Watch Kris Kristofferson give a very short speech after winning Song of the Year at the 1970 CMA Awards for "Sunday Morning ...

Kris Kristofferson is a well-known actor ... he won the Veteran of the Year Award because of his military service. After leaving the army, Kristoffer Kristofferson became a full-time singer ...

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 ...

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

When that dream didn’t materialize, he joined the U.S. military ... résumé. Kris Kristofferson’s influence will endure for generations to come. He won multiple Grammy Awards for his songs ...

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 ...

“There’s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,” Nelson said during a November 2009 award ceremony for ... appointment to teach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point ...

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 ...