Chase Rice Explains Winding Road to Country Music

Posted Jun 14, 2018
Chase Rice initially planned on playing in the NFL after college at the University of North Carolina, then worked for NASCAR, and also was the runner-up on Survivor in 2010. So perhaps the person most surprised that he has a successful country music career is Rice. Rice took a winding road to get to where he is in country music, but he wouldn't have it any other way. (PopCulture.com)

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