‘A Renaissance man’: Jimmy Carter remembered for his contributions to arts
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Musicians and actors pay tribute to three-time Grammy-winning former US president, who died on Sunday aged 100. Jimmy Carter will likely be remembered for his contributions to the arts – beyond being a three-time Grammy winner – more than any other US president, and one who is nominated again in 2025 for an audiobook, Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration.
Carter, who died on Sunday aged 100, was well-known for his association with musicians, particularly the Allman Brothers Band, the Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels, and Willie Nelson, who later confirmed he had smoked marijuana on the roof of the White House with the late former president’s son, Chip Carter.
Jimmy Carter won an endorsement from the Allman Brothers in 1975, three months before the Iowa caucuses. His 1976 presidential run, he later said, was helped by the band, which raised $64,000 for his indebted campaign, allowing Carter to double that with matching government funds.
“Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers just about put me in the White House,” Carter said in 2015. After his death was announced on Sunday, musicians remembered Carter in posts on social media. “President Jimmy Carter was a truly extraordinary man and a rare politician who always stood up and spoke out for idealism, compassion and human rights and particularly for the rights of women and those who suffered real oppression,” wrote Peter Gabriel, a longtime friend to Carter.
“Rest easy, Mr President. I’m sad for us, and happy for you. Your and Mrs. Rosalynn’s legacy of love will live forever,” wrote the country singer Trisha Yearwood. Yearwood and her husband, fellow country singer Garth Brooks, helped lead the 2024 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity.
