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Chris Cagle

 
Artist: Chris Cagle
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  • Born: November 10, 1968, DeRidder, LA
  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Country
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Play It Loud", "Anywhere But Here", "Chris Cagle
  • Representative Songs: "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out", "My Love Goes on and On", "What a Beautiful Day

Biography

When he was four years old, Chris Cagle moved from Louisiana to the outskirts of Houston, where he grew up. He began taking guitar lessons at six, but gave them up after a year. He took piano lessons during high school and returned to the guitar in his senior year. After high school, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Arlington, but dropped out at 19 to pursue a musical career. He moved to Nashville in 1994 and struggled for five years. His earliest songs were published by famed Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard, after which he landed a publishing deal and placed some of his songs with David Kersh. He was discovered by the assistant to the president of Virgin Records Nashville, whom he met in a restaurant where he was working. Virgin signed him and released his debut single, "My Love Goes on and On," which reached the country charts in July 2000, eventually peaking in the Top 20. His first album, Play It Loud, followed in October. It reached the country charts, and its track "Laredo" made the country Top 40. In 2001, Cagle switched from Virgin to Capitol Records (both are subsidiaries of EMI), and his new label reissued Play It Loud in June 2001 with two bonus tracks. A self-titled album came in 2003, followed by Anywhere But Here in 2005, which reached the Top 40. My Life's Been a Country Song appeared in 2008. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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Chris Cagle
Birth name Christian Cagle[1]
Born November 10, 1968 (1968-11-10) (age 41)
Origin DeRidder, Louisiana, USA
Genres Country
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar[1]
Years active 1996-present
Labels Virgin, Capitol Nashville
Associated acts David Kersh
Website http://chriscagle.com

Christian "Chris" Cagle (born November 10, 1968 in DeRidder, Louisiana[2]) is an American country music artist. Signed with Virgin Records in 2000, Cagle made his debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts with the single "My Love Goes On and On", the first single from his debut album Play It Loud. The album, which was certified gold in the United States, also produced the Top 10 hit "Laredo" and "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out", his only Number One hit.

Play It Loud was followed in 2002 by Chris Cagle, released on Capitol Records. Also a gold album in the U.S., it produced the Top 5 hits "What a Beautiful Day" and "Chicks Dig It". Anywhere but Here, his third compilation, followed in 2005 and produced the #12-peaking "Miss Me Baby". A fourth studio album, titled My Life's Been a Country Song, was released in 2008, and its lead-off single, "What Kinda Gone", peaked at #3 on the country music charts in early 2008. Overall, his albums have accounted for thirteen singles, of which all but one have charted.

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Biography

Chris Cagle was born in DeRidder, Louisiana on November 10, 1968;[2] by the time he was four years old, his family moved to Sugarland, Texas, just outside of Houston, Texas. He stayed there until moving to Baytown, Texas in high school.[3][1] During his high school years, he took piano lessons before switching to guitar. After graduating high school, he attended University of Texas at Arlington for one year. Cagle later dropped out of college. He currently lives in southern Oklahoma, not far from the Winstar Casino

Musical career

For the next five years he worked odd jobs throughout Nashville, eventually landing a songwriting deal and co-writing album tracks for David Kersh.[2] While working at a restaurant, he was discovered by an agent of the newly-formed Nashville division of Virgin Records, and was signed to a recording deal with the label in 2000.[3]

2000-2002: Play It Loud

Cagle's first album, Play It Loud, was issued in mid-2000. Serving as its lead-off single was "My Love Goes On and On", which reached a peak of #15 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, while "Laredo", its follow-up, became his first Top Ten hit in mid-2001. After Virgin closed in 2001, the album was re-issued on Capitol Records with "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out" (which was also one of the songs that he had written for David Kersh in the late 1990s) added as a bonus track. Cagle's rendition became his first Number One hit in early 2002. By the end of the year, Play It Loud had been certified gold in the United States.

2003-2004: Chris Cagle

Capitol released Cagle's second album, Chris Cagle, in the middle of 2003. His second consecutive gold album, it produced the Top 5 singles "What a Beautiful Day" and "Chicks Dig It", as well as the #39-peaking "I'd Be Lying".

