Co-stars, fans, and other artists have banded together to pay respect to the late Grammy Award-winning country singer and actor Kris Kristofferson, who di:ed at the age of 88.<\/p>\n
Kristofferson, who was well-known for his talents in both music and movies, di:ed quietly at home in Maui on Saturday, surrounded by family.<\/p>\n
Barbra Streisand, who costarred with Kristofferson in the Oscar-winning 1976 adaptation of A Star Is Born, sent her profound sympathies on Instagram.She wrote: \u201cWhen I first saw Kris play at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles, I realized he was someone unique. Barefoot and strumming his guitar, he appeared like the ideal candidate for a story I was working on, which finally became A Star Is Born.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reba McEntire spoke on Kristofferson\u2019s character, characterizing him as a \u201cgentleman, kind soul, and a lover of words.\u201d Many of those who loved his creativity and humanity shared this viewpoint.<\/p>\n
Dolly Parton grieved the d3ath of her \u201cgreat friend,\u201d with whom she recorded hit duets including \u201cFrom Here to the Moon and Back\u201d and \u201cPut It Off Until Tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Co-stars, fans, and other artists have banded together to pay respect to the late Grammy Award-winning country singer and actor Kris Kristofferson, who di:ed at the age of 88. Kristofferson, who was well-known for his talents in both music and movies, di:ed quietly at home in Maui on Saturday, surrounded by family. Barbra Streisand, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}