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Kris Kristofferson: Nation music legend and A Star Is Born actor dies

By Editorial Board Published September 30, 2024 4 Min Read
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Kris Kristofferson: Nation music legend and A Star Is Born actor dies

Kris Kristofferson, the nation music legend and A Star Is Born actor, has died on the age of 88.

The singer-songwriter died peacefully at his house in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, household spokesperson Ebie McFarland stated.

No explanation for dying was given however the musician had been affected by reminiscence loss since he was in his 70s.

Born in Brownsville, Texas, Kristofferson began his music profession within the mid-Nineteen Sixties.

Regardless of being a singer himself, lots of his songs have been finest referred to as carried out by others, together with Ray Value’s US primary hit For the Good Instances and Janis Joplin’s 1971 single Me And Bobby McGee.

Within the mid-Nineteen Eighties he joined forces with Willie Nelson, Johnny Money and Waylon Jennings to create the nation supergroup The Highwaymen, releasing three albums earlier than all 4 returned to their solo careers.

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Pic: AP

Former bandmate Nelson stated there was “no better songwriter alive” when speaking about Kristofferson throughout a 2009 award ceremony.

“Everything he writes is a standard and we’re all just going to have to live with that,” Nelson stated.

Kristofferson gained a Grammy Award for hit Assist Me Make It By means of The Evening and was indicted into the county music corridor of fame in 2004.

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 1976 file photo, producer Jon Peters, from left, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson appear at a  preview of the film, "A Star is Born," in New York. Streisand is giving an early thumbs-up to the remake of ...A Star Is Born... with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Streisand and Kristofferson topped the 1976 version of the romantic drama about a rising performer and a fading star.  (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis, File)

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Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson at a preview of A Star is Born in 1976. Pic: AP

Kris Kristofferson, left, and Barbra Streisand present the award for album of the year at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

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The pair collectively once more on the Grammy Awards in 2011. Pic: AP

As an actor, he gained the 1976 Golden Globe Award for Finest Actor after his efficiency in romantic drama A Star Is Born reverse Barbra Streisand.

The movie was a remake of the 1937 unique with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was later tailored right into a musical starring Judy Garland and James Mason and subsequently once more in 2018 starring Girl Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

FILE - Members of The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash appear on stage in October 1985. Kristofferson has retired after five decades. A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer and Grammy winner retired in 2020. His son, John, stepped in last year to oversee his father's business including his record label. The Texas-born Oxford scholar brought introspective and poetic lyrics to country music with songs like “Sunday Mornin' C

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Members of The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Money in 1985. Pic: AP

Kristofferson additionally appeared reverse Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorsese’s 1974 movie Alice Would not Stay Right here Anymore and alongside Wesley Snipes in Marvel’s Blade in 1998.

Earlier than the stage and display screen, Kristofferson was a boxer with US organisation Golden Gloves, he additionally gained a grasp’s diploma in English on the College of Oxford, later turning down a chance to show at a US navy academy in New York to pursue songwriting in Nashville.

Hoping for a break into the business, he labored as a part-time caretaker at Columbia Information’ Music Row studio.

In a 2006 interview, Kristofferson stated he may not have had a profession with out Money, who he stated put him on stage for the primary time.

Joplin, who he had an in depth relationship with, modified the lyrics to make Bobby McGee a person and reduce her model simply days earlier than she died in 1970 from a drug overdose. The music turned a posthumous primary hit for Joplin.

In 1973, Kristofferson married fellow songwriter Rita Coolidge who he had a profitable duet profession with, incomes two Grammy Awards. They divorced in 1980.

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