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Natalie Grant (born December 21, 1971 in Seattle, Washington) is a singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music. She has received the Gospel Music Association's Dove Award for Female Vocalist of the Year four consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009), and again in 2012. Her signature song is Held.
Career
Grant toured with award winning, multi-platinum selling Billboard magazine's Artist of The Decade MercyMe in April 2011.
She recently toured on the Speaking Louder Than Before tour with Bebo Norman and Jeremy Camp. She also contributed the song "Breathe On Me" to Crystal Aikin's self-titled debut album.
Grant's eighth album, Love Revolution, was released on August 24, 2010.
She was a speaker and performer on the Revolve Tour, a conference for teen girls from Women of Faith.
Personal life
In an interview with The 700 Club, Natalie revealed that she suffered from bulimia. She says God helped her get over her eating disorder. She later wrote a book titled The Real Me: Being the Girl God Sees, about her struggle and how she overcame it.
Grant lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her Canadian producer husband, Bernie Herms, and their three daughters, which includes a set of fraternal twin girls Grace Ana and Isabella Noelle (born February 16, 2007). On December 17, 2010, Grant gave birth to their third child, Sadie Rose.
She has a passion to see an end to human trafficking. She was affected by an episode of Law & Order that dealt with the topic and began researching. Her studies led her and her husband to travel to India to witness the red-light districts and what is being done to stop them. That experience, coming in the middle of a restless, stressed-out season for her, completely changed the trajectory of Natalie's life, awakening her out of complacency and passivity and into a life driven by compassion and passion. And it has forever changed the way she approaches her music.
After realizing the need for quality aftercare for victims, in 2005 Natalie founded The Home Foundation. The Home Foundation has since evolved into Abolition International, an international leader in the fight to eradicate sex trafficking through aftercare accreditation, advocacy and education initiatives, and dedication to opening restoration homes for those already victimized by sex trafficking.
