Amy Grant.Photo: Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty
Amy Grantis singing again and couldn’t be happier.
After a flurry of unexpected obstacles, the Grammy Award-winner, 62, is back and ready to take charge. Over a span of just three years, the singer has faced open heart surgery, a devastating bike accident, and in January, had acyst removed from her throat.
“[I was] working with a vocalist and she said, ‘What is happening in your throat? Lean your head back,’ " Grant revealed during an interview withToday’s Craig Melvin that aired on Wednesday. “And I said, ‘I know. It’s like I’ve got an Adam’s apple that keeps getting bigger.’ Unbeknownst to me, I’d had a thyroglossal duct cyst.”
According to the Cleveland Clinic, people are born withthyroglossal duct cystsand while they are usually benign, they can embed a person’s ability to eat or drink, or in Grant’s case, sing.
“I feel fantastic,” she said. “I mean, really from 2020 on, I feel like I had to… if I were a car, I’ve made a lotta trips to the shop. And I feel like I’m emerging. I went, ‘Oh man, I feel like a classic now.’ And actually sort of re-revved up in a really beautiful way.”
Amy Grant.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty
To help her deal with everything she’s faced recently, Grant said she’s leaned into her faith.
The cyst appeared six months after a bike accident that left the singer in the hospital.
Grant’s rep confirmed to PEOPLE that she washospitalized in stable conditionback in July after she hit a pothole while riding her bike in Nashville. She was treated for cuts and abrasions at the time and held for observation.
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Although she was released two days later, her doctor “ordered additional recovery time,” forcing her topostpone several tour dates. She has since returned to the stage and resumed performances.
Grant’s accident came after sheunderwent open-heart surgeryin February 2021 to correct a rare congenital heart condition that her doctor discovered during a checkup the year before.
source: people.com
