Rad Jet #2 Release. Celebrate the Change.

Rad Jet's FULL ARTIST BIO

Hawaiian-born Kaju is the founder of the original retro rock band Rad Jet, and is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, arranger, filmmaker, and an award-winning producer.

According to the artists’ full bio, “Rad Jet delivers a fresh organic brand of high energy hard rock, retro rock, and old-school irresistible pop melodies to a New Generation of listeners without loops, samples, or gimmicks. Great songs 100% humanly played.”

Kaju further writes on Rad Jet’s Instagram, “Together we can bring back classic organic rock devoid of loops, samples, and auto tune to a New Generation – a visceral quality that I feel is missing in today’s homogeneous musical lexicon. Follow Rad Jet on this journey and become a part of this growing movement.” 

“96 Guns” is Rad Jet’s debut single and full-length music video with a scheduled release date of July 8, 2022. Their eponymous self-titled debut album with nine new original recordings all composed by Kaju is scheduled to be released in spring 2023.

Rad Jet will release 9 new songs worldwide beginning on July 8. 2022, with a new song release slated for every month thru the first quarter of 2023. Only after releasing all 9 singles, will the full LP be released for sale in April 2023.

Here's an update: Rad Jet's follow-up 2nd Release, "Celebrate the Change" - a melodic pop anthem with heavy guitar and pretty melodies reminiscent of early Foo Fighters and Squeeze - is now scheduled for release everywhere on August 12, 2022.  

Kaju played all 18 instruments on Rad Jet’s debut album, as well as being the producer, arranger, and lead vocalist for all tracks except one. Chandler Mogel was the Featured Vocalist on Rad Jet’s debut single release “96 Guns.” This album is comprised of his unfinished and unrecorded material spanning over 30 years.

On December 21, 2021, Kaju became an award-winning producer when he and partner Felicia Lin’s podcast “Talking Taiwan” won the Golden Crane Award for the Best Special Interest Podcast of 2021.

Previously on September 3, 2021, his short film “Chaos in NYC” which captured the frenzy during the lockdown curfew of the pandemic became an official selection of the 2021 Hollywood First Time Filmmakers Festival.

Kaju has performed as a musician in 15 different countries on four different continents all over the world at various well-known venues in North America, Asia, Australia, and Central America. For 15 years, he was the former band leader and founding member of OFF THE HOOK, one of the premiere dance party bands in the New York Tri-State Area.

As the guitarist for the 50 + member Don’t Give Up Gospel Choir of Japan in June 2011, Kaju participated in an electrifying performance in front of a stadium crowd of 20,000 joyous gospel fans for Gospel Fest at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, sharing the stage with gospel legends Donny McClurkin, and Kirk Franklin.

His appearances on television include competing as a finalist in 2011 on the ABC-TV reality game show “Karaoke Battle USA” hosted by former N’Sync star Joey Fatone, with guest star judge Carnie Wilson, an interview on the Emmy-award winning News Program “ABC Nightline” during the segment “Talent is Overrated” by news correspondent John Berman, and a special guitar performance as “Rob the Guitar Player” with Sal the Stockbroker on the WCBS prime time television and E-Network “Howard Stern Radio Show.”

"Celebrate the Change" 

Words and Music by Kaju 

Copyright 2019

Publisher: Rad Jet Music

Verse 1:                                                                                            

Flea why don’t you come out and play               

Come taste the city lights           

Let’s fly away                                 

I know you’re heart came tumbling down

And all your dreams crashed to the ground 

Babe it’s never too late   

Life is short

And time won’t wait

Chorus 1:

Life is so good today

It’s the perfect night

For a sweet escape

Trade-in that ball and chain

Pop the cork off the champagne

And Celebrate the Change 

Verse 2:

Burn all his photographs tonight

Destroy the still frames

That came to life

Don’t leave the love letters around               

Just get your feet back on the ground

Give yourself some time and space

And the memories will all erase

Chorus 2:

Life is so good today

You’re a bird in flight                    

Like a big jet plane

Freedom can seem so strange

Now's the time to rearrange

And Celebrate the Change 

Bridge:

One sweet day                               

We’re gonna break away

Keep that happy face

It’s a beautiful sight

Our beautiful high

Lips embraced

Now’s the time

Don’t leave a trace

And break these chains that bind

For change will free your mind

Let’s fly…so high away

Chorus 3:

Life is so good today

Now is our time                    

This is our fate

It's time to take the stage

Where we can be all the rage

And Celebrate the Change 

Chorus 4:

Life is so good today

When the feelings right                   

Don't make me wait

It's time to turn a page

Learn to fly let's flee this cage

Burning eyes embrace the flame

Every night just say my name

And Celebrate the Change