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Kristoffer
"Kris" Kristofferson is in 1936
in Brownsville - Texas and is an prominent American
singer-songwriter - actor and musician. Kris Kristofferson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford and while at Oxford he was awarded his blue for boxing and began writing songs. With the help of his manager - Larry Parnes - he recorded for Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson. This early phase of his music career was unsuccessful. In 1960 - he got a job sweeping floors at Columbia Studios in Nashville. There he met Johnny Cash - who initially accepted some of Kristofferson's songs but chose not to use them. During Kristofferson's janitorial stint for Columbia - Bob Dylan recorded his landmark 1966 album Blonde on Blonde at the studio. He is mostly known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee" - "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole writer of most of his songs - but he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein and Fred Rumfelt. Beside being a singer and songwriter he is also a respected actor with a long film career. Kristofferson has been married three times and has eight children. |
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