The leisure world has misplaced an icon.

Kris Kristofferson, a Grammy-winning nation music singer-songwriter and actor who appeared in movies akin to Blade and the ’70s model of A Star Is Born, has died. He was 88.

He handed away peacefully in his dwelling in Maui, Hawaii Sept. 28, surrounded by household, they stated in an announcement obtained by E! News.

Kristofferson, a Texas native and former U.S. Army helicopter pilot, had begun recording music when he was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford within the ’50s and rose to fame as a singer-songwriter within the late ’60s.

He loved success together with his personal recorded singles akin to “Why Me” and his and then-wife Rita Coolidge‘s songs “From the Bottle to the Bottom” and “Lover Please,” the latter two of which earned the pair Grammys for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group.

Kristofferson was additionally well-known for writing hit singles made well-known by different singers, akin to “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” carried out by Johnny Cash—his bandmate within the ’80s supergroup the Highwaymen—and “Me and Bobby McGee,” sung by then-girlfriend Janis Joplin and launched in 1971, months after her dying at 27.