'70s Songbird Rita Coolidge on Her Former Husband Kris Kristofferson: We Still 'Have a Bond That Is Beyond Any Kind of Understanding'
Seventies songbird Rita Coolidge's headline-making romance and marriage to singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson may have ended in divorce in 1980, but she says the two still share a "bond" that has endured over the past three and a half decades. "Kris and I have a connection and we laugh at stuff that nobody else gets," Coolidge tells People in this week's issue. "We just have a bond that is beyond any kind of understanding." The 70-year-old songwriter and Grammy-winning singer, who performed and recorded with Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Joe Cocker, is best known for her 1977 hit "Higher and Higher.
- 3/23/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
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