By David Knox
Byron Cage nets his second No. 1 on Billboard's Gospel Airplay chart (dated April 3), as "I Can't Give Up" ascends to the summit. The song, which he wrote solo, increased by 12% in plays in the week ending March 28, according to MRC Data.
The Atlanta-based Cage last led Gospel Airplay in 2006, when his second entry, "I Will Bless the Lord," reigned for seven frames beginning that April.
“Cage's 13 Gospel Airplay entries include seven top 10s. Before his new leader, "Oh How Good It Is" peaked at No. 10 last April.”
Byron Louis Cage (born December 15, 1962) is an American gospel recording artist.
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Known as the "Prince of Praise," celebrated gospel singer Byron Cage has been performing and recording songs since the 1980s and has become known for a self-described "cross-cultural, mass-appeal praise and worship" style that has kept his albums in the Billboard Gospel Top Ten almost continuously since it began in 2003. Cage is minister of music at the mega church, Ebenezer African Methodist Epsicopal (AME) Church in Fort Washington, Maryland. Since releasing his debut album, Dwell Among Us, in 1995 he has helped "praise and worship" music to become a major force among gospel musicians. Cage has served in two mega churches, helping them to grow and sustain large congregations with his charismatic style. In his ten years at Atlanta's New Birth Cathedral, Cage helped expand the church from a small congregation of 700 worshippers into a mega church of over 16,000 members.
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Byron Cage grew up in a Christian family and attended church as a child, being influenced in particular by Bishop Abney. He spent his early years in Grand Rapids before moving to Detroit, Michigan, with his family at the age of 12. He recalled for Christianity Today that it was in the Pentecostal church there that he first experienced the form of worship that would become known in the 1990s as "Praise and Worship." He attended Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and at age 23 won a scholarship to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. There he also began attending Bishop Eddie Long's church, the New Birth Cathedral, then known as the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Bishop Long later presided over Cage's marriage to Sonya Windham Cage, a pediatric dentist, in 2004.
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