Gibbons from ZZ Top who is also from Texas
gonna get things right the first go”.
and the list goes on because there’s so many
unfortunately, and someone got out of the car
and asked me, “Hey can we get a picture?”
musicians from Texas. Those guys were my [WM] What advice would you have for other It’s a weird deal, cause when I was a kid all I
earlier influences. Country music came earlier contestants trying out for the show? wanted was to be a rock star, but now it’s all
in my life even before I started playing music.
about wanting people to know who Jesus is.
I listened to people like Glenn Campbell and [Cade] When we (Cade and the top 7) did And speaking of how it has affected me in the
George Strait and little did I know the shaping the American Idol tour in 2018 after the season music business, it’s definitely made it an easier
effect it would have on me now because of ended, we had a lot of young people come up thing to get through. I figured American Idol the
country music. Now I’m doing more southern to us to ask us for advice. My general answer right place to get noticed especially in the place
rock and country… those earlier country was stuff like, “know what you’re about”, “know where I’m from… where you’re not gonna get
influences are showing up in my music that I’m what you’re singing” and all that stuff. But the noticed.
doing right now. root of everything that I would tell people is, “Do you know why you’re doing this?”. And [WM] You share your faith openly in your
[WM] What were you doing to follow a path to eventually it would lead me to tell people, “Do mainstream concerts. Tell us about your
a music career and how then did the American you know Christ and are you eager to use your approach to that?
Idol opportunity come about? gifts to point it back to him?” So that was the
advice I gave to people.
[Cade] There’s two things I want to make
[Cade] I started to follow a path to music
clear on my approach to sharing my faith.
gigging in my hometown in bars where they [WM] How has the TV show affected what would let underage people like me and my you can do now as a touring musician and One, is that I feel that Christians in the music
friends from my high school band in and play. I recording artist? realm - either secular or Christian - should be
kept continuing to do that until it got to a point
the best musicians, the best artists, the best
where I went, “Well, I’ve got to do something [Cade] The show has affected everything in homemakers… because we know what true
else or I won’t get anywhere”. So that naturally my life. It’s still such a heavily saturated part of beauty is. We know who God is, we know what
led me to American Idol. What people don’t my life. When I go places, people still want to true beauty is because we know Jesus.
know is when I initially tried out for American take photos of me and people still recognize Idol, I got a “no”. Then I tried out for The me from the show.
But nowadays we as Christians seem corny
Voice and got a “no”. And then I auditioned
and make things watered down to suit the
for American Idol again and then I got through Funny story, the other day in Nashville I had just culture rather than being the best in our field.
eventually. It’s a testament of “you’re not always got in a car wreck and rear ended someone We ought to be the top of the crop. And that
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