Kris Kristofferson

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Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

The songs "Me and Bobby McGee," "For the Good Times," "Sunday Mornin' Down," and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" were among his songwriting credits, including those that were hits for other performers.

Kristofferson wrote his own songs and performed with Nashville songwriters, such as Shel Silverstein.

Kristofferson, a producer and engineer from 1985, joined Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup The Highwaymen, and became a leading creative force in the outlaw country music movement that shunned the Nashville music machine in favour of independent songwriting and production. Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

He is also known for his appearances in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Heaven's Gate, Blade, and A Star Is Born, the last of which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

Early life and education

Kristoffer Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (née Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson, a US Army Air Corps officer (later a U.S. Air Force major general). His paternal grandparents immigrated from Sweden, while his mother had English, Scotish, German, Swiss-German, and Dutch roots. Kristofferson's paternal grandfather was a Swedish Army officer. Kristofferson was a child, but his father pushed him into a military career.

Kristofferson migrated around as a youth because of his father's military service, and the two families eventually settled in San Mateo, California. In 1954, he graduated from San Mateo High School. Kristofferson, a young writer, enrolled in Pomona College straight away. "The Rock" and "Gone Are the Days" were among his early writings, as well as prize-winning essays. Kristofferson's passions and trepidations were uncovered in these early stories. The Rock" is about a geographical feature resembling a woman's body, while the former was about a racial event.

Kristofferson, a 17-year-old boy, spent summer as a dredging contractor on Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean. It was described as "the hardest work I''ve ever had."

Kristofferson attended Pomona College and gained his first dose of fame in 1958, appearing on Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" for his contributions to collegiate rugby union, American football, and track and field. In 1958, he and his classmates revived the Claremont Colleges Rugby Club, which remains a Southern California rugby club. Kristofferson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958, which summa cum lauded in literature. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa for the second time in his junior year. Kristofferson referred to philosophy professor Frederick Sontag as a major influence in his life in an interview with Pomona College Magazine in 2004.

During Alumni Weekend in 1973, Kristofferson was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pomona College, while fellow artists Johnny Cash and Rita Coolidge joined him. Professor Fred Sontag, one of his Pomona mentors, presented his award to him.

Kristofferson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in 1958 while attending Merton College. He was given a Blue for boxing, played rugby for his college, and started writing songs while at Oxford. Michael Fried, a Rhodes scholar, art critic, and poet, became acquainted with him at Oxford. Kristofferson appeared under the name Kris Carson with the support of his manager, Larry Parnes. Parnes was attempting to sell Kristofferson as "a Yank at Oxford" to the British people; Kristofferson was able to accept that marketing tactic, which he hopes would help his singing career, which would help him move toward his aim of becoming a novelist. He had a rough start to his music career. Kristofferson earned a B.Phil. English literature is a subject. Frances Mavia Beer, his longtime girlfriend, married him in 1961.

Personal life

He married Frances "Fran" Mavia Beer, his longtime girlfriend, in 1961, and divorcing followed. Kristofferson briefly dated Janis Joplin before her death in October 1970. Rita Coolidge, a musician, died in 1977 after a second marriage ended in divorce by 1980. In 1983, Kristofferson married Lisa Meyers.

Kristofferson and Lisa Meyers Kristofferson own a house in Los Flores Canyon, California, and have a residence in Hana on the island of Maui. In the ensuing decades, Kristofferson has had only experienced a few significant medical problems. He underwent successful bypass surgery in 1999, but Lyme disease was not fully diagnosed from 2004 to 2015, but it was not initially and incorrectly believed to be early-stage Alzheimer's disease. It's unknown how Kristofferson contracted Lyme disease, but it is believed he caught it while filming a film in the woods of Vermont in 2002. When dealing with auto-immune and Alzheimer-type diagnoses, his wife attributes his success and recovery to getting second opinions. Kristofferson's wife said he is now being treated by an antibiotic intramuscular injection specialist in California "who introduced antibiotic intramuscular injections to Kris's regime and is continuing to treat Kris."

