LOS ANGELES (Word Entertainment) - Best-selling, multiple GRAMMY and Dove Award-winning singer/songwriter
Amy Grant recently received her sixth career GRAMMY Award for her newest project, Rock of Ages...Hymns & Faith. Additionally, Grant contributed material for two other GRAMMY Award-winning projects, Songs From The Neighborhood - The
Music Of Mister Rogers, and Marlo
Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long. The winners of the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced on February 8th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif.
Rock of Ages, Grant's twentieth album, won the GRAMMY Award for '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 last year, 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 comes on the heels of Grant's success as the star of 'Three Wishes.' The hour-long, unscripted series featured Grant as she led a team of experts to "grant" wishes to help make the hopes and unbelievable dreams of deserving people come true. Viewers followed the deeply personal and heartwarming stories as Grant and her team transformed these hopes into a life-changing reality. The show was lauded as one of 2005's best television series and has received and overwhelming response from the public and the media. The show was recently nominated for a 'Movie Guide' family programming award.
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 six 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.
