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Ryan Gary Raddon was born in Northbrook, Illinois — a suburb on the North Shore of Chicago — in February 1971 and moved with his family to Utah at an early age. He was raised in the Salt Lake City area in a practicing Latter-day Saint household, attended Brigham Young University, and has remained publicly observant of his Mormon faith throughout his career — a personal-lifestyle detail that has shaped both his public profile and several of his lyrical and creative decisions, most notably the visibly clean (alcohol- and drug-free) onstage persona that has distinguished him from much of the rest of the touring DJ business. The Kaskade project formally launched in the early 2000s. After moving back to Chicago briefly in his early twenties — where he absorbed the city's deep-house scene around the Smart Bar, Frankie Knuckles' legacy and the broader American house infrastructure — Raddon relocated to San Francisco, signed with the Bay Area-based deep-house label OM Records, and released his first album, It's You, It's Me, in 2003. The OM Records era of the catalogue — It's You, It's Me (2003), In the Moment (2004), the deeper of the early productions — is what fans of the underground phase point to when arguing that Kaskade's most musically interesting work is the early material, and it includes the Strobelite Seduction record (released in 2008 on Ultra Records after the OM run) and the singles that established the warm, melodic deep-house template that would carry forward through the entire catalogue. The first major mainstream pivot came around 2008 and 2009 with the collaborations with Deadmau5 — Move for Me, released in 2008 on Mau5trap, and I Remember, released in 2009, both of which charted on the Billboard Dance/Electronic charts and established Kaskade as one of the principal American figures in the broader American-progressive-and-electro-house sound that would carry the genre into the 2010s EDM boom. Strobelite Seduction included Move for Me as one of its anchor tracks. Dynasty followed in 2010, Fire & Ice in 2011, Atmosphere in 2013 (which contained the title track Atmosphere as one of the most streamed singles in his catalogue), Automatic in 2015, and a steady run of subsequent records — Redux EPs, Reset, Arkade Sounds compilations and standalone singles — through the late 2010s and into the 2020s. The 2022 Cipher tour with Deadmau5 was the first time the two had toured together at this scale since their original 2008-2009 collaborations. The Cipher framing positioned the joint catalogue as the canon of modern American house and progressive house, and the production design — built around a joint stage that allowed the two producers to perform alternating B2B sets across a single continuous show — was treated by the dance-music press as one of the most consequential arena bookings of the year. The tour routed through major North American arena rooms and selected European dates, with the secondary market for the dates running well above face. Sun Soaked, the Kaskade-curated destination festival, has been running in San Diego at Waterfront Park since the mid-2010s. The festival is structured as a single-day or two-day Kaskade-headlining event with a curated supporting lineup drawn from the broader American house and progressive-house roster, and it has consistently sold out the primary onsale. The Las Vegas Encore Beach Club residency at Wynn Las Vegas is the dayclub anchor of Kaskade's touring calendar and has run for a continuous stretch of years. Encore Beach Club, the pool venue at Wynn Las Vegas, programs Kaskade as one of its most consistent recurring DJs on Sunday and weekend dayclub slots through the broader summer season, and the Wynn property has also booked him for XS Nightclub night-time appearances across the same residency window. The combination — Encore Beach Club afternoons, XS Nightclub nights, and the broader Wynn property residency footprint — gives Kaskade one of the most durable single-property partnerships in American dance music. He has also been a recurring headliner at EDC Las Vegas, EDC Mexico, EDC Orlando, Coachella, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, Lollapalooza and a long list of major dance and pop-leaning festivals across two decades, and his appearances at Tomorrowland in Belgium have included the Tomorrowland mainstage and the curated Tomorrowland Around the World virtual editions. Around the records and the touring, Kaskade has built the Arkade and Sounds of Kaskade compilation series as long-running curatorial vehicles, hosting his own SiriusXM Sounds of Kaskade radio program for years and running the Arkade label as a meaningful imprint in the broader American house ecosystem. He has been Grammy-nominated multiple times — including for Atmosphere as a record and for several mix-show and remix nominations — and his albums have certified across multiple national markets. Off the road, his Latter-day Saint faith has shaped both his lifestyle and several decisions within the broader Kaskade brand. He has spoken publicly about not drinking and not using drugs, in marked contrast to the broader touring-DJ culture of the early 2010s EDM boom, and his family life — he is married with multiple children, primarily based in Utah — has been a stable element of his public narrative across decades. He has appeared in Latter-day Saint-focused interviews and panels and has been one of the more prominent public Mormon figures in the broader American music industry. The persona on stage is restrained relative to peers in the EDM lane. Kaskade typically performs without theatrical stage business, the showmanship is in the production design and the music rather than in physical antics, and the emotional arc of the set carries the room rather than crowd-work or interludes. The crossover with deeper house and progressive house has placed the project inside a broader conversation about American dance music's history and continuity, and the live show has reached audiences who would not typically buy a ticket to a more aggressive contemporary EDM headliner.

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