Kristofferson's three children and one child from his time in Germany as a helicopter pilot: from his first marriage to Fran Beer, daughter Tracy (b. ) Kristen (b. 1962) and his son Kris (b. Casey (B. ): 1968; from his second marriage to Rita Coolidge, daughter Casey. Jesse, Jesse, 1974; from his wedding to his new wife, Lisa (Meyers) Kristofferson, Jesse (b.). Jody, 1983 (b.) Johnny (b. 1985): Johnny (b. b.) Kelly Marie (b. 1988): Blake (b. 1990) and Moore (b. (1996).

Kristofferson has stated that he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" on his tombstone:

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Career

Kristofferson, who was under pressure from his family, was accepted as a second lieutenant and rose to captain rank. After receiving flight instruction at Fort Rucker, Alabama, he became a helicopter pilot. He also attended Ranger School. He served in West Germany as a member of the 8th Infantry Division in the early 1960s. He resurfaced his musical career and formed a band during this period. Kristofferson was given an assignment to teach English literature at West Point in 1965, after his tour in Germany came to an end. Rather, he left the Army and pursued songwriting. His family disapproved him due to his work choice; reports are uncertain as to whether they reconciled. They saw it as a reversal of everything they fought for, although Kristofferson says he is proud of his service in the military and was named Veteran of the Year at the 2003 American Veterans Awards ceremony.

Kristofferson left the army in 1965 and migrated to Nashville. He worked odd jobs while still struggling for success in music but was also dealing with medical bills resulting from his son's defective esophagus. He and his wife were divorced soon after.

At Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, he did a job sweep floors. June Carter arrived and begged her to give Johnny Cash a tape of him. She did, but Cash placed it in a large pile with others. He also served as a commercial helicopter pilot for Petroleum Helicopters International (PHI), a south Louisiana company headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana. Kristofferson recalled his days as a pilot, "about three years before I started performing, before people started cutting my songs." I'll be working a week down here [in south Louisiana] for PHI, sitting on an oil platform and flying helicopters. At the end of the week, I'd return to Nashville to pitch the songs and then come back to write songs for another week. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" I wrote on a rooftop of an oil platform. And a lot of them [in south Louisiana]] wrote "Bobby McGee" down here.

Kristofferson landed a helicopter in Cash's front yard, gaining his complete attention week after giving Carter his tapes. On arrival, a tale about Kristofferson having a beer in one hand and some songs in the other was believed, but Kristofferson later denied it, saying, "It was certainly an invasion of privacy that I wouldn't recommend." To be honest, I don't believe he was there. John had a great memory. Cash wanted to record it after hearing "Sunday Mornin's Down" on "Sunday Mornin's Down" but in 1970, Kristofferson was named Best Writer of the Year for the song at the Country Music Association Awards.

Dave Dudley released "Viviet Nam Blues," a hit Kristofferson single released in 1966. Kristofferson signed to Epic Records in 1967 and released "Golden Idol/Killing Time" as a single, but the album was not a hit. More Kristofferson originals will hit the charts within the next few years; Roy Drusky ("Jody and the Kid"); Billy Walker ("From the Bottle to the Bottom")); and Roger Miller ("Me and Bobby McGee") and "Darby's Castle") (with Roy Thomas ("From the Bottle to the Bottom"); "From the Bottom"; and "Best of All Possible Worlds"); and "Me and Bobby McGee"); and "In the Good Life" Following Johnny Cash's debut of him at the Newport Folk Festival, he was a hit performer.

