an on and off long-term relationship with model Jamie Hill Fuller since March 2008.
There are so many things that can be taken and made into songs --,everything that has an emotion to it. I just look for things that,people can hang on to.
It sounds like a cliche, but it. . . you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.
Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something. .
