‘I feel like I’m emerging’

Amy Grant was down, however positively not out.

The six-time Grammy Award winner is making new music after she was concerned in a severe bike accident close to her Nashville house final summer time that left her unconscious for 10 minutes and brought on a traumatic mind harm and reminiscence loss.

“I wrote this lengthy ebook. It was a spiral pocket book. And I used to be simply writing to recollect, writing — ensuring I may bear in mind everyone’s identify in my household, which I couldn’t, at first,” she instructed TODAY’s Craig Melvin in an interview that aired March 1.

Grant, 62, says she even forgot a few of the lyrics to her songs.

“So the primary night time of the Christmas tour, which is the primary time again on tour, teleprompter, and I used to be on heels,” she mentioned. “I used to be, like, holding onto the piano. Earlier than the present I used to be like, ‘I’m so scared. I’m so scared.’ And I work with so many nice singers, and so they’re like, ‘We received you, we received you.’”

Grant, who’s married to fellow singer Vince Gill, has been instructed it could take as an extended as 18 months to totally get better from the cognitive points she has. The accident can also be one in every of many medical issues she’s needed to deal with in recent times. She underwent coronary heart surgical procedure in 2020 and had a cyst faraway from her throat in January.

“(I used to be) working with a vocalist and he or she mentioned, ‘What is going on in your throat? Lean your head again,’” she mentioned. “And I mentioned, ‘I do know. It’s like I’ve received an Adam’s apple that retains getting larger.’ Unbeknownst to me, I’d had a thyroglossal duct cyst.”

Grant, who is understood for smash hits like “Child Child” and “That’s What Love Is For,” says she has bounced again in spite of everything she has endured.

“I really feel implausible,” she mentioned. “I imply, actually from 2020 on, I really feel like I needed to, if I had been a automobile, I’ve made a lotta journeys to the store. And I really feel like I’m rising. I went, ‘Oh man, I really feel like a basic now.’ And really form of re-revved up in a extremely stunning manner.”

Grant has been training her singing and has leaned on her religion to assist her overcome all of the obstacles which have come her manner.

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“It’s helped me not be afraid. And simply to go, nonetheless this seems, I consider I’m held by love, identical to I consider that about you, and everyone I meet,” she mentioned.

Grant has resumed touring and returned to the studio to make her first new music in a decade. She says the bike accident has taught her a precious lesson.

“To me it’s simply been an incredible reminder that life is dynamic, individuals are dynamic,” she mentioned. “No one’s all good, no person’s all unhealthy. A circumstance isn’t all unhealthy or all good. Even within the worst, terrible, worst trauma, magnificence and goodness are nonetheless current.”

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