Kris Kristofferson, born Kristoffer Kristofferson on June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas, was an American singer, songwriter ...

Why Me Lord Lyrics by Kris Kristofferson is a classic gospel song with lyrics that reflect spiritual struggle and gratitude.

He was an Oscar-nominated actor, a Rhodes scholar, and an Army veteran who turned down a teaching position at West Point. Kristofferson left the military and moved to Nashville in the mid-‘60s.

He turned down an appointment to teach literature at West Point to take a chance at songwriting. Kristofferson went to Nashville in the '60s, and his first job in the music industry was working as ...

Kris Kristofferson's death last week hit me harder than the death of a person one doesn't know should. I didn't cry, but I felt like it, and avoided talking about it in order not to seem like one ...

Kris Kristofferson didn’t fit into the buttoned-up corporate music world in Nashville, but neither did most of the outlaw musicians.

Instead of West Point, he chose music, and later became an A-list actor. He died Saturday at the age of 88.

He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly become a ...

If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying US Army ...

Appreciation: Music great Kris Kristofferson, dead at 88: ‘I was a janitor for a couple of years.’ A music star who became a movie star, Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar, a U.S. Army ...

In remembrance of a legend, Paste has dipped into its vault and pulled together a collections of media from Kris Kristofferson's career.