You probably remember Anita Cochran from her 1997 duet “What If I Said” with Steve Wariner, right? She’s made music since then, and she was actively touring, but it’s been a while since she has put out anything new. Until now.
Her current story started last year when she found a lump in her breast, and she was diagnosed with Stage 2 cancer, which was treated with chemotherapy, which prevented her from touring. That was her only source of income, so her friends, including Steve Wariner, Crystal Gayle, Wade Hayes, Clay Walker, Ty Herndon, Terri Clark, Jamie O’Neal and others put on a benefit concert and raised $12,000 to help her with medical bills and every day life expenses.
She just had her final chemo treatment two weeks ago, after having a double mastectomy and the removal of a lymph node, and she’s been cancer free for a little more than 6 months now.
Now she wants to help others with that fight, so she has created a charity called the Love Anchors Fund, which will be managed by the Community Foundation of Tennessee, and will benefit various charities working to end breast cancer and help its victims and survivors. The first effort to raise money for that fund is the release of a new song called “Fight Like A Girl.” She’s donating all the proceeds from the sale of the song from October 5-12 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation via the Love Anchors Fund.
Check out the video for “Fight Like A Girl” here, listen to it on Slacker’s Nashville Now here, and donate to the Love Anchors Fund here.