• Faith: Christian
• Career: Musician
• Birthday:  November 25, 1960

Amy Grant is a songwriter, singer, and musician. She started her music career in contemporary Christian music before crossing over to pop music in the mid-1980s. She’s been referred to as “The Queen of Christian Pop.” Grant made her debut as a teenager, gaining fame in Christian music during the 1980s with hits like “El Shaddai,” “Father’s Eyes,” and “Angels.” In the mid-1980s, she started broadening her audience and soon became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums “Unguarded” and “Lead Me On.” In 1986, she scored her first Billboard Hot 100 no. One song in a duet with Peter Cetera, “The Next Time I Fall.”

In 1991, she released the album “Heart in Motion,” which became her best-selling album to date, topping the Billboard Christian album chart for 32 weeks. It sold five million copies in the U.S. and produced her second no. 1 pop single, “Baby Baby,” as well as another three top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: “That’s What Love Is For,” “Every Heartbeat,” and “Good for Me.” As of 2009, Grant has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammys, 22 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album to go platinum. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 for her contributions to the entertainment industry, and in 2022, she was announced as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.

Grant is the author of several books, including a memoir, Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far and a book based on the popular Christmas song “Breath of Heaven (Mary’s Song)” that she co-wrote. Born in Augusta, Georgia, Grant is the youngest of four sisters. Her family settled in Nashville in 1967. She’s the great-granddaughter of Nashville philanthropist A.M. Burton and has acknowledged the influence of the Burtons on her development as a musician, starting with their common membership in Nashville’s Ashwood Church of Christ. In 1976, Grant wrote her first song, “Mountain Top,” performed in public for the first time at Harpeth Hall School, the all-girls school she attended in Nashville. She recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth leader Brown Bannister.

While Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called World Records. He played it over the phone, and Grant was offered a recording contract five weeks before her 16th birthday. In 1977, she recorded her first album, “Amy Grant,” produced by Brown Bannister, who would also produce her next 11 albums. It was released in early 1978, one month before her high school graduation. Toward the end of 1978, she performed her first ticketed concert after beginning her first year at Furman University.

What religion is Amy Grant?

Amy Grant identifies as a Christian. While describing her morning routine, Grant said, “I start every morning with thank-you, thank-you. I'm so thankful to wake up, just to wake up.” She continued, “Every morning, I say thank you, and I love getting a cup of coffee, and I go outside. And if I can, I put my feet on the grass and connect with the beauty of the earth. And I just let my thoughts wander. And then I've done this at different times in my life, and I'm back into this practice, but reading a chapter of the Gospels every day and just the fascination with Jesus’ life. He created such a stir everywhere He went.”