Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) is an American jazz musician and
actor. He studied film at the University of Southern California for
two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session
player in the early 1990s and leading his own quartet, he released his
first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998. His album The View From
Here was released in 2013 by Jazz Village. Eastwood plays fretted and
fretless electric bass guitar and double bass.Kyle Clinton Eastwood
was born May 19, 1968, the son of Margaret Neville Johnson (born 1931)
and actor-director Clint Eastwood. He has a sister, Alison, who was
born in 1972. He also has six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie (b.
1954), Kimber (b. 1964), Scott (b. 1986), Kathryn (b. 1988), Francesca
(b. 1993) and Morgan (b. 1996).Eastwood comes from a musical family,
as noted in an October 27, 2006, article from The Independent
newspaper:Music was prominent in the Eastwood home. According to his
biography with Hopper Management, Eastwood grew up listening to
records by jazz legends such as Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious
Monk, and the Stan Kenton Big Band with his parents, who were both
jazz lovers. Eastwood attended the Monterey Jazz Festival numerous
times with his parents. "One advantage of having a famous father was I
got to go backstage," Eastwood explained in an interview conducted by
stepmother Dina Ruiz Eastwood. "I met a lot of artists, greats like
Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. Looking back on that, I can see how
much the musicians I met there influenced my career."
actor. He studied film at the University of Southern California for
two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session
player in the early 1990s and leading his own quartet, he released his
first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998. His album The View From
Here was released in 2013 by Jazz Village. Eastwood plays fretted and
fretless electric bass guitar and double bass.Kyle Clinton Eastwood
was born May 19, 1968, the son of Margaret Neville Johnson (born 1931)
and actor-director Clint Eastwood. He has a sister, Alison, who was
born in 1972. He also has six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie (b.
1954), Kimber (b. 1964), Scott (b. 1986), Kathryn (b. 1988), Francesca
(b. 1993) and Morgan (b. 1996).Eastwood comes from a musical family,
as noted in an October 27, 2006, article from The Independent
newspaper:Music was prominent in the Eastwood home. According to his
biography with Hopper Management, Eastwood grew up listening to
records by jazz legends such as Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious
Monk, and the Stan Kenton Big Band with his parents, who were both
jazz lovers. Eastwood attended the Monterey Jazz Festival numerous
times with his parents. "One advantage of having a famous father was I
got to go backstage," Eastwood explained in an interview conducted by
stepmother Dina Ruiz Eastwood. "I met a lot of artists, greats like
Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. Looking back on that, I can see how
much the musicians I met there influenced my career."
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