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Originally Posted by Suicane75
So she's not even particularly famous?
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Depends on how you define it I suppose.
They were a nice but faintly on the radar family act that came into mainstream country after several albums on bluegrass label Sugar Hill. Had one reasonably successful hit prior to her diagnosis.
They then had the #1 country & christian album in the same week late last year.
I'll let you do the math.
edit to add: And, look, it's awful that she's dying. And in rough fashion to boot. And I feel for them -- my wife's own cancer diagnosis was when Will was still in first grade -- I really do get the heartstrings & all.
But it sucks when anybody is in this situation, and it's far from unique. That it has become such a social media thing, almost a spectacle, is the combination of people just loving celebrities (even when they have to inflate that status) AND what I feel like is a very carefully managed marketing campaign.