Amy Grant

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Biography

Amy Grant is an American singer/songwriter and musician.

Amy Lee Grant was born on 25 November 1960 in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA and is the daughter of Gloria Dean (Napier, 1931-2011) and Burton Paine Grant (1931-2018).

She is a pioneer of the Contemporary Christian Music genre, having sold 30 million albums over her 3 decades in the business. She has won 22 Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and had the first Christian album ever to go platinum.

She later crossed over to have success as a pop artist and earned 6 Grammy awards. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She is a generous philanthropist, supporting many causes and emergencies.

Amy Lee Grant first married on 19 Jun 1982 to Gary Chapman, a gospel singer/songwriter.

In the 1990s, she generated a firestorm of controversy when she divorced her first husband and subsequently remarried in March 2000 in Tennessee, USA to country superstar, Vince Gill.

Sample songs

• Father's Eyes (her first hit)
• Baby, Baby (w/Peter Cetera, a pop crossover hit, written for her firstborn child)
• I Need a Silent Night
• Tender Tennessee Christmas.

Sources

• AllMusic.com for Amy Grant

• Wikidata: Item Q464213, en:Wikipedia for Amy Grant