#AMY GRANTS HEART IN MOTION TV#

King said: “I’ve tried to quit, but then I get the call.” “I said, ‘Thank you for not quitting.’ As an aging artist myself, I was saying, ‘you are showing me the way.’”

Her stories and insights evoke moments of divinity through the ordinary - say, while doing laundry or looking for car keys. You wake up and take a deep breath and say: ‘We are all in the big lazy river of God.” This is the first moment in a 45 minute interview that Grant, who has been called “The Queen of Christian Pop,” invokes the G-word. You can’t hold onto a moment you can’t hold onto your children, because they grow up. Life is a continuum, the good and the bad. “I am going to sound like a hippy dippy grandmother,” Grant says, her voice measured, “but you can’t grasp to anything. Now, Grant and Gill, both musical powerhouses - Grant rightly calls her husband “freakishly gifted in music” - approach 60 (she’s 58 he’s 62) with a preternatural peace that can only come with time.

#AMY GRANTS HEART IN MOTION TV#

Her marriage of 20 years to Vince Gill has been the topic of countless articles and celebrity TV shows their blended family has not only survived the scrutiny, but thrived. Grant’s career - and personal life - skyrocketed into the public spotlight. On her “Heart in Motion” album, Grant’s voice ranged from bright and girlish to having the velvety depth that continues to characterize it, moving her from her previous reputation as a Christian pop songstress into bona fide pop superstar territory.

To children of the ’80s and ’90s, the name “Amy Grant” evokes an immediate reaction, potentially even a few lines of the Grammy-nominated, quintuple-platinum song “Baby, Baby.” Images of a fresh-faced, curly-haired 30ish Amy Grant in cowboy boots and a white T-shirt, from the early MTV and VH1 days, come to mind.

Amy grants heart in motion