Country sensation Oliver Anthony leaving industry one year after meteoric rise to start traveling ministry

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Country star Oliver Anthony, who rose to fame last year with his song 'Rich Men North of Richmond,' said this week that he's leaving the music industry to become a traveling minister.

Country sensation Oliver Anthony has decided to leave the music industry. In a lengthy YouTube video this week, the 32-year-old, whose real name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford and who rose to fame a year ago with his hit song 'Rich Men North of Richmond,' sat in a wooded area with his two dogs opining on life and his career. 'I’ve decided that moving forward, I don’t need a Nashville management company. I don’t even need to exist within the space of music.

’m just somebody who thinks the whole way we live is a--backward and so stupid, and it serves nobody but the people at the top of the hierarchy that we no longer really need to serve,' he explained. Spending the last year in the music industry 'has opened my eyes to how much control and how much visibility there is on the top down,' he added. 'Like, the analytics that I can pull on just my fan base is terrifying.

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