LOS ANGELES (Recording Academy) - Best-selling, five-time GRAMMY and multiple Dove Award-winning singer and songwriter
Amy Grant has received a GRAMMY Award nomination for her newest project, Rock of Ages…Hymns and Faith. Additionally, Songs From The Neighborhood - The
Music Of Mister Rogers, featuring Grant's newly arranged version 'It's You I Like,' was also nominated for an award. The nominees for the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced recently at Gotham Hall in New York City.
Rock of Ages, Grant's twentieth album, is nominated in the category of 'Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album.' The project made its first week sales debut at No 1 on both the Christian and the Christian Overall SoundScan charts, and entered Billboard's Top 200 sales chart at No 42. Rock of Ages follows the Gold certification of Grant's first hymns project, Legacy…Hymns & Faith, and since its release on May 3, has received rave reviews including being picked as People Magazine's 'Critic's Choice' and given a 'four-out-of-four' star rating.
Produced by Vince Gill and Brown Bannister, Rock of Ages... Hymns & Faith contains twelve classic hymns and worship songs, including a 'Rock of Ages' duet with Gill, along with a newly recorded version 'El Shaddai,' which was named 'A Song of the Century' by the RIAA in 2001.
The GRAMMY Award nomination comes in the midst of Grant's success as the star of NBC's 'Three Wishes.' The hour-long, unscripted series features Grant as she leads a team of experts to "grant" wishes to help make the hopes and unbelievable dreams of deserving people come true. Viewers will follow the deeply personal and heartwarming stories as Grant and her team transform these hopes into a life-changing reality. The show has been lauded as one of this year's best television series and has received and overwhelming response from the public and the media.
Over the course of her career, Amy Grant has sold well over 25 million records worldwide, including one quintuple Platinum record, a triple Platinum record and a double Platinum record, as well as six Platinum and three Gold records. Five of her songs have hit No 1 at mainstream radio, in addition to multiple No 1 hits at Christian radio. Additionally, her work has been honored with five GRAMMY Awards, twenty-four Dove Awards and many other accolades, including being nominated into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2003. Grant has also been noted for her humanitarian contributions, receiving among other honors the Pax Christi Award from St. John's University in 1994.
The 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
