- Birth nameStephen Ricardo Budda
- Nicknames
- DJ Kaydean
- Kalvo
- Kaydean
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- The driving force behind some of the most innovative musical projects, Kaydean has consistently delivered progressive creativity and groundbreaking innovation in an outstanding career that has spanned over two decades. An award-winning industry veteran, Kaydean has distinguished himself as a composer, pianist, producer, songwriter, engineer, record label executive, artist manager and Deejay.
Since signing his first production deal at the age of 16 he has performed with, produced, remixed and toured for many of the industry's giants such as Janet Jackson, Cucco Peña, Robyn, Laura Pausini, Natalia Jimenez, Marc Anthony, Michael Stuart, Maxi Priest, Raekwon, Ky-Mani Marley, Man Parish, Gran Omar, Frankie Cutlass, DJ Baron Lopez, Nocera, and most recently Janid as well as many others.
While juggling more than a handful of other endeavors including scoring television series and commercials alongside Cucco Peña for brands such as Suzuki, Puerto Rico's Tourism Board, Puerto Rico's Board of Elections, Goya, WAPA Television network, ABC television, and Mistic Beverage, Kaydean has also managed to work on solo projects, releasing five independent, cross-genre albums spanning New Age, Ambient, Dance, Techno and Trance. Most recently, he has Deejayed alone and along side his protégé and Handshake/Sony Music Latin recording artist Janid at Puerto Rico's Premiere Colliseo de Puerto Rico and again alongside Janid at Disney's famed Epcot Center.
Kaydean is regarded by most of his peers as a knowledgeable creative and technical expert and has received recognition from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for 10 years of his musical and industry contributions.
As an advocate of independent music and the New York and Latin underground subcultures, Kaydean's most recent efforts to support these communities include the Blog Talk Radio show Indie Artist v2.0 and the video podcast series 8Hours as well as co-developing the JetBlue Indie Artist Spotlight concert series. Kaydean is the executive producer and co-star in Janid's bilingual reality TV show, Atrediva: The Penicilina Reality.- IMDb Mini Biography By: KALVO MUSIC / GRANDES EVENTOS
- Kaydean Phillips was born Stephen Ricardo Budda. When he was 2 years old, his parents married and his last name was changed to father's last name, Phillips. However, he adopted the name Kaydean Phillips to avoid confusion with other composers with the same first name.
- A child prodigy, Kaydean mastered multiple instruments before his teens including, Drums, Saxophone, Clarinet, Piano and Bugle.
- Kaydean Phillips was born in London, England.
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