Amy Grant’s Husband: Everything to Know About Her 2 Spouses

Amy Grant’s Husband: Everything to Know About Her 2 Spouses


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“Baby, Baby” singer Amy Grant, 63, got her start as a Christian musician but gained a great deal of notoriety in the 1980s and 1990s after diving into pop music. Her first album debuted in 1977, while her most recent — a Christmas album called Tennessee Christmas — dropped in 2016. Fittingly, Amy is set to host the 2024 CMA Country Christmas special, alongside Trisha Yearwood on Tuesday, December 3. Amy is also set to perform along with other country stars like Cody JohnsonAshley McBryde, and more.

Aside from being a beloved singer and songwriter, Amy is a doting mother of four kids, whom she had through two marriages. Her husband, Vince Gill , and their children will surely be cheering her on as she takes the stage for the holiday special. Read on to learn all about her current husband and her marriage to her ex-husband, Gary Chapman.

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Amy and Gary, now 66, met when she was a freshman at Furman University. Gary, a singer and songwriter himself, was immediately intrigued by her and asked her out on several occasions. She declined. However, Amy began to see Gary in a different light once her management team added him as an opening act on her tour ahead of her sophomore year of college, according to the 2003 biography of her life by Bob Millard, Amy Grant: The Life of a Pop Star.

In an interview for the biography, Amy said that their affection for one another is a natural result of two young kids (Amy was 19 at the time and Gary was 22), spending a large amount of time together. “We could have been any two kids out doing what we both loved to do. The results would have been the same,” she theorized.

Amy, who has been referred to as “The Queen of Christian Pop”, later on, admitted that they “kind of fell in love”, but she felt it was nearly planned out. “I guess I didn’t realize he was courting,” she said. “I thought we were great friends, that’s all. He became a part of my family. They took him in because they thought he was just a companion to their little girl. It was pretty sneaky.”

Amy and Gary married in 1982, although Amy = said their union was rough from the start. “It had been rocky from the get-go. I’d been holding steady for 15 years in something that was not easy to hold steady,” she recalled to AARP in 2011.

Some of the stress in their relationship came directly from Amy’s success. There was talk that Gary was jealous of her success, and in a 1997 interview with Texas Monthly, he admitted to it. He frankly recalled performing in between Amy’s sets at her concerts  and seeing the crowd die down and ignore him while tending to their personal conversations. During a 1985 performance, he even stopped a song to ask the crowd if he was “boring” them. “I had a lot of reasons to be angry,” he confessed. “I don’t think any of them were valid, but they were to me at the time. I know that I felt overlooked.”

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