Kristofferson, a singer, has signed with Monument Records as a recording artist. Fred Foster was also the manager of Combine Music, Kristofferson's songwriting company, in addition to running the brand. Kristofferson, his début album for Monument in 1970, featured a few new songs as well as some of his older hits. Despite the fact that sales were low, this debut album would be a hit the following year, under the name Me & Bobby McGee. Kristofferson's compositions were still in demand. Ray Price ("For the Good Times"), Gladys Knight & The Pips ("Help Me Make It Through The Night"), Bobby Jennings ("The Taker"), Bobby Bare ("Come Sundown"), Johnny Cash ("Help Me Make It Through the Night"), Sammi Smith ("Help Me Make It Through The Night"), and Billy Hart ("Help Me Make It Through the Night") are all successful recordings of his hits in the early 1970s. "For the Good Times" (Ray Price) received "Song of the Year" in 1970 from the Academy of Country Music, while "Sunday Morning Down" (Johnny Cash) received the same award from the academy's competitor, the Country Music Association, in the same year. This is the first time an individual was recognized by these two organizations in the same year for different genres.

Janis Joplin, a 1971-born woman who had dated Kristofferson, had a number one hit with "Me and Bobby McGee" from her posthumous album Pearl. For weeks, it remained at the top-one position on the charts. More hits were followed by others: Ray Price ("I'd Rather Be Sorry"); Joe Simon ("Help Me Make it Through the Night")); O.C. Smith ("Me and Bobby McGee"); Patti Page ("I'd Rather Be Sorry"); and Peggy Little ("I've Got to Have You")): Kenny Rogers, a country music performer, recorded some of Kristofferson's songs, including a version of "Me and Bobby McGee" in 1969 on the Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town album.

In 1971, Kristofferson released The Silver Tongued Devil and I. It contained "Lovin' She Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" ("Lovin" was a figure in the film. Kristofferson's career as a recording artist was firmly established thanks to this success. Kristofferson made his acting debut in The Last Movie (directed by Dennis Hopper), and appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival shortly after. On the three disc set compilation, The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies, a portion of his Isle of Wight appearance is included. He appeared in Cisco Pike in 1971 and the album Border Lord was released. The album was made up of all-new stuff, but sales were sluggish. Several songs were nominated, winning country song of the year for "Help Me Make It Through the Night" at the Grammy Awards this year. Jesus Was a Capricorn, Kristofferson's 1972 fourth album, had slow sales at first, but "Why Me", the third album, was a hit and has significantly raised album sales. It has over a million copies and was given a gold disc by the RIAA on November 8, 1973.

On BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test, Kristofferson appeared with Rita Coolidge on British television, giving a physically closer recreation of "Help Me Make It Through the Night." Al Green's "For the Good Times" album "I'm Still in Love with You" was released in 1972.

Kristofferson concentrated on acting for the next two years. He appeared in Love (1973), directed by Paul Mazursky (1974), and three Sam Peckinpah films: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1974), Convoy (1977) and Michael Ritchie's Semi-Tough (1977) with Burt Reynolds. He continued to act in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Vigilante Force (1976), and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), a romantic romance for which Barbra Streisand received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor shortly thereafter. Kristofferson rejected William Friedkin's Sorcerer (1977) and the romantic war film Hanover Street (1979), at the height of his box office fame. Despite his success with Styraxand, Kristofferson's solo musical career, Shake Hands with the Devil, fell on his non-charting ninth album, Shake Hands with the Devil. He didn't get high marks on his second film, Freedom Road, a two-part 1979 NBC-TV film.

In Michael Cimino's bleak and sprawling 1980 anti-Western Heaven's Gate, Kristofferson was next cast in the lead role as enigmatic Sheriff James Averill. Despite being a scandalous studio-bankrupting and industry-changing failure at the time (it cost Kristofferson's Hollywood A-list status), the film gained critical attention in subsequent years. He appeared in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, directed by William Tannen, in 1986. In 1985, this was followed by the neo-noir thriller Trouble In Mind co-starring Keith Carradine and Lori Singer. Kristofferson appeared in the seven-episode television series Amerika with Robert Urich and Christine Lahti in 1987. He appeared in 1989 as the male lead in the film Millennium with Cheryl Laddd. In 1996, Charlie Wade, a shady South Texas sheriff, appeared in John Sayles' Lone Star, a film that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay. He appeared in the film Fire Down Below with Steven Seagal in 1997.

