Dash Crofts, Half of Seals & Crofts, Dies at 87

Overview

• The Seals & Crofts singer died Wednesday at the Heart Hospital of Austin at age 87, his family said.
• His daughter, Lua Crofts Faragher, said heart failure was the cause after about a month in the hospital for long-standing heart problems.
• Crofts formed Seals & Crofts with childhood friend Jim Seals around 1969, and Seals died in 2022.
• Summer Breeze reached the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, the album sold over two million copies, and the duo earned Grammy nominations in 1973 and 1974.
• The duo faced protests and radio refusals in 1974 over the anti-abortion album Unborn Child, as reported by the New York Times.