Kings Kaleidoscope is a band from Seattle, WA. They currently consist of Chad Gardner, and many of his friends and colleagues. As of their “Baptized Imagination” tour, members include Zach Boyd, Drew Crystal, John McNeill, JJ Nguyen-Kim, Daniel Steele, and Baserat Tafesse. Past touring and recording contributors include: Zawadi Morrow, Zack Walkingstick, Blake Strickland, John Platter, and Jared Buck. Ryan Ponten, James Kim, Julianne Smith, Nadia Essenpreis, Andrew Nyte and Lindsay Gardner, some of whom continue to appear on Kings Kaleidoscope releases and perform with the band on occasion. Musically, the band’s style is a creative blend of rock, pop, EDM and hip hop, while the majority of their lyrical content is very personal, emotional and faith-based.

They began as a worship band in the Mars Hill Church community on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, and it was through Mars Hill that the band released much of their early material. In 2014, they signed to the independent label Tooth & Nail Records, through which they released their debut album Becoming Who We Are. In 2016, the band left Tooth & Nail to join Gospel Song Records along with multiple other artists from the Mars Hill community. Their second full-length LP, Beyond Control, was released in 2016. Their 2017 Mixtape The Beauty Between, was released independently, and their 2019 LP titled Zeal was released under Chad’s newly founded label Rainbow Records.

Chad is the only full-time member of the band, handling the vast majority of the songwriting and production, his wife Alex is the official band manager, and Matthew Warren works on the band’s visuals. The other members contribute instrumentation, background vocals and occasionally songwriting. Most of them travel with Chad on tour, and they all have jobs outside of what they do for the band.

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