The trip gave Kadillac and Morris hope during a dark time and a new type of confidence to go take on the rest of the world. But the project has always meant so much more to Kadillac than accolades, and that was affirmed during his time in South Africa. In the years that have followed, the duo has garnered Gold (and now Platinum) singles accumulated tens of millions of streams played sold out shows, and won numerous Canadian awards-including a coveted JUNO.

Neon Dreams has been his vessel since 2013. “I feel like I need to get out the message to people who are like me, because I don’t know anybody else who’s doing it.” “My main goal has been to reach as many people as I can and spread a positive message,” he says.

The singer knows all about overcoming hardships-he endured abuse growing up, never stayed in one place long enough to make friends, and went to 10 different schools-but Kadillac persevered, and now uses music to help others find their way, too. “They showed us that our music really helped them through a hard time.” Every show was so loud from people yelling our lyrics back to us that it was hard for our sound guy to mix the show,” he recalls. “It was like taking a shot of adrenaline to the heart. With the world being in lockdown for more than a year, Kadillac wasn’t sure if the shows would be awkward or even more energetic than usual. Neon Dreams spent the month of May playing 16 shows around the country, all of which sold out-some in as quickly as five minutes.

The song ended up getting so big that it went Platinum in South Africa, and the duo knew they needed to go visit their new fanbase. South Africa is 12,075 kilometers away from Neon Dreams’ hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia, so when Frank Kadillac and Adrian Morris saw streaming numbers for their single “Life Without Fantasies” spike a year after its initial release, they were shocked to see that its life had been rejuvenated in a place they had never even visited before.

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