 When he was four years old,
Chris Cagle moved from Louisiana to the outskirts of
Houston, where he grew up.
Chris Cagle began taking guitar lessons at
six, but gave them up after a year.
Chris Cagle 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.
Chris Cagle moved to Nashville in 1994
and struggled for five years. His earliest songs were
published by famed Nashville songwriter
Harlan Howard, after which
Chris Cagle 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
Chris Cagle 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,
Chris 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. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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