Garth Brooks is a pivotal figure in the history of country music, no matter how much some country purists would like to deny it. Garth Brooks brought country music to a new audience in the 90’s, namely a mass audience. Garth Brooks is the son of Troyal and Colleen Carroll Brooks. Colleen was a country singer herself; she recorded a handful of records for Capitol in the mid 50’s that never experienced any success in the charts. Garth Brooks received a partial athletic scholarship at Oklahoma State University as a javelin tosser, but he wounded up dropping the sport during his collegiate career. However, while he was at college Garth Brooks began singing in local Oklahoma clubs, often with the lead guitarist Ty England.
In December of 1984 Garth Brooks graduated with an advertising degree; after he tried to decide to try to forge out a career as a country singer. Then in 1985 he traveled to Nashville with hopes of being discovered by a record label. Within 23 hours of arriving in Nashville Garth Brooks returned to Oklahoma, frustrated with the industry, his prospects, and his naïve dreams. Garth Brooks continued to perform in Oklahoma clubs, but in 1986 he married his college girlfriend Sandy Mahl.
Garth Brooks recorded his first album with producer Allen Reynolds at the end of 1988, the self-titled debut appeared early in 1989. This album was an instant success, with its first single “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)”, which climbed into the country Top Ten. Garth Brooks had three other hit singles; the number one “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” the number two “Not Counting you,” and the number one “The Dance;” but it was his second album, No Fences, that established him as a superstar. No Fences was released in the fall of 1990, preceded by the massive hit single “Friends in Low Places.” This album spent 23 weeks at the top of the country charts and sold 700,000 copies within the first ten days of its release; but by the year 1993 No Fences would sell over ten million copies. In 1990 and 1991 Garth Brooks had a string of number one country hits from this album including “Unanswered Prayers,” “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House,” and “The Thunder Rolls.”
Garth Brooks is an amazing artist who has so many hits it is unbelievable. Here is a chart of the awards Garth Brooks has won, because there was so many I decided to put them into a chart to make it easier to read.
Cagle enrolled in to the University of Texas-Arlington; however he soon found himself skipping his finance class to audit music classes.
A few years later Cagle had the pleasure to meet Donna Duarte at a restaurant he was working at, she was really interested in music, so he invited her to come to the studio to hear him record some demos. Duarte loved the music she heard Cagle play and decided to take the demos to her boss; Cagle did not know that Duarte was the assistant to Scott Hendricks.
Cagle has been releasing albums since the year 200.
Cagle has a few songs that are very well known, these songs include “Play it loud,” “Lovin’ You Lovin’ Me,” “It Takes Two,” “Chicks Dig It,” “What kind of Gone,” “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “Wal-Mart Parking Lot,” “Miss Me Baby,” “Hey Ya’ll,” and “No Love Songs.” For this writer “No Love Songs” is one of her favorite songs composed by Chris Cagle because of the meaning behind it. The meaning is worry about everything in life not just the love part, because there is more to life than just being in love, there is having fun and living life by the moments. 
Cagle has unfortunately only received one award, this was in 2002. At the CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards, Cagle won the Breakthrough video of the Year. Cagle has two websites for fans.
Cagle has a few related artists for those listeners that like him and want to hear other artists like him. These artists are Brad Paisley, Chris LeDoux, Garth Brooks, Gary Allan, Joe Nichols, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Randy Houser, and Vince Gill. 