Amy Lee Grant (born November 25,
1960) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author and media personality. She is known for performing contemporary Christian music (CCM)
and for a successful crossover to pop music in the 1980s and 1990s. She has
been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop". As
of 2009, she had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards and 22 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album to go Platinum. She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in
2006 for her contributions to the entertainment industry. She made her
debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as
"Father's Eyes", "El Shaddai", and "Angels". In the
mid-1980s, she began 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. 1
song in a duet with Peter Cetera, "The Next Time I Fall".
In 1991, she released the blockbuster album Heart in Motion which became her best-selling album
to date, topping the Billboard Christian album chart for 32
weeks, selling five million copies in the U.S., and producing her second
No. 1 pop single "Baby Baby". She
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) which
she co-wrote.