Country Star Oliver Anthony Leaves Music Industry To Start Traveling Ministry

Country star Oliver Anthony has decided to leave the music industry.

The “Rich Men North of Richmond” singer, in a video uploaded on YouTube, shared, “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.”

He added, “So, I’m looking at switching my whole business over to a traveling ministry.”

“I have this vision for this thing that I’m calling the Real Revival Project, and it’s basically going to start as a grassroots music festival,” contiued Anthony.

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Here’s what Fox News reported:

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. So, I’m looking at switching my whole business over to a traveling ministry,” Anthony revealed after discussing how he believes “our system is broken.”

He added that he wants to “kind of keep things in the family business,” noting that his great-grandfather had been a traveling minister.

“I have this vision for this thing that I’m calling the Real Revival Project, and it’s basically going to start as a grassroots music festival, but hopefully it grows into something that can literally change our landscape and our culture and the way we live,” he said in the video posted Tuesday.

Anthony said he’s doing his first “thrown together” show on Saturday, but he wants to create something that exists “parallel to Nashville that circumvents the monopolies of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, and it goes into towns that haven’t had music in them in a long time.”

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Anthony said: “I’m looking at switching my whole business over to a traveling ministry.”

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Here’s what The New York Post reported:

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. So, I’m looking at switching my whole business over to a traveling ministry,” Anthony revealed after discussing how he believes “our system is broken.”

He added that he wants to “kind of keep things in the family business,” noting that his great-grandfather had been a traveling minister.

“I have this vision for this thing that I’m calling the Real Revival Project, and it’s basically going to start as a grassroots music festival, but hopefully it grows into something that can literally change our landscape and our culture and the way we live,” he said in the video posted Tuesday.