Cat Janice, who made viral track for son throughout most cancers battle, dies

Cat Janice, who went viral for dedicating her ultimate track to her son throughout her grueling most cancers battle, has died. She was 31.

Janice’s household introduced the information of her passingon her Instagram.

“This morning, from her childhood residence and surrounded by her loving household, Catherine peacefully entered the sunshine and love of her heavenly creator,” stated the assertion. 

“We’re eternally grateful for the outpouring of affection that Catherine and our household have obtained over the previous few months. Cat noticed her music go locations she by no means anticipated and rests within the peace of understanding that she is going to proceed to offer for her son by means of her music. This is able to not have been attainable with out all of you,” the household stated.

After posting that “most cancers has gained,” Janice requested social media customers in January for assist pre-saving her final track, “Dance You Outta My Head,” with all proceeds going to her 7-year-old son Loren. She posted an replace that very same day that she had entered hospice at residence.

Janice obtained an outpouring of help, as “Dance You Outta My Head” climbed to No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard High 50. The track has garnered almost 12.9 million streams on Spotify as of Thursday morning.

“I by no means thought I might dwell to see the day the place my artwork is No. 1 Billboard charting. Thanks. Thanks for giving us this second at such a time,” Janice had written on Instagram in February.

In a ultimate Instagram submit from the singer, Janice posted a canopy of her track by one other artist, Sarah Cothran.

“The previous few weeks have been so arduous for me. I am unable to stroll, trapped in my physique. It has been emotionally probably the most troublesome factor I’ve needed to undergo,” Janice captioned the submit. “However this lovely cowl jogged my memory the importance of this track. Quickly I can be free … hovering within the subsequent dimension, glowing like 1,000,000 fireflies, flying by means of the heavens, dancing with God and my Nonnie. This track jogged my memory that is coming.”

After discovering a lump in her neck months prior, Janice was first recognized in 2022 with a uncommon aggressive most cancers known as sarcoma, a kind of malignant tumor that rises in bones and connective tissue. She underwent surgical procedure, traveled lots of of miles from D.C. to New York for therapy, and stated the chemotherapy and radiation had been maybe worse than the most cancers itself.

Via ache, hope and resilience, Janice was impressed to launch her first album, “Fashionable Drugs,” final summer time.

Janice was declared cancer-free in 2023, however the sickness got here again with a vengeance. Regardless of her declining well being, she married her husband Kyle Higginbotham on the finish of the yr, saying on Instagram, “he has given me a present that I do know transcends area and time and can final without end.”

With what she got here to study was little time left, Janice launched “Dance You Outta My Head” a day earlier than her thirty first birthday this yr. The track initially started as a mother-son bonding second, with little Loren showing on the observe. It grew to become the ultimate piece she left for the world, and her son.

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