Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist (died 2022)

Seals and Crofts were an American soft rock duo formed in Los Angeles, California in 1969 by James Eugene Seals and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts. They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Diamond Girl" (1973), and "Get Closer" (1976), each of which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Both Seals and Crofts were publicly outspoken advocates for the Baháʼí Faith. Though the duo disbanded in 1981, they reunited briefly in 1989–1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces. Seals and his younger brother, the charting singer-songwriter "England" Dan Seals, later performed publicly together as Seals & Seals.

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