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 which was released on schedule on July 8, 2022. Their eponymous self-titled debut album with ten new original recordings all composed by Kaju is scheduled to be released in Fall 2023.

Rad Jet will release 10 new songs worldwide beginning on July 8. 2022, with a new song release slated for every month or two thru the last quarter of 2023. Only after releasing all 10 singles, will the full LP be released for sale in Fall 2023.

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 - was released everywhere on August 12, 2022.

Here's an update:  Rad Jet followed up these first (2) releases with his next three releases: "The Politics of Guns" (released 10.7.22), an anti-guns call out for change with the current gun legislation, "Burst" (released 12.9.22) perhaps Rad Jet's catchiest pop song, and "Silent Storms", Rad Jet's dark and haunting ballad about one's personal tale of isolation and tragedy (scheduled release on 2.10.23)

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.”

"Silent Storms" 

Words and Music by Kaju 

Copyright 2019

Publisher: Rad Jet Music

Verse 1:                                                                                            

While I walk these city streets

Through canyons filled with rain

Inner voices softly weep

For the love I once let slip away

Misty flashes

My life passes

Shadows in the rain

Since the wind swept you away

This destiny reigns

Chorus 1:

Silent storms raging on

Night and day since you've been gone

Waves keep crashing to the shore

How can I go on?

While life keeps passing through these

Silent Storms

Verse 2:

Meditations of devastation

Violent storms on the sea

Everynight I dread to sleep

Her ghost invades my darkest dreams

Fear the terror

Feel the tremors

Of the deadly hurricane

While this infamous catastrophe

Leaves nothing to remain

Chorus 2:

Silent storms raging on

Night and day since you've been gone

Feel the surge hear the roar

How can I go on?

While life keeps passing through these

Silent Storms

Bridge:

Couldn't save you from the rage

Or the wrath of the rising waves

Now my life's mangled remains

Lay black in barren waste

For the love I couldn't save

Verse 3:

Wasted years and bitter tears

Can slowly kill the soul

When dreams that once lay paved in gold

Fall like a wilted rose

Unforgiving for the living

Forever bound in chains

I write this tragedy

And slowly go insane

Chorus 3 & Outro

Silent storms raging on

Night and day since you've been gone

Hear the surge feel the roar

How can I go on?

While life keeps passing through these

Silent Storms....

Silent storms raging on

Night and day since you've been gone

When tragedy walks through the door

How can I go on...

How can I go on...

And how can I live on?

While life keeps passing through these

Silent Storms