This Easter Sunday, 6x GRAMMY-winner Amy Grant
will do something she’s never done before – perform on national TV from
her living room. Grant will appear on FOX & Friends during the 8am
EST hour to sing “How Great Thou Art.”
Also on Easter, Grant is partnering with Gratitunes to give thanks to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) staff in Nashville by releasing “Carry You,”
a special video song message. On National Doctors’ Day, March 30,
Music Row and Nashville’s creative community came together to support
VUMC staff through the launch of “Gratitunes,” a consumer-generated
music platform to celebrate and thank members of the VUMC family,
through the power of music, for their dedication, empathy and unwavering
commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brad Paisley kicked-off the
program and through the month of April, a new artist each day is sending
a ‘Gratitune’ on their personal Instagram page.
Individuals
can visit www.gratitunes.com to add their own ‘Gratitune’ to a playlist,
which will be made available to all COVID-19 VUMC Assessment Sites and
the Hospital to help lessen stress and anxiety, and lift spirits. Once a
Gratitune is shared, individuals will receive a unique graphic with
their dedicated tune that can be shared across all social media
platforms, using hashtags #Gratitunes and #VUMCHeroes, encouraging
others to do the same.
Grant
recently helped the Grand Ole Opry continue its nearly 100-year history
of consecutive Saturday Night broadcasts, playing its 4,917th Saturday
night show to an empty Opry House, joining her husband and Opry member
Vince Gill, alongside daughters Jenny Gill and Corrina Grant Gill. Grant
also took a private moment and posted a performance dedicated to
doctors, nurses, and all on the front lines helping serve COVID-10
patients on her FaceBook page late last week.
About Amy Grant:
Amy
Grant’s career spans more than 40 years and stretches from her roots in
gospel into becoming an iconic pop star, songwriter, television
personality and philanthropist. With three multi-platinum albums, six
platinum albums and four gold albums, her total career album sales have
exceeded 30 million and over 1 billion global streams. Grant’s chart
success has been consistent throughout her career with six No. 1 hits,
10 Top 40 pop singles, 17 Top 40 Adult Contemporary tracks and multiple
Contemporary Christian chart-toppers. In addition to her six GRAMMY®
Awards, Grant has earned 26 Dove Awards (including four Artist of the
Year Awards) and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
as well as the Music City Walk of Fame. Conventional wisdom has it that
Grant put Contemporary Christian Music on the map becoming the first
Contemporary Christian artist to have a platinum record, the first to
hit No. 1 on the Pop charts and the first to perform at the GRAMMY®
Awards. With that, her legacy as one of the most influential artists of
the past four decades is assured. In April of 2016, Grant celebrated the
25th anniversary of her iconic hit “Baby Baby” with a worldwide release
of the song featuring pop sensation Tori Kelly. Tennessee Christmas released
in late 2016, marked Grant’s first all-new holiday album in nearly 20
years. This past February, The T.J. Martell Foundation – the music
industry’s leading nonprofit to fund innovative medical research focused
on treatments and cures for cancer – honored Grant with the Tony
Martell Outstanding Entertainment Achievement Award at their 2020 Honors
Gala.