LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Just three weeks ago, Oliver Anthony made waves in the music industry with the debut of his track "Rich Men North of Richmond" on YouTube. Notably, his wife is recognized as Tiffany Lunsford.
However, very little is known about his personal life other than the singer has two dogs that were seen on the official video of the Chartbuster song.
How many children does Oliver Anthony have?
Oliver Anthony with his wife Tiffany Lunsford is due to have the third child in November, and they already have two kids, as reported by NewYorkPost.
Anthony is the stage name of Chris Lunsford, who grew up about an hour away as the only child of Connie and Steve Lunsford.
Where was Oliver Anthony working in his early days?
According to his Facebook posts, he dropped out of high school and worked in factories in Marion County, NC until 2013, when he was injured on the job and moved back to Virginia.
The singer, whose real name is Christopher Lunsford, then uploaded the song and several others to streaming services in the days that followed. As a result, the streaming charts were quickly dominated.
Who inspired Oliver Anthony's stage name?
Anthony Oliver Ingle, his grandfather who died in 2019 at the age of 86, inspired his stage name. Anthony Ingle was named after his grandfather, a Confederate veteran whom he never met, and his grandfather's upbringing in impoverished Appalachian Virginia during the Depression inspired him.
On Saturday, he shared a photo of a framed poem he received from his grandfather.
Was Oliver Anthony a salesman in his early life?
Anthony wrote on his Facebook page on August 17 that he was a salesman for ten years with substance abuse and mental health issues who now lives on 90 acres he purchased in 2019 "in a 27′ camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of Craigslist for $750."
Where does Oliver Anthony currently live?
His Facebook page lists Farmville as his current location, but few people in town seem to know him, and he has no family ties here. His last known address was next door to his parents' house, 65 miles to the east in North Dinwiddie.
Anthony has a devoted following, but the response to his song has been mixed. Anthony was initially embraced as a voice for conservative, rural America, with his words taken up as a rebuke of President Biden's administration and the Democrats — prompting a backlash from liberals who claimed Anthony was a phony, molded and propelled to the top by shadowy right-wing interests.
On Friday, he abruptly abandoned his conservative base. Anthony posted a message on YouTube criticizing both Republicans and Democrats for attempting to use "Rich Men North of Richmond" to their advantage.
