Who is viral ‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’ singer Oliver Anthony and why is he controversial?
nme.comFacebook. “I don’t want six tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don’t want to play stadium shows, I don’t want to be in the spotlight.”It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week.
The stories that…Posted by Oliver Anthony Music on Thursday, August 17, 2023He continued: “I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression.
These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they’re being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung.
No editing, no agent, no bullshit.“Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.”Here’s everything we know about the singer and why he has been stirring up controversy.Anthony is a former factory worker and farmer, who then decided to become a country singer.“There’s nothing special about me,” he recently wrote on Facebook. “I’m not a good musician, I’m not a very good person.
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