Band CAIN Explains How Getting Back to Christ Saved Their Music Career
By Movieguide® Contributor
The siblings behind the contemporary Christian band CAIN explained how putting God first in their lives ended up being the best thing for their careers.
After placing music as the first thing in their life and failing to find meaningful success, CAIN decided to call it quits and move on to different careers. As they took a step back from music, the first thing they decided to reintroduce into their lives was church.
“We decided, we’re gonna go back to church and the foundation that we were raised on, let’s give that another shot,” Taylor Cain told TBN. “Because, in pursuing your dreams – and this isn’t just for music – in pursuing any career, you give it your best shot but if it pulls you away from Sunday mornings and it pulls you away from the community of believers, it just doesn’t end well most times.”
“We were still walking with the Lord [and] we loved Jesus, but we had lost a few of those things; the evidence and the fruit in our lives quickly goes to anxiety, depression, fear, just not joy, peace, love: the things that are promised,” Taylor continued.
As the siblings got plugged back into a congregation and began to find life again, they still shied away from music. They began to volunteer at their church but stayed away from joining the worship band. However, the church found out they had done music in the past and asked them if they would begin to lead on stage.
After a few months of helping with worship, the three siblings found their groove and began to wonder if maybe they were meant to create music, just not to place it above Christ.
“It just gave so much purpose to what we had been through,” Logan Cain said.
Around that time, they got connected with a music manager who also attended that church. He asked the siblings to share some of their music with him. After they sent him the old country songs they had written, he asked them to try their hand at Christian music – something they had avoided in the past for fear of feeling constrained.
Instead, what they found was freedom and more creativity than they had felt before. This quickly led to a song, and only three months later, they signed their first record deal.
“If anything, it shows you about this getting in line with the will of God,” said Madison Johnson. “You know, not that it makes everything easier but you can just feel this wind behind your back of the pleasure of God.
CAIN now has millions of fans and helps them connect with God daily. They have also headlined a nationwide tour, through which they have shared the goodness of God and the impact that Christ has had on their lives.
“In their career to date, they’ve won a K-LOVE Fan Award for Top Breakout Single “Rise Up (Lazarus)” and have been nominated for an American Music Award (AMA) and Billboard Music Award,” their website reads.
They recently released a new song called “Friend In Jesus.”
“We pray this song reminds you that you have a Savior, a Shepherd, a Healer, and a FRIEND in Jesus Christ!” they posted on Instagram along with a video from the song.
Movieguide® previously reported:
Siblings Taylor, Logan and Madison, who make up the band CAIN, recently shared their experience performing with veteran singer Chris Tomlin as well as balancing family life and touring.
“Chris Tomlin is one of the people that is the reason that I’m making Jesus music at all,” Logan toldEditor-In-Chief of Worship Leader Magazine Joshua Swanson. “If I were a crew person on this tour, I would have been elated.”
“It’s so bizarre to actually kind of get to know somebody, and you get a little more comfortable seeing them, but whenever they sing, you’re like, ‘I’m 10,’” added Madison.
The “How Great Is Our God” singer is not the only one the Alabama trio is traveling with. All three decided to bring their young children along on tour as well. Taylor, mom to daughter Stevie, said that balancing work and family is tricky but that she would not feel “complete” without having her and the nephew and nieces in tow.
“It’s crazy to even think of a time when it was just the three of us, like, what did we do all day,” Taylor joked.
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