Ricci James Martin (born Ricci Crocetti, September 20, 1953 – August 3, 2016) was an American musician and singer. He was a son of
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". M ...
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He established his band, The Pack. In 1977, he released the album ''Beached'' in collaboration with
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American Rock music, rock band that formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian Wilson, Brian, Dennis Wilson, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and frie ...
member
Carl Wilson
Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian and Dennis, and the group's ''de ...
and toured in the United States and Canada as the band's opening act. Wilson later became his brother-in-law when Wilson married Ricci's sister, Gina Martin.
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He moved to
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
in 1990 and later joined the trio Ricci, Desi & Billy; it was a latter-day version of
Dino, Desi & Billy
Dino, Desi & Billy were an American singing trio that existed between 1964 and 1969. The group featured Dean "Dino" Martin ( Dean Paul Martin, the son of singer and actor Dean Martin), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Desiderio Arnaz IV, the son of television st ...
. The act had previously included his brother
Dean Paul Martin
Dean Paul Martin Jr. (born Dino Paul Crocetti Jr., November 17, 1951 – March 21, 1987) was an American pop singer and film and television actor. A member of the California Air National Guard, Martin died in a crash during a military training f ...
, who died in a plane crash in 1987.
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In 2002, Martin published ''That's Amore: A Son Remembers'', reflecting on his relationship with his father
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". M ...
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For almost ten years of his musical career, he was a performer in the show ''His Son Remembers: Dean Martin’s Music and More'', a tribute show to his father.
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Personal life
Ricci James Martin was the son of singer
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". M ...
and his second wife Jeanne Biegger and the sixth of his father's eight children. Martin was married and had three daughters: Pepper, Montana and Rio.
He died on August 3, 2016, at age 62, of an undisclosed cause. His mother died three weeks later, on August 24, 2016, in
Beverly Hills, California
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In 2022, Ricci's daughter Pepper came in third place on the first season of reality television series
Claim to Fame.
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1953 births
2016 deaths
American people of English descent
American people of Italian descent
People from Santa Monica, California
Musicians from Beverly Hills, California
20th-century American singers
20th-century American male singers
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
Dean Martin