page_title: Rita Coolidge
section_title: Kris Kristofferson
hierarchical_section_title: Rita Coolidge / Life and career / Kris Kristofferson
caption_attribution_description: English: Rita Coolidge at the Dripping Springs reunion, that later became Willie Nelson's 4th of July picnic.
context_page_description: Rita Coolidge is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on Billboard magazine's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson. Her recordings include " Higher and Higher," "We're All Alone", and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy: "All Time High".
context_section_description: In November 1970, she met Kris Kristofferson at the Los Angeles airport when they were both catching the same flight to Tennessee. He got off in Memphis with her, rather than continue to his intended destination in Nashville. The two married in 1973 and recorded several duet albums, which sold well and earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1974 for "From the Bottle to the Bottom", and in 1976 for "Lover Please."
  Coolidge's greatest success on the pop charts came during 1977–1978 with four consecutive top 25 hits, remakes of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone", the Temptations' "The Way You Do The Things You Do", and Marcia Hines' "You."
  Coolidge also was among the first hosts on VH1, a U.S. cable network. In 2006, she recorded a standards album, And So Is Love.
  On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Rita Coolidge among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
caption: Coolidge at Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic in 1972.
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