Ingrid Croce
| Ingrid Croce | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Ingrid Jacobson |
| Born |
April 27, 1947 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, restaurateur |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Labels | Capitol/EMI, Croce Music Group |
| Website | ingrid |
Ingrid Croce (born April 27, 1947) is an American author, singer-songwriter, and restaurateur. She is the widow of singer-songwriter Jim Croce and the mother of singer-songwriter A. J. Croce. Between 1964 and 1971, Ingrid and Jim Croce performed as a duo. In 1969, Capitol Records released their album, Jim & Ingrid Croce. Their song, "Age", won a country music award in the late 1970s.
Croce was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a Jewish family. When she was eight, she worked at her grandmother's dress store in South Philadelphia. Her mother, Shirley, played piano on her own local television show. She learned to cook with her and started singing in local clubs and on television by the time she was 10. Her father, Sidney Jacobson, was a general practitioner with his medical office in their home in West Philadelphia. By the age of 15, she was employed as the "junior art therapist" assisting her father at the University of Pennsylvania where he did his residency for his psychiatric practice.
Before her sixteenth birthday, her mother died at the age of 36 from breast cancer and a weak heart. She left high school and gymnastics and moved to her father's home in the suburbs. She and her twin sister, Phyllis, attended several high schools after the death of their mother. They graduated from Nether Providence High School in 1965. Croce attended Rhode Island School of Design and Moore College of Art and travelled to Mexico in her senior year when she won a fellowship to study painting and pottery in San Miguel de Allende.
When Jim Croce and Ingrid discovered they were going to have a child, Jim became more determined to make music his profession. He sent a cassette of his new songs to a friend and producer in New York City in the hope that he could get a record deal. When their son Adrian James Croce (A. J. Croce) was born in September 1971, Ingrid became a stay-at-home mom, while Jim went on the road to promote his music.
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