Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing model and tough charisma who grew to become a rustic music famous person and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.
Kristofferson died at his residence in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday, household spokeswoman Ebie McFarland stated in an e-mail. He was 88.
McFarland stated Kristofferson died peacefully, surrounded by his household. No trigger was given. He was 88.
Beginning within the late Sixties, the Brownsville, Texas native wrote such classics requirements as “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” “Assist Me Make it Via the Evening,” “For the Good Occasions” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” Kristofferson was a singer himself, however a lot of his songs had been greatest generally known as carried out by others, whether or not Ray Value crooning “For the Good Occasions” or Janis Joplin belting out “Me and Bobby McGee.”
Kristofferson, who may recite William Blake from reminiscence, wove intricate folks music lyrics about loneliness and tender romance into well-liked nation music. Along with his lengthy hair and bell-bottomed slacks and counterculture songs influenced by Bob Dylan, he represented a brand new breed of nation songwriters together with such friends as Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tom T. Corridor.
“There is not any higher songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,” Nelson stated throughout a November 2009 award ceremony for Kristofferson held by BMI. “All the things he writes is a typical and we’re all simply going to should stay with that.”
As an actor, he performed the main man reverse Barbara Streisand and Ellen Burstyn, but in addition had a passion for shoot-out Westerns and cowboy dramas.
