The legend of outlaw country and Hollywood actor Kris Kristofferson He has died at the age of eighty-eight. The news has been spread by his own family.
Although his name is associated in Europe with both his role as an actor and as a musician and singer, Kris Kristofferson was one of the great representatives of outlaw country and one of the main voices in the spread of a new country that, especially in the seventies , reached new audiences both in the United States and the rest of the world.
After a career that began in the seventies and that includes many hits of which he was the composer such as the classics “Me And Bobby McGee” or “Sunday Morning Coming Down”, and appearing as an actor in more than sixty films, appearing in some such as the successful “A star is born” (76), “Heaven’s Gate” (80) or in all the films in the series “Blade”Kris Kristofferson continued to release albums both alone and with The Highwaymena supergroup formed with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelsonwho went on to release three albums together between 1985 and 1995.
In total, he published more than forty albums as well as countless compilations and albums in collaboration with different artists, including his wife, Rita Coolidge.
Throughout his career, Kristofferson received countless awards for his career, including Grammy Awards and, above all, being included in the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame and the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
The exact causes of his death have not been made known, but considering that he was already eighty-eight years old, it is assumed that they were natural causes of which more details will be given soon.
