Jim Seals enjoyed great success with the soft rock duo Seals & Crofts in the 1970s. Now the singer died at the age of 80.
James “Jim” Eugene Seals (1941-2022) of the soft rock duo Seals & Crofts is dead. , the musician and singer died on Monday (June 6) at the age of 80. The cause of death is not known.
The duo was particularly successful in the 1970s. Biggest hits by Jim Seals and Dash Crofts (81) include “Summer Breeze”, “Diamond Girl” and “Get Closer”. In 1980 they withdrew from the music business and released what was their last album, “The Longest Road”. Seals moved to a coffee farm in Costa Rica, but has also lived in Nashville and southern Florida. In 1991 Seals & Crofts made their comeback and played a few concerts, another reunion followed in 2004. 24 years after the last album they released the long player “Traces”.
Mourning for Jim Seals
US singer John Ford Coley (73), who worked closely with the duo, published a moving obituary for Jim Seals. “I’ve spent a lot of my musical life with this man. We’ve toured together, he and Dash invited us to sing on Seals & Crofts records and we played with him for years.” Coley formed the duo England Dan & John Ford Coley with Danny “England Dan” Seals (1948-2009), Jim Seals’ younger brother.
Among other things, Jim Seals taught Coley “to juggle, made me laugh, teased, encouraged, showed amazing worlds and different perspectives on life”. The two “didn’t always agree”, but it was “always entertaining”. Jim Seals was a “musical genius” and a “very deep and thoughtful man”. “I’m very sad but I have some of the best memories of all of us together. Rest in peace Jimmy. You and Dan will finally be reunited,” Coley wrote.
Source: Stern
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