Amy Grant Details Close Relationship With Late Dad In Song “Father’s Eyes”
Amy Grant sings about her relationship with her father. (Photo Credit: Derek White/Getty Images, Amy Grant / Instagram)
Amy Grant Lost Her Father in 2018
On July 1, 2018, Amy Grant revealed that her father, Dr. Burton Grant, passed away. The contemporary Christian singer posted a sweet photo of her kissing her dad’s cheek on Instagram and wrote the following statement:
“Walking our dad home has been a ten year journey, taking our family places we never imagined. We are all closer because of it. I’m so grateful for my dad. My grandfather passed away when my dad was a teenager. When my dad decided to become a doctor it was his mother, my grandmother, who paid his way through school. Years after my grandmother passed, I found his graduation program in a box of her things with a note from my dad. It said, ‘Mother, I hope I will serve mankind in such a way as to justify your faith in me. Love, Burton.’ Well done, Dad.”
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Family is incredibly important to Grant. She has three children (Sarah, Matthew, and Millie) with her ex-husband Gary Chapman, a daughter (Corrina) with her husband, country legend Vince Gill. She is also a stepmom to Gill’s daughter, Jenny, and grandmother to Jenny and Millie’s children.
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The youngest of four girls, Grant was also very close with her father.
When it came time to name her second album in 1979, it made a lot of sense to call it My Father’s Eyes, after the song “Father’s Eyes,” which was written by Gary Chapman. She was just 19 years old when she released this album!
Several years ago, Grant performed the moving song at Brentwood Hills Church of Christ.
“This song really kinda has a double meaning,” she said introducing the song. “It’s about a father. And I think about my Heavenly Father, and I also think about my brown-eyed dad, Burton Grant.”
While she does have brown eyes, just like her father, that’s not exactly what the song is about.
“She has her father’s eyes,” she sang. “Eyes that find the good in things/when good is not around/Eyes that will find the source of help/when help just can’t be found.”
Watch her incredible performance in the video below.
