How Did Jim Seals Die?

Jim Seals of the 1970s soft rock duo Seals & Crofts has died at the age of 80.

Seals was born in Sidney, Texas in 1941 and he was a one-time member of The Champs but joined after their hit ‘Tequila’, also featuring Glen Campbell.

Seals then toured with Eddie Cochran before Campbell formed Glen Campbell and the GCs with Seals and Crofts both part of the band.

Their first album with their new label did not break into the charts, but their second album, Summer Breeze, charted at #7 in 1972, and sold over a million copies.

The breakthrough for Seals & Crofts came with their second album ‘Summer Breeze’. The title track ‘Summer Breeze’ reached number 6 in the US and number 16 in Australia, in 1972.

Though the duo disbanded in 1980, they reunited briefly in 1991–1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces.

How Did Jim Seals Die? Details surrounding Seals’ death is yet to be released.

Seals has long been a public advocate of the Bahá’í Faith and he is the brother of “England” Dan Seals, of England Dan & John Ford Coley.

Seals is survived by his wife of 57 years, Ruby Jean and three children, Joshua, Juliette, and Sutherland.