Kyle Eastwood, on behalf of the father

This article is taken from Figaro Special Edition “Clint Eastwood, the last of the Giants”.

He is the unforgettable Whit, the young hero of the film Honkytonk Man (1982), who through contact with his uncle, a failed alcoholic country singer, learns the tricks of life and guitar chords. Kyle Eastwood has his father's face, a lively but more cheerful look, an affable face and a musical talent as spectacular as that of Clint on screen. “My father and my mother [Maggie Johnson] were true music lovers, we listened to jazz all the time…”

While he frequented film sets like others a football field, and had played in a few films, Clint's eldest son decided, at the dawn of his eighteenth birthday, to make his passion a profession: he will be a musician! He learned to play at a young age while observing his father, discovered the guitar for the filming of Honkytonk Man, but it is on the bass and especially on the double bass that…