Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

ecord Love One Another, a song with an ecumenical theme:“Christians from all denominations demonstrating theircommon love for Christ and each other.” e song talks abouttearing down the walls of denominational division. e broadrange of participants who joined Troccoli in recording “LoveOne Another” demonstrates the ecumenical agenda ofContemporary Christian Music. e song witnessedCatholics, Pentecostals, Baptists, etc., yoked together forChristian unity.Grant, AmyAmy Grant (b. 1960) is one of the most popular figures inContemporary Christian Music and was one of the first CCMartists to achieve crossover pop success in the secular field.Known as “the Queen of Christian Pop,” she has sold morethan 30 million records worldwide, won six Grammys, 25Dove awards, and been voted “Artist of the Year” severaltimes. As of 2009 she was still the best-selling contemporaryChristian music singer. “She has performed from the WhiteHouse to e Grand Ole Opry to Monday Night Football.”She has appeared on e Today Show, Good MorningAmerica, e Grammy Awards, Arsenio Hall, e TonightShow, and many other such forums. In 2003 she was inductedinto the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and in 2005 she washonored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Grant grew up in a wealthy Church of Christ family nearNashville and began writing and singing folk/pop music as ayoung teenager. She signed her first recording contract at age15. Amy was baptized in the baptismal regenerationistChurch of Christ in the seventh grade. When she le home,she joined the charismatic Belmont Assembly in Nashville.She attended the Southern Baptist-affiliated FurmanUniversity in Greenville, South Carolina.She was a ground breaker in dissolving the wall ofseparation between the flesh and Spirit, world and Christ, in140