Music 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." Eastwood began playing bass guitar in high school, learning
R&B,
Motown, and
reggae tunes
by ear. After studying with French bassist
Bunny Brunel, he began playing gigs in New York City and Los Angeles, forming the Kyle Eastwood Quartet, which contributed to
Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (1996), a concert in honor of Clint Eastwood and his dedication to jazz. Clint Eastwood has always been supportive of, and interested in, Kyle's work, as Eastwood told
The Independent: "As far as my father is concerned, as long as I was serious about my music career, he was supportive of me." Two years later, in 1998, Sony released his first album,
From There to Here, a collection of
jazz standards and original compositions. In 2014, Eastwood and
Matt McGuire contributed to the score of the documentary
Homme Less about homeless photographer
Mark Reay.
Other work Kyle Eastwood provided the voice of "Daddy" in "Daddy and Son" (2007) and the voice of 1980s-era DJ Andy Wright for the computer game
The Movies (2005). He had a supporting role in the 1982 Clint Eastwood film
Honkytonk Man. == Personal life ==