

Anywhere), plus a string of hits - and heartbreak, often fuelled by the men she hooked up with and a torrid six-year marriage to the love of her life, Kris Kristofferson, doomed to disaster as he womanised and battled booze. It has been a life of triumphs - including two Grammy awards, a multi-platinum album (Anytime. Rita Coolidge, daughter of a Cherokee Baptist minister and Cherokee-Scottish mother, was catapulted into the music industry in the late-Sixties during a time of huge creativity, becoming one of the most sought-after backing singers in the business, touring and recording with Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and Crosby, Stills & Nash, among others.
