Kris Kristofferson ✝

Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He wrote and recorded the songs "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin\' Comin\' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup The Highwaymen, and formed a key creative force in the Outlaw country music movement that eschewed the Nashville music machine in favor of independent songwriting and producing.\n', 'In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his starring roles in Alice Doesn\'t Live Here Anymore, Heaven\'s Gate, Blade and A Star Is Born, the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.\n', ' Kristoffer Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (née Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson, a U.S. Army Air Corps officer (later a U.S. Air Force major general). His paternal grandparents emigrated from Sweden, while his mother had English, Scots-Irish, German, Swiss-German, and Dutch ancestry. Kristofferson\'s paternal grandfather was an officer in the Swedish Army. When Kristofferson was a child, his father pushed him towards a military career.\n', ' At the age of 17, Kristofferson took a summer job with a dredging contractor on Wake Island. He called it "the hardest job I ever had."\n', '