{"id":22344,"date":"2024-03-08T22:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=22344"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:51:59","slug":"pop-singer-cat-janice-dies-after-dedicating-her-last-song-to-her-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/pop-singer-cat-janice-dies-after-dedicating-her-last-song-to-her-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop-Singer Cat Janice Dies after Dedicating Her Last Song to Her Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s3\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Dance You Outta My Head - Cat Janice (official song)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lOfNzPM3Qsc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"><br \/>\nIn the official statement released on the singer<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u2019<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C35tAQFxaFb\/?igsh=MXByNGxxOW0wc2N5NA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, her family wrote: <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Cat saw her music go places she never expected and rests in the pe<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">a<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">ce of knowing that she will continue to provide for her son through her music. This would not have been possible without all of you. Thank you.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Cat Janice gained international attention after going viral on TikTok for dedicating her last song <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Dance You Outta My Head <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">to her seven-year-old son. In the short clip that the singer has released on the platform in the beginning of this year, Janice attached a snippet to the song and said that her <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">cancer has won<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">. She her audience to pre-save and stream <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Dance You Outta My Head<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> as much as possible, explaining that the proceeds will go to her son.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The song was inspired by a line, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Dance until you love me<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">, that she and her son were randomly singing over and over while on a drive one day. Since its official release, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Dance You Outta My Head <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">has become one of the most popular songs on TikTok and in the world, ranking number 1 in musical charts in multiple European countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">In 2022 the singer has been diagnosed with a sarcoma, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">a rare aggressive type of cancerous <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">tumour<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> that affects the bone marro<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">w. Despite having a successful treatment of a sarcoma in her neck and being declared free of cancer by her doctors in 2023, her condition worsened again a few months later, when the cancer metastasised in her lungs. Later that year the singer restarted chemotherapy, while continuing to release new music. Knowing that her time was short, Janice became engaged and later married her boyfriend Kyle Higginbotham in December that year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Janice documented the last couple months of her life on TikTok, sharing her feelings about her terminal condition and videos with her son and her family. Online she stayed positive about her fate and would often engaged with her followers. Her last post on TikTok was a duet video of her reacting to a cover of <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Dance You Outta My Head<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> by singer Sarah Cothran. Janice said: <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Soon I will be free&#8230; soaring in the next dimension, glowing like a million fireflies, flying through the heavens, dancing with God and my Nonnie. This song reminded me that<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u2019<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">s coming<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Until the very last moment Cat Janice continued to write and produce music. In the post made after her death her brother confirmed that there will be <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">some more art that she wants to share<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">. According to the information shared by her family, there will be a number of singles released posthumously <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">in due time<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0em;\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American pop-singer Cat Janice died of cancer on February 28 at the age of 31, surrounded by her family in her childhood home in Annandale, Virginia. The tragic news was announced by the singer of the family, who also thanked the singer\u2019s fans for all the love and support that Janice had received over the last few months of her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":22335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,84],"tags":[],"type_post":[],"column":[],"class_list":["post-22344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22344"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=22344"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=22344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}