![]() Thus began my life long love of theater, and especially musical theater. ![]() When I was 13 years old, I was cast in my first Equity job in the musical Oliver! at the Aquarius Theater in Los Angeles. It was the era of the adorable wisecracking kid, and I fit the bill. I also began appearing on many TV sitcoms, from Different Strokes to You Can’t Take it With You, Head Of The Class, Rags To Riches and more. From there I began to do commercials for many products including Chevrolet, Rustler Steak House, and Mattel Toys. ![]() It all started when I was cast in a TV commercial for Freshen Up Bubble Gum. The famous line, “There’s liquid inside this gum!” took a certain sense of self that not many 10 year olds could pull off… but miraculously, I did. But keep reading, because it’s been a winding road to success… I would spend hours imitating Flip’s “Geraldine,” singing Tom Jones' “It’s Not Unusual,” and mimicking Don Adams catchphrase, “Missed it by that much!” From such auspicious influences at an impressionable young age, one might have expected me to grow up to be a devil-made-me-do-it Casanova, equipped with only an impish grin and a shoe phone, but instead I've followed a much straighter path to some of my most notable characters: A megalomaniacal alien, an anthropomorphic red squirrel, an über-nerd, and an angry beaver. I have known that I wanted to be a performer since I was the age of 5, when I fell in love with three classic entertainers that set me on my life’s journey: Flip Wilson, Tom Jones, and Get Smart’s Don Adams. When it comes to Anime, you can hear him in such roles as Satoru Gojo ( Jujutsu Kaisen), Osamu Dazai ( Bungo Stray Dogs), Joe ( Megalobox), Sanemi Shinazugawa ( Demon Slayer), Guts ( Berserk 2016), Ohma Tokita ( Kengan Ashura), Archer ( Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works), Tsumugu Kinagase ( Kill La Kill), Retsu ( Baki), Poppo ( Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day), Bill ( Beastars), and Hendricksen ( The Seven Deadly Sins). In the world of video games, he has done such roles as Ichiban Kasuga ( Yakuza: Like a Dragon), Eustace ( Granblue Fantasy: Versus), Faust ( Guilty Gear), Munehisa Iwai ( Persona 5), Takatoshi Hijiyama ( 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim), Akatsuki ( Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle), Owain ( Fire Emblem: Awakening), Detective Pikachu ( Detective Pikachu 3DS), Jann Lee ( Dead or Alive 5), Gaius Worzel ( The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel), Gonta Gokuhara ( Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony), Fang ( Fairy Fencer F), Moma Kumakura ( AI: The Somnium Files), and Kenshiro ( Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage). An avid lover of gaming and all things food-related, Kaiji Tang has been working as a voice actor in Los Angeles CA since 2007.
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