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Early lifeCoolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee.
Coolidge attended Nashville's Maplewood High School.
She graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High in Jacksonville,FL.
She is a member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
She is of Scottish and Cherokee ancestry.CareerCoolidge is a graduate of Florida State University.
She became known as "The Delta Lady" and inspired Leon Russell to write a song of the same name for her.
In November 1970, she met Kris Kristofferson at the Los Angeles airport when they were both catching the same flight to Tennessee and he got off in Memphis with her rather than go on to his originally intended stop in Nashville; the two married in 1973.
With him, she 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".
Willie Nelson references her in Devil in a Sleepin' Bag on Shotgun Willie thus:Coolidge's greatest success on the pop charts came during 1977-1978 with four consecutive top 25 hits: covers of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone", and The Temptations' "The Way You Do The Things You Do", followed by "You".Coolidge also was among the first hosts on VH1.Personal lifeCoolidge married Tatsuya Suda (mistakenly referred to as "Sudaon" by the Chicago Tribune) on June 19, 2004 in the Cook Islands.
Coolidge was married to Kris Kristofferson from 1973–1980.
They have one daughter, Casey.
Coolidge previously had romantic liaisons with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash; her leaving Stills for Nash has been cited as a contributing factor behind the initial 1970 breakup of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
She was also involved with Leon Russell and Joe Cocker during their Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour.Coolidge now lives in Fallbrook, California.
She is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.WalelaIn 1997, Coolidge was one of the founding members of Walela, a Native American music trio, that also includes Coolidge's sister Priscilla and Priscilla's daughter Laura Satterfield.
The trio released studio albums in 1997 (Walela) and 2000 (Unbearable Love), a live album and DVD (Live in Concert) in 2004 and a compilation album (The Best of Walela) in 2007.
Walela means hummingbird in Cherokee.