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Croce was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1971, the son of singers Jim Croce, who was from an Italian Roman Catholic family, and Ingrid Croce, who is Jewish. His father died in a plane crash in September 1973, at age 30, eight days before A.J.'s second birthday.
The “Time in a Bottle” singer and his wife, Ingrid Croce, welcomed their first and only child together in 1971, son Adrian James "A.J." Croce. Sadly, days before A.J. turned 2, his...
The singer-songwriter lost his dad in a plane crash before he turned two, temporarily lost his sight when he was four, and lost his wife to a heart condition...
A.J. Croce is the only son of singer Jim Croce, who sadly died in a plane crash in 1973. A.J. was a little under two years old at the time and even though he doesn’t remember much about his famous father, he aims to carry on his legacy with song.
A.J. Croce, son of the late Jim Croce, took up the piano after losing his vision at age 4. He later regained sight in one eye and was a regularly gigging musician by age 15.. How A.J. Croce came to embrace his father’s legacy. By Scott Hall.
Having overcome childhood blindness and a devastating fire, 52-year-old virtuoso A.J. Croce reveals how he reconnected with Jim Croce, the late father he barely got to know, by reviving...
Now 50, A.J. Croce is turning to the music that his father, Jim Croce, made famous, and in the process is embracing his father's legacy – and his own. The singer-songwriter lost his dad in a...
As if the finality of Jim Croce’s abrupt 1973 death in a plane crash weren’t enough, for posterity we have the portrait of his two-year-old son—draped in his dad’s concert T-shirt and clutching his cowboy hat—that graced the inside cover of 1974’s Photographs And Memories.
We lost Jim Croce in 1973, but his son A.J. Croce is keeping the musical genius of his father alive -- in his own, unique way.
Now he’s reintroducing Jim Croce’s legacy to audiences. Croce’s songs like “Operator” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” are being performed once again by his 52-year-old son on a Croce Plays Croce Tour, writes Jordan Rubtagh for People.