MY name is caden jester.

I’m a 25 year old artist, producer, and mixing and mastering engineer from San Diego, California. 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 as well as many singles.

Fast forward to 2015, I released my first official single, “Sugar”. It got over 500k plays across platforms, and was supported by Keke Palmer in her Youtube series, That’s The Gag. My follow up singles, including “Secret Lover” and “Dreamlove”, each racked up nearly 1M plays (as of late 2023, Dreamlove has officially surpassed 1 million streams in 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. My single “Vacant Love” was featured in some of the top editorial electronic playlists on Apple Music (with 430k streams and over 100k radio spins on the platform), as well as charting in the Top 20 electronic songs on all of iTunes. As recently as January 18th, 2024, I still get messages from friends hearing Vacant Love in stores and restaurants all around the world. My 2018 single “Serpiente” garnered over 855k streams in Spotify and was supported by some of the biggest playlists on Spotify. 

In 2020, I released “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 958k 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, 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”).

In the past few years, I’ve been doing a lot of production, mixing, and mastering work for other artists. A project I worked on called “La Arreglo Yo” for Carlos Carrera has nearly 1M views on Youtube. Another project by Carlos called “Para El Mundo” featuring Tavo Betancourt has nearly 10M views on Youtube. In 2020, I mastered a remix of “Si Mama” by the international superstar Inna. I assisted the renowned Latin producer El Beatboy (credits: Daddy Yankee, MC Davo, among others) in recording the vocals of Jae Bau‘s single “Sin Filtro,” featuring Byan Montero.

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work with my friend Kendra Checketts. We’ve released quite a few songs together (including “Blasé” and “Porch”), and have tons more coming. In April 2022, her and I had a live radio interview on San Diego’s own 91X. I’ve also been working a lot with my friend Layto. In 2022 we released “Less U Know” and “Backfire”. In 2023, I produced “444” and “Damn Those Eyes” by Ashley Sienna, with additional production from Inverness (whose credits include Flo-Rida, Jason Derulo, FLETCHER, Ava Max, Christian French, Loren Gray, and many more).

In 2024, I released “Higher” with Kendra Checketts, which marked the end of my two-year hiatus. I’m hoping to more regularly release under my artist project, however, my main focus right now is production for other artists, sync, and enjoying life.

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. I’ll update this probably every few years or so when I feel like getting around to it. (Last updated February 2024)