{"id":562703,"date":"2026-03-26T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:29:10","slug":"summer-breeze-singer-dash-crofts-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562703\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Summer Breeze’ Singer Dash Crofts Dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dash Crofts
\n ‘Summer Breeze’ Singer Dead at 85<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n March 26, 2026
\n 5:08 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n March 26, 2026
\n 11:13 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Dash Crofts, best known for creating the hit song, “Summer Breeze,” as a member of Seals & Croft, has died … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

A family member tells TMZ … Crofts died Wednesday from complications of a heart surgery. No plans for a memorial have been set at this time.<\/p>\n

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His death was first announced by producer Louie Shelton early Thursday morning. Shelton produced Seals & Crofts\u2019 biggest projects, including 1971\u2019s \u201cYear of Sunday,\u201d 1972\u2019s \u201cSummer Breeze,\u201d 1973\u2019s \u201cDiamond Girl,\u201d and 1976\u2019s \u201cGet Closer,” per All Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dash — real name Darrell Crofts — was half of Seals & Crofts along with Jim Seals, who died<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Dash and Jim met as teens in Texas and got their start touring with The Champs in 1958, not long after they scored their smash hit “Tequila.” They formed their own band in the 1960s and exploded on the charts, landing five gold albums between 1972 and 1976.<\/p>\n

But, they weren’t totally free of controversy — the pair turned heads in 1974 by recording an anti-abortion song, \u201cUnborn Child,\u201d in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision.<\/p>\n

The duo parted ways in 1980 as dance music became mainstream.<\/p>\n

Dash was 85.<\/p>\n

RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dash Crofts ‘Summer Breeze’ Singer Dead at 85 Published March 26, 2026 5:08 AM PDT | Updated March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-562703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}