Country music legend and A Star Is Born actor Kris Kristofferson dies
Kris Kristofferson, the country music legend and A Star Is Born actor, has died at the age of 88.
The singer-songwriter died peacefully at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokesperson Ebie McFarland said.
No cause of death was given but the musician had been suffering from memory loss since he was in his 70s.
Born in Brownsville, Texas, Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs were best known as performed by others, including Ray Price's US number one hit For the Good Times and Janis Joplin's Me And Bobby McGee.
He won a Grammy Award for hit Help Me Make It Through The Night and was indicted into the county music hall of fame in 2004.
Fellow American country singer Willie Nelson said there was "no better songwriter alive" when talking about Kristofferson during a 2009 award ceremony.
"Everything he writes is a standard and we're all just going to have to live with that," Nelson said.
As an actor, he won the 1976 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor after his performance in romantic drama A Star Is Born opposite Barbra Streisand.
He also appeared opposite Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorsese's 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.