“I would put the good records over to the left side, and I never knew what I’d be grabbing, but I knew that the stuff on the left side was great. “I discovered the albums, but couldn’t see well,” Croce said.

He also enjoyed his father’s record collection, which would send him down a rabbit hole of musical inspiration. He would listen to Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, and whatever else would come on the radio and play along.

He started playing music at seven and taught himself to play the piano. At four years old, Croce lost his sight as a result of abuse from his mother’s then-boyfriend and spent the following years of his life slowly regaining his eyesight in his left eye. The summer before Croce’s father’s death, he and his family moved to San Diego. Sign up for our Casino Insider newsletter and get the week’s best bets for food, entertainment and fun at Southern California’s casinos. 22 and Humphreys Concerts By The Bay in San Diego on Saturday, Sept. 21, Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Friday, Sept. The singer-songwriter will perform at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Thursday, Sept. Now, his son will pay tribute to his father’s music on the Croce Plays Croce 50th Anniversary Tour, celebrating the anniversaries of the three albums. His death came a year after the peak of his success with the albums “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim” and “Life and Times” and just a day before the release of the lead single of his fifth and final studio album, “I Got A Name.” 20, 1973, Jim Croce and five others died in a plane crash in Louisiana. “It’s like the moment you first met your mother or your father. “There was no special moment in that regard because it was like being home,” Croce said in a recent phone interview. Singer-songwriter Adrian James “A.J.” Croce doesn’t have a vivid memory of the first time he heard the music of his late father, Jim Croce, an American folk and rock singer who died in a plane crash when he was two years old.

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