However, he later declined a position as a teacher at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, to concentrate on his songwriting career in Nashville. Kris Kristofferson is a well-known ...

Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville ... and the future country star left the military to pursue a career as a songwriter and singer. Kristofferson relocated to Nashville in 1965 and ...

Kristoffer Kristofferson was born on June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas. He was raised in a family with Swedish, Swiss, and various other European heritage. Kris grew up as a military brat ...

More: Kris Kristofferson, legendary songwriting master, dead at 88 Kristofferson was born in 1936 in Brownsville, Texas into a military family that moved often. His family settled in California ...

Kris Kristofferson, who died Sunday at the age ... who mortified his family by abandoning a promising career in the military to starve for five years before he made it as a songwriter ...

Eric Church Reveals the Song That 'Saved My Life' and Thanks Kris Kristofferson As reported by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Kristofferson's parents urged him to enlist in the military ...

WATCH A SPECIAL INTERVIEW with actor KRIS KRISTOFFERSON and writer/producer ROBBY HENSON taped at the Los Angeles Television Critics Association Press Tour on July 28, 1996. HEAR THE REAL AUDIO ...

Kristofferson, son of the actor/singer Kris Kristofferson ... It’s like when you go to the military, they are not training you to be your friend. They are training you to go to war.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with ... England and turned down an appointment to teach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, to pursue songwriting ...

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft ... in England and turned down an appointment to teach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, to pursue songwriting in Nashville.

Country music was never the same after the day in 1969 when Kris ... player, military officer and – as Cash discovered – a qualified helicopter pilot. Everything to which Kristofferson turned ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... and had been assigned to West Point military academy to teach English. Before accepting the commission ...