Amy Grant, who presented at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2021 in Nashville, brings her tour to Napa and Redwood City Feb. 20-21(Mark Humphrey/Associated Press archives).
Amy Grant has had nothing short of a blockbuster career.
The acclaimed singer-songwriter-musician — who is often referred to as “The Queen of Christian Pop” — has sold more than 30 million albums since getting her start in the music business in the mid-1970s.
She’s also won a half-dozen Grammys, merited both a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Kennedy Center Honors recognition, and taken home enough Gospel Music Association Dove Awards to fill multiple shelves.
She was one of the first Christian contemporary music (CCM) artists to really crossover on the charts and gain widespread mainstream pop recognition. Notably, the lovely 1986 duet that she did with Peter Cetera — “The Next Time I Fall” — earned Grant her first No. 1 on the pop charts.
Five years later, she’d release the juggernaut “Heart in Motion,” which spent 32 weeks atop the Christian album charts, sold 5 million copies in the U.S. alone and delivered Grant’s second No. 1 pop single, “Baby Baby.” The album also produced three other top 10 pop hits — “Every Heartbeat,” “Good for Me” and “That’s What Love Is For.”
Since that landmark commercial triumph, Grant has gone on to release such acclaimed and successful albums as 1994’s “House of Love,” 1997’s “Behind the Eyes,” 2002’s “Legacy… Hymns and Faith” and 2013’s “How Mercy Looks from Here.”
Grant is heading out on the road and has two big shows scheduled in the greater Bay Area. First up, she performs Feb. 20 at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, uptowntheatrenapa.com. Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets start at $60. She also has a show on Feb. 21 at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. and tickets start at $65, foxrwc.com.
Originally published at Jim Harrington