He appeared in the film Blade in 1998, alongside Wesley Snipes as Blade's mentor Abraham Whistler. He appeared in Blade II (2002) and again in Blade: Trinity (2004). He appeared in Dance With Me in 1998, as did Vanessa Williams and Chayanne. He co-starred in Payback with Mel Gibson in 1999. He was in the 2001 Tim Burton version of Planet of the Apes. In the Norwegian film "Yohan" as an old man, he has also played the title character "Yohan" as an old man. He co-starred in the 2011 film Dolphin Tales and its 2014 sequel, Dolphin Tale 2 (Japan). Kristofferson and Dolly Parton, a long-time friend, were in Joyful Noise in 2012. Kristofferson appeared in The Motel Life, as well as Angels Sing with Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett in 2013. Kristofferson appeared in the film Disappearances of Whiskey running from Quebec to the United States during the Great Depression in 2006.

Kristofferson met Rita Coolidge in the early 1970s after he was successful in the early 1970s. They married in 1973 and released an album titled Full Moon, another hit singles and Grammy nominations followed their success. However, his fifth album, Spooky Lady's Sideshow, was a commercial disappointment, setting the tone for the majority of his musical career. Ronnie Milsap and Johnny Duncan continued to record Kristofferson's work with a following, but his own audience was limited to a minimum. Meanwhile, Willie Nelson, whose 1979 LP debut of (Willie Nelson) Sings Kristofferson, reached top of the charts and was rated Platinum in the United States, has earned his songs to the top of the charts.

Kristofferson, a 1979 visitor to Cuba, traveled to Havana, Cuba, to attend the legendary Havana Jam festival, alongside Rita Coolidge, Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Weather Report, and Billy Joel, as well as a diverse group of Cuban artists, including Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines, and Orquesta Aragón. On Ernesto Juan Castellanos' documentary Havana Jam '79, his appearance is captured.

Kristofferson and Coolidge performed "Help Me Make It Through the Night" with forest animals on November 18, 1979, while Miss Piggy sang "We're All Alone" with the Muppets, and the two performed "Song I'd Like to Sing" with the Muppets. In 1980, the couple divorced.

Kristofferson appeared on Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Brenda Lee on The Winning Hand, a double album containing remastered and updated recordings of recordings made by the four artists for the Monument brand during the mid-1960s; the album debuted in the top ten on the US country album charts in 1982. He married again, to Lisa Meyers, and concentrated on film for a brief period of time, appearing in the 1984 editions The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck, Flashpoint, and Songwriter. Nelson and Kristofferson appeared in Songwriter, and Kristofferson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score. The album Music from Songwriter, which featured Nelson-Kristofferson duets, was a huge success in the United States.

Nelson and Kristofferson continued their collaboration, with Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash assisting in the formation of the Highwaymen. Highwayman, the band's first album, was a hit, and the band continued to collaborate for a while. In 1985, the album's single, "Highway Man," was also called "Highway Man," and was written specifically for them by Jimmy Webb. Kristofferson appeared in Trouble in Mind and released Repossessed, a politically conscious album that was a country success, particularly "They Killed Him," a salute to his heroes, including Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus, and Mahatma Gandhi. Kristofferson appeared in Amerika at the same time as a miniseries that attempted to capture life in America under Soviet rule.

Kristofferson's solo recording career in the early 1990s slowed considerably despite the success of Highwayman 2 in 1990, though the Highwaymen continued to tour with a flourishing lineup. Lone Star (1996 film by John Sayles) resurrectated Kristofferson's acting career, including appearances in Blade, Blade II, Blade: Trinity, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes, Bonds, Payback, The Jacket, and Fast Food Nation.

