Cat Janice.Photo:Cat Janice/Instagram
Cat Janice/Instagram
On Wednesday, musicianCat Janicedied from cancer.
“We are eternally thankful for the outpouring of love that Catherine and our family have received over the past few months,” the post continued. “Cat saw her music go places she never expected and rests in the peace of knowing that she will continue to provide for her son through her music. This would not have been possible without all of you.”
The Washington, DC local’s cancer journey began in November 2021, when she first felt a lump in her neck, as she explained onTikTok.At first, she thought nothing of it, but in March of the following year, she realized the lump was still there. “It was larger and it was very hard,” she said in a video at the time.
In June, Cat Janice shared on Instagram that the cancer had returned.Cat Janice/Instagram
Earlier this year, Janice returned to social media to share with her followers that the cancer had returned.
On Jan. 10,she entered hospiceafter no longer being able to breathe in the ICU, she previously told PEOPLE. She transferred all her songs to her son’s name, so all proceeds would go to Loren.
“Everyone knows that I’ve been battling cancer for a while and I wanted to put this song out, and just go stream it. I hope you like it. I don’t know if I’m going to be around even when the song comes out, so let’s just put it out. And I did,” she says.
“The idea for the song, ‘Dance You Outta My Head,’ came about last spring,” she said. She and Loren were “bopping around in the car” and enjoying the warm weather through the windows.
“We came up with some fun lyrics and a little ditty,” she continued. “I song banked it and made a little voice note of it and as time went on, we would bounce around in the car to it every now and then.”
Cat Janice poses with a music award from her hospital bed.Cat Janice/Instagram
On Jan. 23, she found out her song was charting on iTunes.
“I was sitting there in the middle of the night looking at my phone — what the heck is going on here?” she recalled. “I started yelling and my parents came down, they were like, what is going on?”
“I just wanted to put out something fun and positive,” she said. “My art is all I have to leave behind.”
source: people.com
