Despite all her success, Grant hasn’t released a full-length album of original material since 2013’s How Mercy Looks From Here. However, that will change this spring when she drops The Me That Remains, produced by longtime friend and frequent collaborator Mac McAnally. Recently, the 22-time GMA Dove Award winner sat down with Variety to discuss her first non-holiday album in 13 years.
On Friday (Feb. 20), Amy Grant dropped “The Me That Remains,” the title track to her forthcoming album dropping May 8. It’s not difficult to see how Grant’s latest song was shaped by the 2022 biking accident in Nashville that left her hospitalized.
The star revealed that the cosmetic procedure happened while doctors removed a cyst from her throat. I actually had to learn to sing again.”
Amy Grant is back on the road after a terrifying bike accident in July 2022 that left her with a brain injury, and the Christian pop star opened up to E! News about the recovery process and the surprising cosmetic benefit.
“I don’t know if I’ll get back on a bike,” the singer admitted. “There are so many great sports to enjoy and — I mean, who knows?”
She continued. “I had this bike wreck and unbeknownst to me, I actually had a cyst growing in my throat. Because of the trauma of that bike wreck, it went into hypergrowth. I had this five-hour surgery and they took it out. I actually had to learn to sing again.”
Grant added that before going into her throat to remove the cyst, they asked her if she’d like a facelift while they were in there. “I said, ‘Dear God, no, I actually have to be on stage in X number of weeks,’” she recalled. “It was a five-hour surgery […] and I didn’t ask for it, but I came out of surgery and my neck was a little tighter. I felt like an old, beat-up car that went in and got a paint job and had the dents knocked out. That’s a gift!”
