Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, but, as the son of a U.S. Army officer, grew up all over the country. After graduating with honors from Pomona College with a degree in ...

Beyond his influential country music career, Kris was an Army ranger who piloted helicopters ... "Hard to believe my friend ...

LOS ANGELES: Kris Kristofferson ... and flew helicopters as a captain in the US Army but turned down an appointment to teach at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, to pursue ...

This article originally appeared in Uncut Take 187 (December 2012) Ask Kris Kristofferson ... life to look back on. Kristofferson had already been a Rhodes scholar, an army captain, a janitor ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... By 1965, Kris was a captain in the army, having served as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot, and ...

Dubbed the “Yank at Oxford,” he performed as Kris Carson in local clubs ... After graduating from Oxford, Kristofferson joined the Army, serving as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot ...

In her new memoir, Just Kids, Patti Smith tells of a night in New York when she saw Kris Kristofferson — an Oxford-educated, ex-Army songwriter struggling to make it in Nashville — sing his ...

Kris Kristofferson was a Grammy-winning songwriter-singer — in that order — responsible for some of country music and pop’s most well-crafted songs. A north star for fellow songwriters ...