The leisure world has misplaced an icon.
Kris Kristofferson, a Grammy-winning nation music singer-songwriter and actor who appeared in movies reminiscent of Blade and the ’70s model of A Star Is Born, has died. He was 88.
He handed away peacefully in his dwelling in Maui, Hawaii Sept. 28, surrounded by household, they stated in an announcement obtained by E! Information.
Kristofferson, a Texas native and former U.S. Military helicopter pilot, had begun recording music when he was a Rhodes scholar on the College of Oxford within the ’50s and rose to fame as a singer-songwriter within the late ’60s.
He loved success along with his personal recorded singles reminiscent of “Why Me” and his and then-wife Rita Coolidge‘s songs “From the Bottle to the Backside” and “Lover Please,” the latter two of which earned the pair Grammys for Finest Nation Efficiency by a Duo or Group.
Kristofferson was additionally well-known for writing hit singles made well-known by different singers, reminiscent of “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” carried out by Johnny Money—his bandmate within the ’80s supergroup the Highwaymen—and “Me and Bobby McGee,” sung by then-girlfriend Janis Joplin and launched in 1971, months after her loss of life at 27.
