Austin Peralta

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Austin Peralta (born October 25, 1990) is a musician and composer, son of the legendary Z-Boy skateboarder and award winning film director Stacy Peralta.

He is a piano player, devoted to music from his very young years when he started taking piano lessons at age 6, and continued his music studies with Eleanor Lindboe and Sara Banta at Pepperdine University. When talking about influences, he refers to John Coltrane, Chopin, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, and Kenny Garrett. He won the Shelly Manne New Talent Award given by the Los Angeles Jazz Society in 2003. He has gained public recognition as a young Jazz promise, performing in his home state California, Germany and Japan, where he had his first tour in 2006.

He contributed to the original soundtrack of his father's documentary film "Riding Giants" with a piano solo.