Dash Crofts
Dash Crofts (1938–2026) was an American musician best known as half of the soft‑rock duo Seals & Crofts, whose hit “Summer Breeze” became a 1970s classic.
Particulars
Darrell George “Dash” Crofts was born on August 14, 1938, in Cisco, Texas, and earned his nickname as a baby in a local contest. He began piano at five, switched to drums at ten, and played in high‑school bands where he met future partner Jim Seals.
Crofts and Seals moved to Southern California, joined The Champs from 1958 to 1965, and after a brief Army stint formed the soft‑rock duo Seals & Crofts in 1969. The pair wrote and performed a string of hits, most famously “Summer Breeze” and “Diamond Girl,” earning multiple gold and platinum albums throughout the 1970s.
After the duo dissolved in 1983, Crofts pursued solo projects, releasing the album Today in 1998, and lived in Mexico, Australia, and Nashville before settling on a Texas farm where he raised Arabian horses. He remained a devoted follower of the Baháʼí Faith and died in Austin on March 25, 2026, from complications of heart surgery at age 87.
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