Kyle Gass

I have a real soft spot for Kyle Gass. As the acoustic-guitar half of Tenacious D, he plays straight man and virtuoso at once, and there is something quietly impressive about a UCLA grad pouring genuine musicianship into deliberately ridiculous comedy. The jokes work precisely because the playing is sincere. What I admire most is his comfort in the second chair, building Jack Black's bombast a foundation without ever demanding the spotlight. That kind of generous, skilled supporting presence is rarer than it looks, and it is the engine that turned a goofy duo into Grammy winners.

Name (English)

Kyle Gass

Name (Japanese)

カイル・ガス

Reading

かいる・がす

Born

July 14, 1960 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

Origin

Walnut Creek, California, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / actor / composer / screenwriter

High school

Las Lomas High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

• Official sitehttps://kylegass.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%20Gass
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q371403

Tags

• California
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.