
By Michaela Gordoni
Christian artist Jamie Grace finally made her comeback as a musician when she learned to worship again.
“Playing concerts has been my full-time job since I was 19 years old. And I’m 33. And, you know, married with a baby and then the pandemic hits and all of my shows get canceled,” she told Movieguide® this week.
Her family struggled financially, and she felt unsatisfied. She went down many different avenues to work again and spent a lot of time thinking about what to do.
“I never specifically was like, ‘Oh, God forgot about me.’ But it’s difficult because, you know, dealing with like job loss and identity and all these things,” the two-time Grammy nominee said. “It’s just really difficult.”
She is very candid about her mental health and struggles with general anxiety disorder. Jamie Grace shares encouragement with her fans and reminds them that they are not alone in their trials.
“While healing and miracles are a LEGIT thing, God is also with us even if things are not easy, if they are not perfect and if they are not redeemed on this side of Heaven,” she said last month. “If you deal with a mental health disorder/diagnosis like i do, you are not alone. We may have to put in a different kind of work with our relationships (including our relationship with God!), but it doesn’t make them less valid.”
Like her Dreamers record, some of Jamie Grace’s hit songs came out of her most stressful periods. She wrote both “Hold Me” and “Ready to Fly” when she was very sad and alone.
“So many things just kept like not working out,” she explained of the dip in her career. “But to the point to the point of where I realized, oh, God’s got me.”
It was only after she got to a low point and decided to give herself and her situation to God that she simply just worshiped, and things worked out.
“I just somehow chose to worship. And I somehow chose to just take every instrument that I had and put it in one of the really messed up fixer upper rooms in our house. And I just worshipped every day and just through art, through creating, through learning better patterns on the banjo, writing different lyrics and all that kind of stuff,” she told Movieguide®.
Then she made her record, Dreamers, without a label to back her. She’s also been leading a youth choir and teaching others her skills.
The artist is excited to go on tour again in the U.S. starting Aug. 7.
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