Kris Kristofferson, A Star Is Born Actor & Country Singer, Dead at 88

Kris Kristofferson, A Star Is Born Actor & Country Singer, Dead at 88

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The entertainment world has lost an icon.

Kris Kristofferson, a Grammy-winning country music singer-songwriter and actor who appeared in films such as Blade and the ’70s version of A Star Is Born, has died. He was 88.

He passed away peacefully in his home in Maui, Hawaii Sept. 28, surrounded by family, they said in a statement obtained by E! News.

Kristofferson, a Texas native and former U.S. Army helicopter pilot, had begun recording music when he was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford in the ’50s and rose to fame as a singer-songwriter in the late ’60s.

He enjoyed success with his own recorded singles such as “Why Me” and his and then-wife Rita Coolidge‘s songs “From the Bottle to the Bottom” and “Lover Please,” the latter two of which earned the pair Grammys for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group.

Kristofferson was also famous for writing hit singles made famous by other singers, such as “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” performed by Johnny Cash—his bandmate in the ’80s supergroup the Highwaymen—and “Me and Bobby McGee,” sung by then-girlfriend Janis Joplin and released in 1971, months after her death at 27.

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