NASHVILLE (AP) - Kris Kristofferson will be honored by the T.J. Martell Foundation March 26 in Nashville.

The singer-songwriter-actor will receive the Frances Williams Preston Lifetime Music Industry Award at a fundraising gala to benefit medical research focused on finding cures for leukemia.

Others to be honored include music industry executive Joe Galante; Gaylord Entertainment president and CEO Colin Reed; businessman and health care advocate Tom Cigarran; and Dr. C. Wright Pinson of Vanderbilt University, a pioneer in liver transplants.