Who Is Cat Janice? US Singer's Last Song For 7 YO Son Tops Charts

Cat Janice, a singer from the United States, who is battling cancer signed the rights to her latest song to her 7-year-old son before entering hospice. According to the US news platform Today, the 31-year-old mom wanted to leave her son, Loren, something lasting before she died and urged listeners to stream her work as much as possible. The upbeat number, Dance You Outta My Head, is now ranked eleventh on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic chart and Janice has been named in the Top 40 Charting artists, thanks to social media spreading the word.

Soon after Janice posted about the song to TikTok, netizens became good samaritans and used it in their videos, sharing positive thoughts and wishing Loren well. Speaking to Today, Janice said, "I’m just honestly so blown away by everyone’s love and how they’ve supported me through this and shared this story. I really wasn’t expecting to be here (being a viral musician). I really do believe it’s a miracle to be able to witness this. I'm just very happy to be here."

Cat Janice's Battle With Cancer

Cat Janice, who lives in Virginia, found a lump in her neck in November 2021. She had recently recovered from COVID-19 and assumed the swelling was caused by that. "I didn't think anything of it. Fast-forward to March of 2022 ... I was studying for an exam and when I'm anxious I kind of rub my neck ... and I noticed the lump was still there," she said in a 2022 TikTok video.

She explained that the lump was now "bigger and very hard... It did not move and it did not hurt." Janice's blood test reports came back normal and she had no symptoms other than "constant" tight knots in her shoulder, neck and back. When she got them checked, the lump turned out to be a tumour. "Long story short, I ended up with this really random, weird rare tumour... I never would have noticed if I hadn't been anxiously rubbing my neck," Janice shared on TikTok.

Janice was diagnosed with sarcoma, a cancer that develops in the muscles, tissues, and blood vessels. Her son, Loren, was five years old at the time. Speaking to Today, she said, "(My son) was so young when I was first diagnosed so we didn't really talk about it. He's a little bit older now and can understand more but it's always been, 'Mommy is sick but she's fighting and working to beat it.' Now, he understands that Mommy is very ill and very much potentially not going to make it."

The tumour was surgically removed and Janice underwent radiation and chemotherapy. However, in May last year, the cancer returned in her lungs. "The tumours tripled basically overnight," she said on TikTok. Janice has been in hospice care since January 10 and wants her family to remember her for her positivity and creativity. 

Leaving A Legacy Behind

The song Dance You Outta My Head is about "Feeling yourself, you're at the top of your mood. You're out on the town and maybe there's ... somebody you got a crush on, but you're not thinking about it tonight because tonight is about you," Janice told Today. Her TikToks have been widely shared and netizens are using them as a space to share their experience with the deadly disease.

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"Cancer sucks. I lost my mom to it when I was pregnant with my son ... and this kind of thing would have lifted our spirits," one woman who reposted Janice's TikTok video to her page said. Another remarked, "As a mama who was diagnosed with cancer and is now in remission, my heart broke when I heard that the mama who wrote this song is dying because of cancer and has left the rights to her 7-year-old son," wrote another mother.