Meet the Saber Jets
The four performers who give the music of Saber Jets its voice and personality. Saber Jets and its members are fictional. They were created to give recurring faces and personalities to the voices in the songs. Their images, backgrounds, and biographies are part of that fictional world.
Lead vocalist · piano · guitar
Becca is a lead vocalist for Saber Jets and also plays piano and guitar. Along with Peter Cantwell, she writes the music for the band’s songs. She grew up in Los Angeles, where her mother is a pediatrician and her father manages the finance department of an automobile dealership. Becca earned a degree in music from Pepperdine University.
Lead vocalist · guitar · bass
Rex is a lead vocalist, guitarist and bassist whose more reflective style gives Saber Jets some of its quieter, more introspective performances. Rex graduated from Stanford with a degree in biology and went on to medical school at UCLA. He postponed residency to pursue music.
Lead vocalist · guitar · bass · tenor sax
Peter is a lead vocalist for Saber Jets, playing guitar, bass and tenor saxophone. Along with Becca Ainsworth, he writes the music for the band’s songs. He grew up outside Dallas and moved to Los Angeles to pursue music.
Drums · guitar · piano
Jett is Saber Jets’s drummer. A multi-instrumentalist, he also plays guitar and piano. Jett grew up in Los Angeles and earned a degree in accounting from UCLA.
Promotional stills from the Saber Jets world.
The person who writes the words the band exists to sing.
Craig L DeLue is the lyricist and creator behind Saber Jets. For Craig, the song begins with the words. The lyrics carry the story: relationships, desire, regret, obsession, aging, resilience, happiness, and the complicated distance between the life people have and the life they imagined.
After retiring from a career as a small business owner, Craig returned to writing. By his own admission he is “musically challenged,” and he does not create the music or vocals himself. Generative music tools gave him a way to write lyrics and turn them into fully realized songs. Craig brings the story; the technology brings the music and vocals. Many Saber Jets songs go through dozens of versions as he searches for the phrasing, arrangement, tempo, vocal character, and emotional delivery that make the lyric work.
Craig also shapes the broader Saber Jets world — the fictional lives of the band members, the imagery, the visual identity — while keeping the words and the stories at the center. He is also an author and screenwriter, including the memoir The Hidden Heartache, the novel Brian Nine, and the screenplay Between Friends. More at craigdelue.com.
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