By Shawn Smith
A bike accident in 2022 might have put a pause on legendary CCM artist Amy Grant’s career, but after a long recovery, she used the experience as an inspiration for her new album The Me That Remains.
“‘[T]he Me That Remains’ was the first song that I wrote for this project, so I was really writing the me that remains to myself to go ‘Well, girl, gonna lean in with something. Who’d you wake up looking at in the mirror today? Don’t be so hard on her, that is what you’ve got,’” Grant told FOX NEWS SUNDAY’s Shannon Bream. “It was really the whole thing was a therapeutic experience.”
In 2020, the “El Shaddai” singer had open-heart surgery after being diagnosed with a congenital heart disease. In 2022, she suffered a traumatic brain injury after a bike accident that left her with short-term memory loss that she since recovered from, saying that what ever memory issues she has now are “age appropriate.”
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“I’m about to be 64. So I’m just going, ‘I’m right on time,'” she told PEOPLE magazine at the time.
After the injury, the six-time Grammy winner worried if she would ever fully recover from the accident.
“I would just say, ‘What if I’m never all the way back?’ Because my processing was so slow. I could be in the room with people, but I didn’t have a comeback,” she recalled.
The Georgia native is making a comeback with her first album in over a decade — Not only overcoming a brain injury but learning to sing again following a surgery to remove a cyst from her throat.
The mother of four said that at this stage in life it’s about learning to love “the good, the hard, the beautiful, the tragic” and that her music these days is less about “momentum” and more about “connection,” while keeping her faith at the center.
“I don’t know how to see life not through a lens of faith,” she said. “Whether I’m talking specifically about the love of God or about my relationship with Jesus, it’s still what undergirds everything.”
Grant said that the accident has made her more intentional about balancing work and family life and has given her and the family a new appreciation.
“To realize something can happen that you never see coming, and it could be over…everything became more precious.” Grant said.
Grant’s new album is available to stream anywhere.
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