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On this day in 1936, a star was born. Over the past 75 years, it seems there have been very few areas in which Kris Kristofferson hasn’t excelled.
Born in Brownsville, Texas, to a major general in the U.S. Air Force father, as a teen, he tore up the field at rugby, football, and track. He graduated from Pomona College a member of Phi Beta Kappa and became a Rhodes Scholar. His travels actually led to his singing career, when he decided to make a go of songwriting while studying at Oxford.
His family ultimately pressured him to give up music to join the military, but it was a fortunate change, because the flight training he received in the military eventually scored him a chance to shock an icon into listening to his songs. As the story goes, Kristofferson (who was working as a janitor for Nashville’s Columbia Studios — street cred!) flew a helicopter into Johnny Cash’s yard and presented the Man in Black with a few of his songs. That kind of moxy makes Kristofferson the icon he has become over the years. READ FULL STORY »
