Inscribed - "With Love / Rita Coolidge"
Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) 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 "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", "We're All Alone", "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love" and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy: "All Time High".
Coolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Dick and Charlotte Coolidge, a minister and schoolteacher, with sisters Linda and Priscilla, and brother Raymond. Biography wrote in 2020, "Her father was a full-blooded Cherokee, and her mother was half Cherokee and half Scottish." She attended Nashville's Maplewood High School and was graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High School in Jacksonville, Florida. Coolidge is a graduate of Florida State University, and a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
In November 1970, she met Kris Kristofferson at the Los Angeles airport when they were both catching the same flight to Tennessee. Instead of continuing to his intended destination in Nashville, he got off in Memphis with her. The two married in 1973, had a child in 1974, 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".
Awards and nominations - Coolidge was inducted into the Southern Museum of Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Coolidge has won two Grammy Awards from her three nominations. 1974 - "From the Bottle to the Bottom" & 1976 "Lover Please".
LINK to a video - Rita Coolidge - All Time High (The Theme Song From Octopussy) 1983 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFurkDf6WXg
LINK to a video - Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge - Help me make it through the night live 1972 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKh6ZqVKmN4