In early 2004, Cagle was diagnosed with multiple anomalies on his vocal cords, including a polyp, a lesion, a vocal fold cyst, and a granuloma. The diagnosis forced Cagle to cancel nearly twenty appearances that year, including opening dates for Rascal Flatts.[4] He was ordered sixty days of vocal rest, although he did not sing for nearly three months after the diagnosis.[5]

2005-2006: Anywhere But Here

After his vocal recovery, Cagle began work on his third studio album, Anywhere but Here, which was released in 2005. "Miss Me Baby" served as the album's first single, reaching a peak of #12 on the country music charts. The other two singles — "Wal-Mart Parking Lot" and the title track, which had also been a single for Brice Long in 2005 — both failed to enter the Top 40.

In August 2006, a Nashville judge ordered Cagle to pay approximately $737,000 to former manager Mark Hybner, whom Chris had sued in 2004 in an effort to void management and publishing deals he had signed in 1999.[6]

2007-present: My Life's Been a Country Song

Chris' eleventh single, a song entitled "What Kinda Gone", was released to country radio in late 2007. Peaking at #3 on the country charts, it was the lead-off single to his fourth studio album My Life's Been a Country Song, which was released on February 19, 2008. The second single from the album, "No Love Songs", was released in May 2008, which debuted and peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts for the week of May 24, 2008. "Never Ever Gone", the third single, was released in August 2008, which failed to chart, and Cagle parted ways with Capitol Nashville shortly afterward.[7]

Personal life

Cagle graduated Ross S. Sterling High school (Baytown) in 1987. He married Elizabeth Filer in 2001, but the marriage ended in divorce a short time later. On October 3, 2005, he announced on his web site that he was not the biological father of his then-girlfriend's baby.[8] Chris is a brother of the Missouri Theta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta.

Discography

Chris Cagle discography
Releases
Studio albums 4
Singles 13
Music videos 8
No.1 Single 1

Studio albums

Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US US Heat CAN Country
2000 Play It Loud[A]
  • Released: October 24, 2000
  • Label: Virgin Nashville
19 164 3 *
  • US: Gold
2003 Chris Cagle
  • Released: April 1, 2003
  • Label: Capitol Nashville
1 15 *
  • US: Gold
2005 Anywhere but Here
  • Released: October 4, 2005
  • Label: Capitol Nashville
4 24 *
2008 My Life's Been a Country Song
  • Released: February 19, 2008
  • Label: Capitol Nashville
1 8 31
— denotes the album failed to chart, not released, or not certified
* denotes releases with unknown peak positions
Notes
  • A ^ Play It Loud was re-issued in 2001 on Capitol Nashville with two tracks added.

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country US US
Pop
CAN Country CAN
2000 "My Love Goes On and On" 15 76 * Play It Loud
"Laredo" 8 60 *
2001 "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out"[A] 1 35 *
2002 "Country by the Grace of God" 33 *
2003 "What a Beautiful Day" 4 41 * Chris Cagle
"Chicks Dig It" 5 53 *
2004 "I'd Be Lying" 39
2005 "Miss Me Baby" 12 67 100 29 Anywhere but Here
2006 "Wal-Mart Parking Lot" 42
"Anywhere but Here" 52
2007 "What Kinda Gone" 3 54 96 4 69 My Life's Been a Country Song
2008 "No Love Songs" 53
"Never Ever Gone"
"—" denotes the single failed to chart or was not released to that format
* denotes releases with unknown peak positions
Notes
  • A ^ "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out" is only on later presses of Play It Loud.

Music videos

Year Video Director
2000 "My Love Goes On and On" Eric Welch
2001 "Laredo"
"I Breathe In, I Breathe Out"
2002 "Country by the Grace of God"
2003 "What a Beautiful Day" Eric Welch/Chris Cagle
"Chicks Dig It" Peter Zavadil
2005 "Miss Me Baby" Eric Welch
2006 "Wal-Mart Parking Lot"[9]

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