Kristofferson was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985, as had the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame earlier in 1977. The Austin Sessions, a 1999 collection on which Kristofferson reworked some of his favorite songs with the assistance of musicians such as Mark Knopfler, Steve Earl, and Jackson Browne, was released. Broken Freedom Song, a live album released in San Francisco in 2003, was released in Broken Freedom Song.

The American Music Association's "Spirit of Americana" free speech award in 2003. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004. He received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006 and released his first album of new music in 11 years; This Old Road. Kristofferson received the CMT's Johnny Cash Visionary Award on April 21, 2007. During the April 16 awards show in Nashville, Rosanne Cash, Cash's daughter, was honoured. Cash, Hank Williams, Jr., Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, and the Dixie Chicks are among the Dixie Chicks who have received awards. "John was my hero before he was my friend, and anything with his name on it is an honor in my eyes," Kristofferson said during a phone interview. "I was thinking back to when I first met him, and if I'd have guessed that I'd be getting an award with his name on it, it would have taken me through a lot of difficult times."

Kristofferson appeared on CMT's Studio 330 Sessions in July 2007, where he performed many of his hits.

Kristofferson appeared in a special taping of a PBS songwriters collection on June 13, 2008, with Patty Griffin and Randy Owen (Alabama). Each performer performed five songs. "The Best of Any Possible Worlds," "Darby's Castle," "Casey's Last Ride," "Me and Bobby McGee," and "Here Comes the Rainbow Again" were among Kristofferson's set's "Me and Bobby McGee." In Nashville, taping was done.

On September 29, 2009, Kristofferson unveiled a new collection of original songs titled Closer to the Bone. Don Was on the New West label, it is produced by Don Was. Kristofferson remarked: "I like the closeness of the new album." It has a general tone of reminiscing about where we all are at this time of life."

Kristofferson was named a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI Country Awards on November 10, 2009. Kristofferson's songwriting has received 48 BMI Country and Pop Awards throughout his career. "You can hear your baby being interpreted by so many people with artistic abilities verbally that I don't have," he said later. Kristofferson had always denied having a positive reputation, and has stated that as he has aged, the quality it might have had has diminished.

Kristofferson would be portraying Joe on the forthcoming album Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, a collaboration between rock singer John Mellencamp and novelist Stephen King, as shown in December 2009.

Light in Attic Records held demos on May 11, 2010 that were captured during Kristofferson's janitorial stint at Columbia. Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends: This is the first time these recordings have been published, and it includes information that will later be included on other Kristofferson albums and on other popular artists' albums, as well as footage from "Me and Bobby McGee's debut.

Kristofferson performed at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center on June 4, 2011, showcasing both some of his original hits that have been made popular by other artists and newer ones.

Feeling Mortal, Kristofferson's first collection of original songs, was released in early 2013. In September 2014, Kris Kristofferson's album An Evening With Kris Kristofferson was released.

In the hit 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas, Kristofferson played Chief Hanlon of the NCR Rangers.

Matt Keleman's interview for the Las Vegas magazine Q&A announced on October 23, 2015, that he would have a new album, The Cedar Creek Sessions, which were recorded in Austin, would have both old and new songs. In December 2016, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album.

On the 2017 album Cover Stories, Kristofferson covered Brandi Carlile's "Tourpentine."

On the 75th anniversary of Mitchell's 75th birthday, Kristofferson performed, with help from Carlile, on "A Case of You," from the 1971 Mitchell album Blue.

Kristofferson was announced as one of the supporting artists for a Barbra Streisand "exclusive European concert" in Hyde Park, London, on July 7 as part of Barclay's Summertime Concert series in June 2019.

Kristofferson had resigned in January 2021, according to the newspaper. His last appearances were widely reported to be on the Outlaw Country Cruise in January 2020, but this is inaccurate. Kris Kristofferson's last full appearance at the Sunrise Theatre in Fort Pierce, Florida, on February 5, 2020. He was backed by the Strangers on the Outlaw Country Cruise.

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