MY name is caden jester.

I’m a 26 year old artist, producer, and mixing and mastering engineer from San Diego, California, now living in Los Angeles. I’ve been making music since my father first introduced me to Garageband in 2008 when I was 10 years old. But even before that, I was messing around with keyboards, drums, guitars, and a bunch of other instruments. After only a few years of producing, I had already released my first album to iTunes (which is now removed) as well as many singles.

Fast forward to 2015, I released my first official single, “Sugar”, which reached over 500k plays and was featured by Keke Palmer in her Youtube series, That’s The Gag. Follow-up tracks like “Secret Lover” and “Dreamlove” nearly hit a million plays each (as of 2023, “Dreamlove” crossed the 1M mark on Spotify). My single “Let You Go” was featured in the summer finale of The Fosters and an episode of MTV’s Are You The One?, while “Secret Lover” was featured in an episode of MTV’s Undressed, where I was MTV’s featured artist of the night. My single “Vacant Love” featuring Blake Rose landed on top electronic playlists on Apple Music (430k streams and over 100k radio spins), charted in iTunes Electronic Top 20, and continues to play in stores worldwide. My 2018 single “Serpiente” garnered over 850k streams in Spotify and was supported by some of the biggest playlists on Spotify. 

My perspective on doing music for a living truly shifted when I was 17 or 18. I had been producing for my own artist project and never really considered other ways to turn music into a paid career. That changed when a friend’s manager paid me $500 for a track we originally planned as a collaboration. Seeing $500 hit my account all at once made me realize I could actually make a living from music. I started actively looking for clients, and by 2019, I was doing both music and school full time. In 2020, I dropped out of college due to COVID and because I hated online classes. With more people at home, demand for production work grew, and clients found me through platforms like Spotify, Instagram, and SoundBetter. Going all-in on production, I quickly realized I didn’t need to return to school; I was making a sustainable living doing what I loved.

During this period, I worked on projects such as “Bad” with my friends Christopher Blake and Armani White (yes, the guy who did “Billie Eilish”). Another song I produced for Christopher Blake, “Thoughts” has garnered 980k streams and is on track to hit a million soon. In February that year I released “Never Be Enough” with Isabelle Simone, which is one of my favorite examples of my ability to blend pop and electronic music (and I did background vocals!). In July 2020, I produced, mixed, mastered, and sang a Spanish song called “Te Borre” with my friend Majo. This is the first and only song so far where I sing lead vocals. In December, I put out an EP titled “International Flame” with my friend WillX BOY, which is some of my favorite work to date (especially “Motherland” and “Pon Di Floor”).

Since then, I’ve worked on Carlos Carrera’s “La Arreglo Yo” (nearly 1M views on YouTube) and “Para El Mundo” with Tavo Betancourt (which had 10M views, but has since been removed). I also mastered Panski’s remix of “Si Mama” by international star Inna. I’ve also been collaborating frequently with Kendra Checketts. We’ve released several tracks together like“Blasé” and “Porch” and had a live radio interview on San Diego’s 91X. I’ve also been working a lot with my friend Layto on songs like “Less U Know” and “Backfired”. In 2023, I produced “444” and “Damn Those Eyes” by Ashley Sienna, with additional production from Inverness.

In 2023, I dropped “Higher” with Kendra, featured in the Netflix movie “Incoming” (which hit #1 on Netflix), as well as Law & Order and Station 19, a Grey’s Anatomy spinoff series by Shonda Rhimes. In 2024, I released my first instrumental track, “THE CITY (Hurt You),” and teamed up with Melanie Jo on “So What, I Called You.” I plan to keep releasing music under my own project, but my main focus remains production for other artists , sync, and enjoying life.

In July 2024, I moved to Los Angeles, California to continue pursuing music. Now, I’m doing artist sessions in my new studio, working with artists I love, continuing my client work, and releasing under my own artist project every once in awhile.

It’s really hard to compile everything I’ve done in my music career in a quick little “about me” section on a website, but hopefully this gives you a good idea of who I am and what I’ve done.

Last updated November 2024