'Dance You Outta My Head' Singer Cat Janice Dies At 31 After Cancer Battle

Viral TikToker and singer Cat Janice tragically lost her battle with cancer on Wednesday morning.

The 31-year-old mom went viral on TikTok in January after releasing her song "Dance You Outta My Head," which was inspired by her son.

On Wednesday afternoon, Janice's brother shared the sad news of her passing on her Instagram page.

"This morning, from her childhood home and surrounded by her loving family, Catherine peacefully entered the light and love of her heavenly creator," he wrote in the caption of a photo of Janice.

"We are eternally thankful for the outpouring of love that Catherine and our family have received over the past few months. 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."

More than 13,000 comments were left in just a few short hours. Fans and followers left words of support and share their condolences for the family.

"Love to Cat for her journey to her perfection. Peace to Cat’s family for every bit of this new path of feeling her all around them as music to a heart. And grace to the community who understands the preciousness of this life and dances to make it better in every moment," one person wrote.

Another added, "Rest peacefully. Thank you for showing us that we can come together in harmony even through music to share love and peace. You will not be forgotten ♥️??."

The beginning of Janice's cancer journey began back in November 2021 when she first found a lump in her neck. A few months later, she shared a video on TikTok explaining what she found.

“There’s no easy way to talk about this, but unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago, I was diagnosed with a synovial sarcoma, what seems to be a sarcoma, which is a muscle cancer,” she explained. “It’s in my neck and it’s very scary. These cancers seem to be rare, so you know, there’s like a one in one million chance of me getting this. Like only a couple hundred people are diagnosed in the U.S. every year with this cancer.”

The viral TikToker was diagnosed with sarcoma, a rare cancer that develops in bones and soft tissues. She underwent surgery, chemo and radiation and became cancer free in July 2022. Less than a year later, she announced that her cancer was back.

On January 10, Janice entered hospice. She revealed that she transferred all her songs to her son Loren, 7, so the proceeds will go to him.

Her final song, "Dance You Outta My Head," has taken over TikTok in the past few weeks. People all over the world wanted to help the song go viral as her last wish and used the song in their content.

"The idea for the song, 'Dance You Outta My Head' came about last spring," she told PEOPLE. "We [her and her son Loren] came up with some fun lyrics and a little ditty. 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."

On January 23, Janice found that 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? I started yelling and my parents came down, they were like, what is going on?" she said. "I just wanted to put out something fun and positive. My art is all I have to leave behind."

According to Billboard, the song topped the TikTok Billboard Top 50 on February 17. It's also reached the top 10 of Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronica Songs chart.