Amy Grant began in contemporary Christian music (CCM) before crossing over to pop music in the 1980s and 1990s. She has been referred to as ”The Queen of Christian Pop”.

She has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, 22 GMA Dove Awards, and her album was the first Christian album to go platinum. Grant was honored with a star on 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.

Amy Grant made her debut in her 20s gaining fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as ”Father’s Eyes”, ”El Shaddai”, and ”Angels”. 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 the mid-1980s.

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. It was 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” and produced another three top 10 on Billboard Hot 100; “That’s What Love Is For”, “Every Heartbeat” and “Good for Me”.

She has been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame by the Gospel Music Association.