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Caleb Gordon

musical artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ134381560
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Caleb Henry Gordon I (born April 13, 2000 (2000-04-13)) is an American rapper from Ocoee, Florida. He is best known for his 2024 singles "War" and "God Is Good" (with Forrest Frank), which peaked at numbers 24 and 8 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart, respectively.

Career

Caleb Gordon first began releasing secular music in 2018 while attending Ocoee High School under the stage name Cash G, and later YTM Cash. In 2020, he began releasing Christian music, after being converted to Christianity.

In 2021, Gordon released three studio albums, Before the Garden volumes 1–4. The first volume was released on March 28, 2021 (2021-03-28), the second on April 6, 2021 (2021-04-06), and the third released on April 20, 2021 (2021-04-20). Although no fourth volume was officially released, the fifth volume was released on June 9, 2023 (2023-06-09).

In 2024, Gordon released the single "War". It peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs, becoming his first entry into the Billboard charts.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Caleb Gordon” as musical artist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2024, 2018, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Caleb, Gordon and musical can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as musical artist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q134381560. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2024, 2018 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Caleb Gordon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.