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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.
Credit: livedaily.com
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