22 year old jazz pianist and prodigy in every sense of the word was found dead at 22 in Los Angeles earlier today, according to the LA Times. The cause of death has yet to be announced. His father was skating legend Stacey Peralta. His labelmate and mentor Flying Lotus announced on his twitter earlier:
it kills me to type that we lost a member of our family, Austin Peralta. I don’t really have the right words right now.
— Flying Lotus (@flyinglotus) November 22, 2012
Here’s video of Peralta at 16(!!!!!) in Tokyo:
November 27, 2012 at 10:35 pm, Stephen Patt said:
Immensely talented…I feel great sadness for the young man, and for his family. My prayers are with Stacey and his family…there are no words.
December 13, 2012 at 2:36 pm, Francine Taylor said:
Stacy is a long time client of Danetracks and such a nice person. Austin was an extraordinary talent.
December 05, 2012 at 11:40 pm, Cheryl Meril said:
Why did God take Austin so soon? This is so devastating, he's a prodigy on the level of Mozart in his time.
December 06, 2012 at 3:36 am, Laurel Casey said:
he came face to face with pop and vapidity.
December 17, 2012 at 4:35 am, Gustavo Gomez said:
Wtf.. no wonder he never wrote me back rip.. one of the greatest persons that ever exsisted.
February 01, 2013 at 4:27 am, Shari Moreno said:
This is extremely sad. I don't know if he knew Christ, prob not. But at least he will be playing in heaven if/ when he accepts Christ at his 2nd chance resurrection since he died this year. It will be awesome to play with him then. My prayers are with his family for their sorrow and grief.
May 05, 2013 at 11:54 am, Derek Dreizen said:
A virus killed him? Strange. So quickly, too. RIP.