Kris Kristofferson, known for his poetic artistic music of such sounds as” Support Me Make It Through the Night”,” Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” and” Me and Bobby McGee”, has  , died at time 88.
” It is with a large heart that we share the news our husband/father/grandfather,  , Kris Kristofferson,  , passed away peacefully , on , Saturday, September 28 , at home”, his family said in a statement posted to Instagram on Sunday. We have all had a wonderful moment with him. Thank you for loving him all these many times, and when you see a rainbow, know he’s smiling down at us all”.
His , storied job spanned much more than tunes, as his reps,  , Ebie McFarland, noted in a statement emailed to the , Daily News.
” He was a , Rhodes Scholar , in , Oxford, a protective up, a waiter, a , Golden Gloves , boxer, a gandy dancer, a forest fire, a street team member, and an Army Ranger who flew aircraft”, the speech said. ” He was a peacenik, a revolution, an artist, a singer, a sex image, and a family man. He was commissioned to tell English at West Point, though he gave that up to be a , Nashville , music bum”.
That range extended to acting and the big screen, as Kristofferson starred in” Alice Does n’t Live Her Anymore” opposite , Ellen Burstyn, in the 1974 Martin Scorsese romantic comedy-drama. In” A Star Is Born” in 1976, he played opposite , Barbra Streisand, winning a Golden Globe. He even co-starred with , Wesley Snipes , in 1998’s” Blade”, of the Marvel world.
According to reports, Kristofferson was able to memorize the words of 18th-century artist William Blake, whose sensibility was evident in his lyrics. He was a country song star , modern to , Willie Nelson,  , John Prine , and , Tom T. Hall, but with genre-bridging folk-like sounds and lyrics.
In 2009 Nelson declared there was” no better songwriter alive” than Kristofferson.
Some of his best-known tunes were made famous by another, as with ,” Me and Bobby McGee”, which he co-wrote with , Fred Foster , and which became a stone common recorded by , Janis Joplin , in 1971, just weeks before her drug-overdose dying.
Kristofferson’s apparently inexhaustible good of imagination was matched by his work ethics, his affiliates noted.
” Kris Kristofferson , believed to his core that creativity is God-given, and that those who ignore or deflect such a holy gift are doomed to failure and unhappiness” , , Kyle Young, the CEO of the , Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, told Variety. He said,” He preached that a life of the brain gives message to the heart, and he then created a body of work that gave voice to both own and his heart.”
Young cited a plethora of champions that included Muhammad Ali and , Hank Williams  , in addition to Blake.
He left a pious, valiant, and resounding lineage that rings with ours, Young said, and he lived his life in a way that honored and exemplified the principles of each of those people.
From 1973 to 1980 he was married to songwriter , Rita Coolidge, turning their relationship into a , Grammy-winning music song occupation as effectively.
Since 2021, he had stopped performing and recording.
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