{"id":487810,"date":"2019-07-09T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=856897"},"modified":"2019-07-09T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:44:20","slug":"soul-disco-icon-candi-staton-reveals-shes-now-cancer-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/soul-disco-icon-candi-staton-reveals-shes-now-cancer-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul, Disco Icon Candi Staton Reveals She\u2019s Now Cancer-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, the 79-year-old R&B singer Candi Staton<\/a> has revealed that she\u2019s now cancer free after months of chemotherapy and radiation. \u201cSo proud to report I\u2019m free from cancer,\u201d she said over the weekend, sharing news of her remission on her Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThank all of you for your prayers and encouraging words. I love you all so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staton first shared news of her diagnosis in an interview with Rolling Stone<\/em> last fall, shortly after the release of her last album Unstoppable,<\/em> her 30th studio album, produced by Mark Nevers. \u201cYou go through your down days, you go through your pity days,\u201d she said. \u201c<\/a>But then you come up the next day, and you say, \u2018I\u2019m not going to take this.\u2019 You\u2019re not going to take my life. I\u2019m going to fight.’\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent interview<\/a> with Eldredge ATL<\/em>, Staton says that she was motivated to help the disease in large part by the support from thousands of fans she received after going public with her diagnosis last year. \u201cThe encouragement I received\u2026kept me going\u2026I would get up in the morning and look on my Instagram and see, \u2018You got this, Candi. You\u2019re tough!\u2019 I\u2019d think to myself, \u2018Yup, I agree with that. I am<\/em> tough and I\u2019m going to make it through another day.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been through hell and back,\u201d she said in the interview<\/a>, \u201cBut God was there all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, the 79-year-old R&B singer Candi Staton has revealed that she\u2019s now cancer free after months of chemotherapy and radiation. \u201cSo proud to report I\u2019m free from cancer,\u201d she said over the weekend, sharing news of her remission on her Instagram. \u201cThank all of you for your prayers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 00:27:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}