{"id":13465,"date":"2024-09-29T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13465"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:40:22","slug":"kris-kristofferson-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/29\/kris-kristofferson-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Kristofferson Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/09\/kris-kristofferson-dead-country-singer-a-star-is-born-1236103082\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kris Kristofferson Dies: Legendary Country Singer-Songwriter And \u2018A Star Is Born\u2019 Golden Globe Winner Was 88<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/natalie-oganesyan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Natalie Oganesyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Remembering Kris Kristofferson: Best Songs + Most Unforgettable Moments\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZxa9oSxjJ0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kris-kristofferson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kris Kristofferson<\/a>, a country singer-songwriter who revolutionized the genre and Golden Globe-winning actor who starred opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1976\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a-star-is-born\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Star Is Born<\/a><\/em>, has died at 88, surrounded by family in his home in Maui, Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a prolific country music artist, Kristofferson racked up 13 Grammy nominations throughout his career, with three wins including for Best Country Song for the ballad \u201cHelp Me Make It Through The Night\u201d off of his 1970 album&nbsp;<em>Kristofferson.&nbsp;<\/em>In 1984, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for&nbsp;<em>Songwriter<\/em>&nbsp;alongside Willie Nelson, with whom he also co-starred in the music drama. \u201cMe and Bobby McGee,\u201d which he penned in 1969 and which Roger Miller first recorded, was eventually performed as a cover by Janis Joplin, and its posthumous release in 1971 landed it atop the Billboard 100 chart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portraying John Norman Howard in the heart-wrenching 1976 romantic drama opposite Streisand\u2019s Esther Hoffman led him to a Golden Globe win for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/09\/kris-kristofferson-dead-country-singer-a-star-is-born-1236103082\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Kris Kristofferson Dies: Legendary Country Singer-Songwriter And \u2018A Star Is Born\u2019 Golden Globe Winner Was 88 By\u00a0Natalie Oganesyan Kris Kristofferson, a country singer-songwriter who revolutionized the genre and Golden Globe-winning actor who starred opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1976\u00a0A Star Is Born, has died at 88, surrounded by family in his home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}