Chase Rice
Fame often has a chilling effect on one’s psyche. However much as he’s done his entire
life, when faced with a No. 1 major label debut album in 2014’s Ignite the Night, as well
as a pair of Top 5 singles with the RIAA Platinum-certified “Ready Set Roll” and Goldcertified
“Gonna Wanna Tonight,” Chase Rice turned his cheek and took the path less
traveled. As he readily recounts, the country music maverick has only grown more selfaware,
mature and grateful in the wake of his success. “I’m a different person in a lot of
ways,” Rice says looking back at his younger self, who moved to Nashville following the
sudden death of his father “having no clue what the hell I was doing,” wrote a batch of
killer songs and went for broke in the country music industry. “I was searching,” Rice
says. “I didn’t know who I was as an artist. But now, it’s a new me. It’s a whole new
deal. Now I know exactly where I am in life.” He laughs. “Well, not exactly. But I’ve got
a better idea, anyway.”