Country musician Oliver Anthony has been married to Tiffany Lunsford for years and the duo share two kids together. Let’s meet his partner and children.
Odds are, by now you’ve heard about that song from a country singer in Farmville, Virginia, who performs under the stage name Oliver Anthony.
Country singer Oliver Anthony joined Twitter in August 2023 under the handle @AintGottaDollar, and within a matter of days he’d already amassed more than 400,000 followers. As of the time of this writing he follows two people, musician Jamey Johnson and Elon Musk. What has propelled this person into near superstardom in such a short time? It’s a little song of his called “Rich Men North of Richmond” and it’s taking conservative social media by storm.
His meteoric rise could be attributed to the fact that this song has been promoted on huge platforms like anti-trans political pundit Matt Walsh and Joe Rogan, a podcaster allergic to fact-checking. Or something far more calculated could be happening.
Given his instant success, and with his name on the lips of supporters and critics alike, many fans are curious to know more about his personal life, especially who his wife is and how many kids he has. Read on for more about him.
Who is Oliver Anthony married to?
Singer Oliver Anthony was born on June 30, 1992, to parents Eunice “Connie” Lunsford (mother) and Stephen Lunsford (father).
Anthony is an American from Farmville, Virginia, U.S. Speaking about his origin, Anthony has said he is Piedmont born and raised, and underscored that Farmville, Virginia, is not in Appalachia.
The entertainer is a school drop out. Anthony dropped out of high school in 2010 at the age of 17. He later secured a General Educational Development diploma and gave up on education and started finding jobs to cater for himself.
In 2021, he started writing songs and in August 2023 he gained worldwide attention for his hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond” which garnered over 32 million views in less than two weeks.
It turns out he is a family man. He’s reportedly a husband and has been married for a while. On top of it all, he is a father, too.
Who is Oliver Anthony’s wife?
Singer Oliver Anthony has been married for years to his wife Tiffany Lunsford, according to a publication by New York Post.
Details about his spouse, including her age, educational background, family, nationality, and more are not known to the general public.
Very little is known about his personal life making it hard to tell more about their love story, like; how they met, when they got married, and how long they’ve been together.
The couple is reportedly parent to two babies.
Does Oliver Anthony have any children?
Singer Oliver Anthony and his wife Tiffany Lunsford reportedly share two children and are expecting their third child soon.
Since he desires to keep details about his personal life, the names and gender of his kids are not known.
Anthony lives with his wife and children in a $750 camper on an off-the-grid property, where he said he intends to raise livestock.
Who is Oliver Anthony? He came from nowhere
Oliver Anthony is an American musician whose musical career started in 2021 and came from nowhere to an overnight success. The singer does country-folk genre songs.
His real name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford Lunsford but adopted his grandfather’s name “Oliver Anthony” as his stage name in homage to the Depression era in which he lived.
He shot to fame with his hit single “Rich Men North of Richmond” which he shared on YouTube and it garnered 32 million views in less than two weeks. And that was just at the beginning of August 2023.
The song debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Anthony the first artist to debut atop the chart without any prior charting history in any form.
In his wildly popular song, Oliver sings, “These rich men north of Richmond / Lord knows they all just wanna have total control.” By all published accounts, he is referring to politicians in Washington, D.C.
He also croons, “I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day / Overtime hours for bulls–t pay / So I can sit out here and waste my life away.”
The earliest song released on his YouTube channel is a cover of Tyler Childers’s “Lady May” that Oliver dropped in August 2020. It has accumulated a modest 4,000 plus views. More recent comments started rolling in the day after Oliver started gaining traction but the last comment he replied to was from 2021.
Interestingly, a full-length version of “Rich Men North of Richmond” is not on Oliver’s YouTube channel. The song was released in its entirety via the @radiowv YouTube channel which features other artists and was “created by two broke college students with a passion for soulful and real music.” Suddenly out of nowhere, social media accounts were sharing this video simultaneously.
Oliver himself then released a nearly 10-minute video back on his channel titled, “It’s a pleasure to meet you.” In it he introduces himself four days before his song was released by @radiowv. “Lord willing, it’s gonna get some traffic,” he says. That’s an oddly social media–centric way to frame the debut of a new song. He’s never felt the need to introduce himself before. It’s almost as if Oliver knows this will have a sizable reach.
Previously, most other songs on the @radiowv channel pull in views that hover around 15,000 to 20,000. Oliver’s has over 9 million. That’s an incredible leap for that channel and for an artist who was not very active on social media. His get-to-know-you video also paints Oliver as a libertarian who claims this song is about human trafficking.