By Penny Bancroft
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She began her music career in contemporary Christian music (CCM) before crossing over to pop music in the mid-1980s. Grant has 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 such 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 album Heart in Motion, which became her best-selling album, 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 had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, 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.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Franz Gruber (composer) –
- Andrew Carnegie (industrialist) –
- Georg Kaiser (dramatist) –
- Virgil Thomson (composer) –
- Helen Gahagan Douglas (politician) –
- Joe DiMaggio (baseball player) –
- John Larroquette (actor) –
- Amy Grant (singer) –
- John F. Kennedy, Jr. (son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) –
- Christina Applegate (actress) –
- Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (fraternal twin daughters of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush) –
Died
- Upton Sinclair (writer) –
- Flip Wilson (actor & comedian) –
- Rance Howard (actor) –
Events
- First sword-swallower performance in the U.S.–
- First YMCA in North America opened, in Montreal, Quebec–
- Last log entry for Mary Celeste before crew disappeared –
- Greenback Party (originally, National Independent Party) organized–
- American College of Surgeons incorporated–
- Albert Einstein formulated his general theory of relativity–
- The first door to King Tut’s tomb was opened–
- President John F. Kennedy was buried at 3:34 pm EST in Arlington National Cemetery–
- Robert S. Ledley granted a patent for CAT scan–
- Rene Levesque became premier of Quebec–
- U.S. chess champion John Donaldson wed Soviet champion Elena Akhmilovskaya–
- Ireland voted to legalize divorce–
Weather
- A tornado ripped through Portland, Arkansas–
- Steubenville, Ohio, received 36.3 inches of snow–
- West Virginia received 57 inches of snow–
- A blizzard hit the Appalachian states and nearby areas. Hartford, Connecticut, recorded gusts of 100 miles (160km) per hour.–
- Winds atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire were recorded at 160 miles per hour–
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