Kris Kristofferson

Genres:	Country & Bluegrass, Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	country
Decades Active:	1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

Kristoffer Kristofferson, 22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA. Kristofferson, a key figure in the "New Nashville" country movement of the early 70s, began his singing career in Europe. Previously a Golden Gloves boxer and a Creative Literature student at Ponoma College in California, Kristofferson earned a Rhodes scholarship to study literature at Oxford University, England. In 1958 he briefly performed for impresario Larry Parnes as Kris Carson, while for five years he sang and played at US Army bases in Germany. As Captain Kristofferson, he left the army in 1965 to concentrate on songwriting. After piloting helicopters part-time he worked as a cleaner at the CBS Records studios in Nashville, scoring his first success as a songwriter with "Viet Nam Blues", which was recorded by Dave Dudley and reached the country Top 20 in 1966.

Further country hits followed with Roy Drusky ("Jody And The Kid" and Billy Walker ("From The Bottle To The...

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