Kenny Chesney Receives Humanitarian Of the Year Award: “I have a lot of emotions standing up here” {WATCH}

Kenny Chesney was named with the Country Radio Broadcasters’ Humanitarian of the Year Award.

While accepting the honor he said:

“I have to tell you, I have a lot of emotions standing up here, I am embarrassed and uncomfortable, but God has given me the gift of communicating with people through music… and that’s given me a unique platform to help, especially with the Virgin Islands, with Songs for the Saints, which was written in the moment and came from the heart.”

“You know, I’d heard ‘One Love’ by Bob Marley my whole life, but when you’re under that kind of stress, to see everyone coming together to rebuild and help? I got to see what that song was in action. What was really amazing were so many people who didn’t really have anything, and the way they gave. You didn’t have to be a musician, like me, or a politician, like Mike Bloomberg, to make a difference, and the people did.”

Kenny was honored for the charity work he has done including raising money for the victims of Hurricane Irma and Maria in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He donated all the proceeds from his 2018 album, Songs for the Saints, to the Love for Love City Foundation.

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