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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...