A gold album in the United States, it produced the Top 5 hits "What a Beautiful Day" and "Chicks Dig It".
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 No.
Christopher Norris Cagle was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, on November 10, 1968;[3] by the time he was 4, his family had moved to Sugar Land, Texas, just outside Houston.
He skipped his finance courses to audit music classes, and performed at night in nearby clubs.
[5] Cagle later dropped out of college and moved to Nashville in 1994 at the behest of entertainment attorney Rod Phelps.
Phelps hired Cagle as a nanny for his and wife Sheila Wagnon's three daughters, Shayna, Ashley, and Tiffany.
One big break came when he met the legendary Harlan Howard, who was so impressed with Chris's songwriting progress that he was the first to publish one of his songs.
[5] For the next five years he worked odd jobs throughout Nashville, eventually landing a songwriting deal and co-writing album tracks for David Kersh.
His second consecutive gold album, it produced the Top 5 singles "What a Beautiful Day" and "Chicks Dig It", as well as the No.
[4] In 2003, Cagle also performed "Don't Ask Me No Questions" for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie soundtrack; it plays during the end credits of the film.
The diagnosis forced him to cancel nearly twenty appearances that year, including opening dates for Rascal Flatts.
3, 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.
He married school teacher Elizabeth Filer on September 10, 2001, in Houston, Texas, but the marriage ended in divorce in 2003.
[13][14][15] In December 2010, Cagle married his second wife, Kay, and became a stepfather to Khloe, her daughter from a previous marriage.