Dash Crofts has died at the age of 85.
The Seals & Crofts band member was best known for creating the hit song, Summer Breeze, in the 1970s.
His death was first announced by producer Louie Shelton early on Thursday morning.
A family member told TMZ that the Texas-born musician – real name Darrell Crofts – passed away the night before from complications from heart surgery.
No plans for a memorial have been set at this time, the site added.
The other half of the popular band Seals & Crofts was Jim Seals, who died in 2022.
Some of the band’s biggest hits are 1971’s Year Of Sunday, 1972’s Summer Breeze, 1973’s Diamond Girl and 1976’s Get Closer.
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Dash Crofts has died at the age of 85. The Seals & Crofts band member was best known for creating the hit song, Summer Breeze, in the 1970s
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His death was first announced by producer Louie Shelton early Thursday morning. Seen left with Jim Seals, right, in 1979
Shelton wrote on Facebook: ‘Sad to hear our dear brother and partner in music has passed away today.
‘Sending love and prayers to all his family and many fans. R.I.P. my brother…..Dash Crofts,’ he also wrote as he added a photo of Crofts.
Seals & Crofts were a soft rock duo formed in 1969 by Jim Seals and Dash Crofts in Los Angeles.
Though the duo disbanded in 1981, they reunited briefly from 1989 to 1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces.
According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Darrell ‘Dash’ Crofts got his start as a drummer with the band Dean Beard and the Crew Cats.
That is where he met Jim Seals, who was also from Texas.
They both joined The Champs and came out with the hit song Tequila.
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Seals and Crofts seen with their instruments in a studio in the late 1970s
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The artists seen in 1975 on stage; they both sang for the band
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Seals, actor Dudley Moore and Crofts attend the Operation California Presents the Because We Care Benefit Concert to Aid the Starving People of Cambodia in 1980 in Los Angeles
Then then formed their own band.
‘About the same time as people like Crosby Stills and Nash,’ Crofts once said, ‘we realized that we had to get out of the money-making aspect of loud rock ‘n’ roll into some music which we really believed in.’
Seals and Crofts both sang. Crofts also played guitar and mandolin, while Seals played guitar, mandolin, fiddle and saxophone.
Crofts, his wife and two children lived in Mexico, then Australia, and then Nashville, Tennessee. He later resided on a farm in Texas and raised Arabian horses.
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