Ingrid Croce is an American author, singer-songwriter, and restaurateur.
20 Facts About Ingrid Croce
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When Ingrid Croce was eight years old, she worked at her grandmother's dress store in South Philadelphia as a helper and seamstress.
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Ingrid Croce learned to cook with her, and started singing in local clubs and on television by the time she was 10.
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In 1952, when Ingrid Croce was five years old, her parents divorced, and Ingrid Croce was moved from school to school.
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When Ingrid Croce was 16 years old, her mother died at the age of 36 due to breast cancer and a weak heart.
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Ingrid Croce left high school and gymnastics, and moved to her father's home in the suburbs.
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Ingrid Croce attended the Rhode Island School of Design and Moore College of Art, and travelled to Mexico in her senior year when Ingrid Croce won a fellowship to study painting and pottery in San Miguel de Allende.
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On November 29,1963, when she was 16 years old, Ingrid met her future husband, Jim Croce, at the Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center; Jim was a judge for an upcoming hootenanny that Ingrid had been auditioning to be a contestant for a role with The Rum Runners.
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When Jim and Ingrid Croce discovered they were going to have a child, Jim became more determined to make music his profession.
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Ingrid Croce 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.
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From 1977 to 1981, Ingrid Croce was the vice-consul of Costa Rica in San Diego.
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Ingrid Croce wrote and sang songs, completed two solo albums, and started the publishing company Time in a Bottle.
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In 1983, Ingrid Croce became a dedicated runner and finished the Stockholm Marathon, taking third place in her category.
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In 1984, while on the road promoting her albums, Ingrid Croce lost her voice because of tumors on her vocal cords.
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In 1985, at the suggestion of a friend, Ingrid Croce opened a restaurant, Blinchiki, in Hillcrest, San Diego.
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In 1985, Ingrid opened Croce's, and in 1987, she expanded it to include a jazz bar after obtaining a liquor license.
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In 2004, Ingrid Croce launched San Diego Restaurant Week to improve the dining scene in San Diego.
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In 2014, Ingrid moved the restaurant to Bankers Hill, San Diego, and renamed it Croce's Park West.
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In 1996, Ingrid wrote Thyme in a Bottle, an autobiographical cookbook with memories and recipes from Croce's Restaurant.
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In 2004, Ingrid published Time in a Bottle, a photographic memoir of Jim Croce's songs, accompanying lyrics, and her favorite photos, compiled in collaboration with her husband, Jim Rock, and Deborah Ogburn.