Kris Kristofferson is giving up performing. The legendary singer quietly announced his retirement in a new press release regarding the management of his estate.

In announcing that the 84-year-old’s son John would be leading the family business, the press release read, “The legendary songwriter and actor officially retired in 2020, leaving his son John Kristofferson to lead the family’s businesses.”

While Kris didn’t make any other major comments about his retirement, his longtime manager Tamara Saviano did give some insight into the decision in an interview with Variety.

“It wasn’t any big stake in the ground, like ‘I’m retiring! I’m not doing this anymore!,” Tamara explains. “It was an evolution, and it just felt very organic,” noting, “There was no big change — it was this sort of slow ‘What should we do now? What’s next?’ And here we are in the middle of a pandemic… It was like, ‘Yeah, let’s retire.’”

She added, “Kris is 84. It didn’t feel like such big news to us. That’s why there was no announcement: It was just sort of a slow changing of the guard thing.”

As for whether this really is the last we’ll see of Kris, Tamara noted, “I’m not gonna say Kris will never record again, Kris will never take the stage again, because the moment I say that Kris will prove me wrong,” adding, “Never say never. He might wake up a month from now and go ‘I’m gonna go in the studio and make an album,’ and he will.”

Source: Rolling Stone