The actor and musician Kris KristoffersonCountry music legend and Golden Globe winner, He died at the age of 88. The Texan artist died Saturday, peacefully and surrounded by his family, at his home in Maui, Hawaii, according to Ebie McFarland, the star’s spokesperson.
Born in Brownsville, Texas, in 1936, Kristofferson marked a milestone in country music and ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine considered it “one of the best composers of all time”. Also a member of the Country Hall of Fame He has participated in more than 70 films and he was a boxer, American football player, soldier, helicopter pilot, Grammy Award winner and, above all, an icon.
The artist got closer to music while working in maintenance at Columbia Records, the studio where some of his most admired artists such as Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan recorded. An approach to music that came after the abandonment of a promising sector career in the armywho brought him to Germany in the early 1960s, and who came from family influence.
He studied literature at Oxford University and during his career wrote classics which have been covered by artists such as Janis Joplin (“Me and Bobby McGee”) or Johnny Cash (“Sunday morning is coming”).
At the same time, he built an acting career: in Hollywood He has participated in more than 70 filmsincluding ‘A Star is Born’, from 1976, in which he shared the screen with Barbra Streisand, and which earned him a Golden Globe for best actor. Also to his credit are films like “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, “Convoy”, the “Blade” saga or Tim Burton’s version of “Planet of the Apes”.
However, what really shaped his life was music, an area in which he left a legacy of songs such as “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, “Help Me Make it Through the Night”, “For the Good Times” and “ “Me and Bobby McGee.
