About Tommy Guerrero
Tommy Guerrero is an American musician, composer, and professional skateboarder. He is a former member of the Bones Brigade, a prominent skateboarding team of the 1980s that also included Tony Hawk and Steve Caballero.
Guerrero was born in San Francisco, California. He is of Ohlone, Chilean, and Filipino descent from his father's side.
As a teenager, Guerrero was one of the prominent members of the Bones Brigade, Powell Peralta's professional skateboarding team that was successful during the 1980s. He was well known for his relaxed style of street skateboarding and his Bones Brigade footage was primarily filmed in his hometown of San Francisco—the videos Future Primitive, The Search for Animal Chin, Public Domain, and Ban This all featured the street skateboarding of Guerrero. After riding for Powell Peralta, Guerrero and Jim Thiebaud, a hometown friend and Powell Peralta teammate, started the skateboarding company "Real".
After his success in the world of skateboarding, Guerrero decided to pursue his musical interests and was a member of the skate rock band Free Beer and the instrumental post-rock group Jet Black Crayon, in addition to releasing many albums under his own name. Guerrero's music touches on multiple genres, including rock, hip hop, funk, soul, and jazz.
The skateboarding video game Skate has featured numerous unreleased compositions that were written and recorded by Guerrero. One of Guerrero's songs, "Organism", was featured in the 2005 video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine named Guerrero's third studio album, Soul Food Taqueria , #2 on its 2003 "Best of" list.
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