2024-09-30 04:30:59
American actor and country star Kris Kristofferson died on Saturday at the age of 88, his family announced on Sunday. He supported Bob Dylan and starred in movies alongside Barbra Streisand.
“Kris Kristofferson died peacefully at home on Saturday”in Hawaii, his relatives announced on his Facebook website. “When you see a rainbow, know that it is she who smiles on us all”they added.
Winner of the Golden Globe in 1976 for his role alongside Barbra Streisand A star was bornKris Kristofferson is also different from himself Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid by Sam Peckinpah, with James Coburn, in 1973.
A major writer of classics Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down (1969) and Me and Bobby McGee (1970), covered by Janis Joplin, Kristofferson was a leading country singer, along with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, with whom he formed The Highwaymen.
“Nashville came before Kris, and Nashville came after Kris”
Winner of several Grammy Awards, he joined the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004.
Born June 22, 1936 in Brownsville, Texas, Kris Kristofferson first accepted a military service, like his father, before settling in Nashville, the Mecca of country music, writing there mainly. Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down for Johnny Cash.
“Nashville came before Kris, and Nashville came after Kris. Because it changes everything”underline Bob Dylan, said Kristofferson’s site.
The powerful singer, whose lifelong love of the English poet William Blake, continued to perform regularly on stage until his retirement from acting, aged 84, in 2021 .
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