Amy Grant speaks for 1st time about her open-heart surgery l GMA

going to turn to our gma exclusive with multi-platinum singer-songwriter amy grant speaking out for the first time since the heart surgery that saved her life the pop and christian music star told robin about her miraculous recovery take a look she's the six time grammy award-winning musician amy grant has cemented her legacy as the queen of christian pop with countless chart-topping hits since the 80s [Music] and now the singer opening up about her own heart health battle looking back now were there instances or moments that you thought maybe something wasn't quite right with you i've had an irregular heartbeat for the like the last probably 10 years and it exhibited every day it had bothered me a little bit and then i've had a harder time singing in the last five years everything kind of tightening up as i was trying to sing and i remember a couple of times telling vince i feel like i'm suffocating like it's the weirdest thing i'm breathing as deep as i can but in my mind none of that had to do with my heart that would all change after a visit to the cardiologist to support her husband country music star vince gill when the doctor turned the tables she turned to me and said how about you amy and i went well what about me and he said we should check you out and i said well i'm fine and he said well let's he put me through all kinds of tests and he said everything looks good and then he called me the next day and said not so fast so it was just a total surprise i had a birth defect and he said we need to do this surgery before you turn 60. doctors discovering amy was living with a genetic heart condition called p-a-p-v-r and it was that fateful checkup that she says saved her life were you told what could have possibly have happened if it hadn't been detected when it was they were doing an ultrasound on my heart and the doctor came in he said you know vince this is the kind of situation where amy would be fine fine fine and then one day it would be catastrophic and we don't know when that would be but it would be sooner rather than later amy undergoing successful open heart surgery in june calling in a miraculous recovery lifted by prayers and is finding humor even in the most unlikely situation i've never been big breasted and i almost feel like i have tattooed cleavage now and this is like awesome amy says she is feeling better and more energized than ever and is grateful for the gift of another day as my mama always just say make your mess your message and you are getting a message out what is that my message would be take a minute and take care of yourself you don't know that something's wrong unless you make sure it's right do you know how many women die of stroke and heart disease it's like more than all cancers combined if i have got something wrong anybody could have something wrong and the message is also we are a community even in times of isolation we still have an impact on each other and we can have an incredible impact for good baby baby you are certainly right about that are you going to record some new music are you going to get back out there i'm hoping that a struggle that i was having will be alleviated by this and yes i'll sing till the day i die yeah music that changes everything music takes any manual task and suddenly you've got a soundtrack and you're in the movie of your own life and the sun is shining i mean music changes everything we are so glad amy is doing well and thanks to robin for that well hey there gma fans robin roberts here thanks for checking out our youtube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right over here to get more of awesome videos and content from gma every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on gma

Channel: Good Morning America

Views: 298,997

Rating: 4.946527 out of 5

Keywords: Amy, Grant, heart, surgery, recovery, Baby, genetics, open, gma, abc, news, p_cmsid=2494279, p_vid=news-72345402, vince gill, amy grant now, amy grant condition, amy grant 2020, amy grant update, amy grant surgery, partial anomalous pulmonary venous, PAPVR, amy grant husband, christian singers, amy grant songs, amy grant interview, robin roberts, good morning america

Id: 7p2aTW2040I

Length: 4min 11sec (251 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2020