Natalie Grant

Natalie Grant 2008

Natalie Grant (born December 21, 1971 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American singer of Christian music.

Career

Natalie Grant began her singing career in the Alabama- based gospel band Truth . In the mid-1990s, she started a solo career in Nashville . Her debut album, named after her, was released on the label Benson Records in 1999. She then moved to Pamplin Music , where the album Stronger was released two years later . When the label ceased operations, it was taken over by Curb Records . But it was not until their fifth album Awaken that they achieved their first great success. In 2005 it came to number 3 on the Top Christian Albums and also in the official album chartsshe got in and stayed there for three months. She received a gold record for the album . Two songs on the album, Held and What Are You Waiting For , made it into the top 10 of the Christian songs charts. At the end of the year she also released the Christmas album Believe with five Christmas hit singles. She was then named Singer of the Year at the GMA Dove Awards.

With the albums Relentless and Love Revolution she was able to increase the success in 2008 and 2010 respectively. She also defended her title as singer of the year at the Dove Awards until 2009. In 2011 she recorded the song Alive for the compilation Music Inspired by the Story . She also received a Grammy nomination and her fifth Dove Award for the first time for the performance . Two years later, Grant reached number 1 on the Christian album charts and the top 20 on the US album charts for the first time with Hurricane . The album and theme song earned her three more Grammy nominations in 2014 and 2015, respectively . Two years later, her ninth studio album, Be One , was released, with which Grant again topped the Christian music charts. The song King of the World was her eighth top 10 hit among Christian Songs. The song and album earned her Grammy nominations number five and six.

In addition to music, Natalie Grant is also active against human trafficking. She is a co-founder of the Abolition International organization .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Christian
1999	Natalie Grant	-	-	First published: April 14, 1999
2001	Stronger	-	-	First published: June 12, 2001
2003	Deeper Life	-	Christian25 (1 week) Christian	First published: February 11, 2003
2005	Awaken	US141 gold (16 weeks)US	Christian3 (87 weeks) Christian	First published: March 22nd, 2005 Sales: + 500,000
2008	Relentless	US81 (16 weeks) US	Christian2 (74 weeks) Christian	First published: February 12, 2008
2010	Love Revolution	US32 (3 weeks) US	Christian2 (40 weeks) Christian	First published: August 24, 2010
2013	Hurricane	US17 (4 weeks) US	Christian1 (28 weeks) Christian	First published: October 15, 2013
2015	Be One	US28 (1 week) US	Christian1 (47 weeks) Christian	First published: November 13, 2015

Live albums

• 2004: Worship with Natalie Grant and Friends

Compilations

• 2008: Natalie Grant Collector's Edition

Christmas albums

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		Christian
2005	Believe	Christian29 (6 weeks) Christian	First published: October 25, 2005

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		Christian
2004	Live for Today Deeper Life	Christian13 (26 weeks) Christian
2005	Hero Awaken	Christian4 (36 weeks) Christian
2006	What Are You Waiting For Awaken	Christian7 (20 weeks) Christian
	The Real Me Awaken	Christian18 (20 weeks) Christian
	Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Believe	Christian15 (6 weeks) Christian
	What Christmas Means to Me Believe	Christian22 (3 weeks) Christian
	O Little Town of Bethlehem Believe	Christian25 (3 weeks) Christian
	I believe believe	Christian28 (2 weeks) Christian
	Joy to the World Believe	Christian33 (1 week) Christian
2007	In Better Hands Relentless	Christian5 (31 weeks) Christian
2008	I Will Not Be Moved Relentless	Christian4 (26 weeks) Christian
2009	Our Hope Endures Relentless	Christian14 (19 weeks) Christian
	Perfect People Relentless	Christian7 (20 weeks) Christian
2010	Greatness of Our God Love Revolution	Christian31 (15 weeks) Christian
	Human Love Revolution	Christian22 (17 weeks) Christian
2011	Your Great Name Love Revolution	Christian8th gold (30 weeks)Christian	Sales: + 500,000
	Alive	Christian19 (22 weeks) Christian
2013	Hurricane Hurricane	Christian8 (22 weeks) Christian
2014	Closer to Your Heart Hurricane	Christian25 (20 weeks) Christian
2015	Be One Be One	Christian14 (26 weeks) Christian
2016	King of the World Be One	Christian5 (33 weeks) Christian
2017	Clean Be One	Christian17 (26 weeks) Christian
2018	More Than Anything Be One	Christian13 (26 weeks) Christian
	The Prayer	Christian20 (5 weeks) Christian	with Danny Gokey
2020	My weapon	Christian25 (... weeks) Christian
	Praise You in This Storm	Christian31 (... weeks) Christian

More singles

• 2003: No Sign of It

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		Christian
2019	Isn't He (Jesus)	Christian27 (2 weeks) Christian	The Belonging Co feat. Natalie Grant
2019	Even Louder	Christian35 (6 weeks) Christian	Steven Malcolm feat. Natalie Grant

Awards

• GMA Dove Award : Female Vocalist of the Year 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012

swell

1. ↑ Natalie Grant in the gold / platinum database of the RIAA (USA)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: US
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Music Sales Awards: US
4. ↑ GMA Dove Award - Past Winners (database search)

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Abolition International (Hope for Justice, English)
• Natalie Grant at Allmusic (English)