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  1. Kris Kristoffersons life is unprecedented, and won’t be replicated. Born Kristoffer Kristofferson in the border town of Brownsville, Texas on June 22, 1936, Kristofferson changed the language of country music, with extraordinary internal rhymes, Shakespearean iambic pentameter, and socially progressive subject matters that found the ...

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson made it big with country songs like "Me and Bobby McGee" before starting his film career.

  3. Kris Kristofferson. Actor: Blade. Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson. His paternal grandparents were Swedish, and his father was a United States Air Force general who pushed his son to a military career.

  4. Born: June 22, 1936, Brownsville, Texas. Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson. His chart-topping hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s opened...

  5. Kristofferson was the son of an Air Force major general, and he served as a captain and helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army during his own stint in the service. As a Rhodes Scholar, he studied literature at Oxford University after finishing his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California.

  6. Mar 2, 2017 · Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas, two miles from the Mexican border. Early in life, he learns to sing in Spanish. 1954. Published in Atlantic Monthly. At the age of 18, two of Kris’s compositions, “Gone Are the Days,” and “The Rock,” are published in Atlantic Monthly after the budding writer wins a short story contest. 1958. Mar 31.

  7. Kristofferson was born on June 22, 1936 in Brownsville, Texas. The oldest of three children, Kristofferson showed an early talent for writing and secured a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University in England. At Oxford, Kristofferson first started writing and performing his own songs.

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