Kris Kristofferson was born in ... and the future country star left the military to pursue a career as a songwriter and singer. Kristofferson relocated to Nashville in 1965 and, soon after ...

“There’s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,” Nelson said during a November 2009 award ceremony for ... appointment to teach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... and had been assigned to West Point military academy to teach English. Before accepting the commission ...