Austin Ryan Hoffmann (AHSTYN - Another Humbling Survival Through Yesterday's Negativity) was born in Huntington Beach, CA, on July, 16th, 1979. He is a fairly unknown, underground solo music artist, singer-songwriter that started playing and writing music in 1991, at the age of 12 years old, in Riverside, CA. Having no music lessons, and being entirely self-taught, he would listen to various rock records and try to play along. Doing this with practice, he became a fairly decent guitar player.