Jimmy Buffett died of a uncommon pores and skin most cancers : NPR

Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Buddies: Stay from the Gulf Coast, a live performance introduced by CMT at on the seaside on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Buddies: Stay from the Gulf Coast, a live performance introduced by CMT at on the seaside on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Rick Diamond/Getty Photos for CMT

The favored 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 web site on Sunday.

Buffett, 76, was well-known for his beach-themed comfortable rock music, with hits together with «Margaritaville» and «It is 5 O’Clock Someplace.»

«He continued to carry out throughout therapy, taking part in his final present, a shock look 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 a few years of being recognized, in keeping with the Pores and skin Most cancers Basis.

About 3,000 new instances of Merkel cell carcinoma are recognized every year within the U.S., the group stated.

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

Buffett postponed a live performance in Might after being hospitalized to deal with what he stated had been «some points that wanted speedy consideration.»

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 Girls’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Most cancers Institute and the MD Anderson Most cancers Heart.

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