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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.
When their son, Adrian James (A. J.), was born on September 28, 1971, Ingrid became a housewife, while Jim traveled to promote his music. On September 20, 1973, a week before A. J.'s second birthday, and just as Jim Croce's songs were topping the music charts, Jim died in a plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana. [5]
In 2012, Ingrid Croce published a memoir about Croce entitled I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story. [37] In 1985, Ingrid Croce opened Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar, a project she had jokingly discussed with Croce, in the historic Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego. She owned and managed it until its closure on December 31, 2013.
Jim and Ingrid welcomed A.J., born Adrian James Croce, on Sept. 28, 1971. Before his father’s death, A.J. lived with his parents in a farmhouse outside of Philadelphia.
Nashville, Tennessee, is known as Music City, and it's the country music capital of the United States. Aspiring stars flock to Nashville, hoping to get their break in a city that the local chamber ...
A.J. Croce performs "Croce Plays Croce: 50th Anniversary Tour" on April 2. The son of the late Jim Croce, A.J. Croce has released 10 studio albums.
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Michael J. Perna (1942 – October 28, 2020) was the acting capo of the New Jersey faction. Perna's father Joseph Perna was a mob bookmaker and shylock during the 1960s operating from Newark, New Jersey. [240] His son Joseph R. "Big Joe" Perna followed him into the life and became a member of the Lucchese family's New Jersey faction.