Dax's career is proof that you can be exactly the artist you want to be and find success your own way. The Nigerian-Canadian singer and rapper was born in St. John's, but spent most of his childhood ...

Dax, a Nigerian-Canadian poet and rapper, calls from a phone number with a Wichita, Kansas, area code to speak with The Tennessean about his outsider-to-insider rise in country music's mainstream.

Dax Riggs, the gritty ex-frontman for psych-metal act Acid Bath and acclaimed blues-rock duo deadboy & the Elephantmen, is back August 3 with his second solo album, Say Goodnight to the World.