At the age of 31, Cat Janice, the singer who went viral on social media at the beginning of the year, because she wrote a song for her son to have the copyright, died this Wednesday. The news was announced on her social media profile. Since July, the artist had suffered from lung cancer.
“This morning, in her childhood home and surrounded by the love of her family, Catherine peacefully entered the light and love of her heavenly creator,” writes the singer’s brother, also an artist. CUBBY, who now manages Cat Janice’s social media. He continues: “We are forever grateful for the outpouring of love that Catherine and our family have received over the past few months. Cat has seen her music reach places she didn’t expect and rests in peace knowing that she will continue to support her son through her music .This wouldn’t have been possible without all of you.”
The American singer, who reached first place on the Tik Tok Billboard Top 50, left behind a seven-year-old son, to whom she left the copyright of the song that made her viral on social media, since January 19, when she released it.
Dance you outta my headcomposed by Cat Janice, has more than 12 million reproductions on the Spotify, fulfilling the artist’s wish, who wrote on social media at the beginning of the year that she wanted to ensure her son’s support, granting him the copyright of the song. This would be her “ultimate joy”. Then, the singer said she was inspired by a memory with her son, when they were together in a car, in the summer.
Cat Janice Ipsan began her musical career in 2014, with a vocal and piano album, and in 2019 she won a WAMMY (Washington Area Music Award) in the Best Rock Artist category. But it was this year that she became better known after the release of the song and the request to help her son financially.
Alongside his musical career, he was an aerospace information scientist, and in 2022 he had been cured of neck sarcoma, a cancer that affects the tissues that support the human body, unlike the more common ones, which affect superficial parts. However, the disease reappeared in her lungs, and the singer realized that she might not have long to live, so she began releasing new music and documentary your life on social media.