Coolidge is a graduate of Florida State University. After singing around Memphis (including a stint singing jingles), she was discovered by Delaney & Bonnie, who worked with her in Los Angeles. There, she became a background singer on many other people\'s albums. She sang for Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Graham Nash, and Stephen Stills. She was featured in Joe Cocker\'s Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and album, singing Russell\'s and Bonnie Bramlett\'s song "Superstar." She became known as "The Delta Lady" and inspired Russell to write a song of the same name for her.\n', '

In November 1970, she met Kris Kristofferson at the Los Angeles airport when they were both catching the same flight to Tennessee. He got off in Memphis with her, rather than continue to his intended destination in Nashville. The two married in 1973 and recorded several duet albums, which sold well and earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1974 for "From the Bottle to the Bottom", and in 1976 for "Lover Please".\n', '

Coolidge\'s greatest success on the pop charts came during 1977–1978 with four consecutive top 25 hits, remakes of Jackie Wilson\'s "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", Boz Scaggs\' "We\'re All Alone", the Temptations\' "The Way You Do The Things You Do", and Marcia Hines\' "You".\n', '

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