Kris Kristofferson

Kristoffer Kristofferson is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He wrote and recorded the hit 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. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his starring roles in Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born, the latter for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

Kristoffer Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann and Lars Henry Kristofferson, a U.S. Army Air Corps officer . His paternal grandparents emigrated from Sweden, while his mother had English, ScottishIrish, German, SwissGerman, and Dutch ancestry. Kristoffersons paternal grandfather was an officer in the Swedish Army. When Kristofferson was a child, his father pushed him towards a military career.

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