Kris Kristofferson, country music icon and celebrated Hollywood actor, died on Saturday, September 28 at the age of 88.<\/p>\n
Kristofferson died peacefully at his home in Maui while surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n
No cause of death has been disclosed. Kristofferson was a native of Brownsville, Texas, who wrote classic country songs like \u201cSunday Mornin\u2019 Comin\u2019 Down,\u201d \u201cHelp Me Make It Through the Night,\u201d \u201cFor the Good Times,\u201d and \u201cMe and Bobby McGee.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kristofferson also made his mark in Hollywood, featuring in Martin Scorsese\u2019s 1974 film Alice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore, and starring opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born, with the duo\u2019s collaborative 4x-platinum soundtrack reaching No. 1 on the Billboard chart.<\/p>\n
Kristofferson placed three No. 1 records on the Top Country Albums chart, 1973\u2019s Jesus Was a Capricorn and Full Moon (with Rita Coolidge), and 1985\u2019s Highwayman (with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash), while scoring two No. 1 Hot Country Songs singles, 1973\u2019s \u201cWhy Me\u201d and 1985\u2019s \u201cHighwayman.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back in 2009, Willie Nelson said…<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson. Everything he writes is a standard and we\u2019re all just going to have to live with that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kris Kristofferson, Country Music Legend And Beloved Actor, Dies At 88","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3913,4353],"class_list":["post-29747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-death","tag-kris-kristofferson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 11:58:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/09\/kris-kristofferson-dies-at-88\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29749,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions\/29749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}