Amy Grant

Amy Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. Grant is considered the best-selling contemporary Christian music singer ever, having sold over 30 million units worldwide.

She has released fourteen studio albums, one extended play, three live albums, three christmas albums, four compilation albums, six video albums and twenty-one music videos, and seventy-one singles. She has won six Grammy Awards, and 25 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005 for her contributions to the entertainment industry.

Grant made her debut as a teenager and by the 1980s had gained fame in Christian music thanks to songs "Father's Eyes", "El Shaddai", and "Angels". In 1986, she scored her first No. 1 single on Billboard Hot 100 in a duet with Peter Cetera "The Next Time I Fall". Grant was becoming more famous in the world of pop with such albums as Unguarded and Lead Me On.

Her eight studio album, Heart in Motion, produced the singles "Baby Baby", "Every Heartbeat", "That's What Love Is For" and "Good for Me", all of which made it into top ten of Billboard Hot 100. The album was certified five-times platinum by Recording Industry Association of America. A Christmas album, Home for Christmas, was released shortly afterwards. Grant went on to release albums House of Love and Behind the Eyes in the mid-ninetees.

Following the 9/11 attacks, Grant's "I Will Remember You" saw a resurgence in popularity as many radio DJs mixed a special tribute version of the song.

Grant would host Three Wishes, in 2005, a show in which she and a team of helpers make wishes come true for small-town residents. In 2007, her regular studio albums would re-released as remastered. A greatest hits album would also be released as asingle-disc CD edition, and a 2-Disc CD/DVD Special Edition, which featured music videos and interviews.

Her last studio album, Somewhere Down the Road, was released in 2010, which featured "Better Than a Hallelujah".

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called "30 Songs / 30 Days" to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book.