Kris Kristofferson, ‘A Star is Born’ actor, dies at 88

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Kris Kristofferson, country music star and ‘A Star is Born’ actor, dies at 88. The Golden Globe-winning talent died peacefully at his home in Maui, Hawaii.

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Kris Kristofferson, the actor, musician, and long-haired activist, died at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, a representative confirmed. He was 88.

“It is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband/father/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 28 at home,” a family member’s statement shared by the spokesperson Ebie McFarland.

The cause of death was not revealed.

Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, he played high school football in San Mateo, California. Later on, he headed to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and ended up at Pomona College in eastern Los Angeles County, as per mentioned in his biography.

Moving further, he returned, joined the Army, where he flew helicopters, and was tapped by a superior to teach English at West Point, but instead, he turned to songwriting.

He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and worked as a janitor at a music studio so he could catch a sound wave from musicians who recorded there as he was truely inspired the genre-bending of Hank Williams and Bob Dylan.

He won his first Grammy Award in 1997, for songwriting, on best country song winner “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” performed by Sammi Smith. His “From the Bottle to the Bottom,” performed with Rita Coolidge, won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal by a Duo or Group in 1973, and they won the award again in 1975 with “Lover Please.

He was also the charm of his when Hollywood called, and Kristofferson became an antecendent. His hair, his wisdom, and his romance was seen throughout the country for the hit remake “A Star Is Born,” in which he portrayed an aging music icon opposite an up-and-comer portrayed by Barbra Streisand.

In Kristofferson’s official bio, Dylan said, “You can look at Nashville pre-Kris and post-Kris because he changed everything.”

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