Amy Grant's catalogue will be available on iTunes this week for the first time in her award-winning 30 year career.
16 new catalogue titles are available for the first time, free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions, and available at bit rates up to CD quality.
Grant's three Christmas titles will be re-mastered also and released on 2 October: "A Christmas Album", "Home For Christmas", "A Christmas To Remember"
Catalogue titles that are available for ringtones, ringtunes, ringbacks are include: "Every Heartbeat", "Baby Baby" Chorus, "Baby Baby" Intro, "Lead Me On", "Takes A Little Time", "I Will Remember You", "Good For Me", "Everywhere I Go", "Simple Things", "Stay For A While", "Breath Of Heaven", and "Tennessee Christmas".
In addition, Grant's memoir will release this autumn, according to Flying Dolphin Press/Waterbrook.
Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far will be released on 16 October 2007 and will be published as a trade paperback the following year.
"We've come to know the much beloved Amy Grant through her remarkable career as a singer and a songwriter. Now she has put pen to paper to deliver a beautifully written and deeply moving memoir that we are very honoured to be publishing," says Suzanne Herz, publisher of the book.
The book will coincide with EMI Music Group's CD release of Amy Grant's Greatest Hits on 16 October 2007. EMI has digitally re-mastered Grant's entire music catalogue and will release the CDs on 14 August 2007.
"Amy's music has impacted millions of people worldwide and now her life will continue to do so through the printed word. Mosaic promises to be an intimate look back at seasons of this multi talented singer/actress/songwriter's life that I know will inspire and entertain those who read it," said Bill Hearn, President and CEO, EMI CMG.
Grant has won six Grammys in multiple categories, beginning with the platinum-selling Age to Age in 1982. She also has six #1 hits, including "Baby, Baby" and "Every Heartbeat".
Grant released her first live recording in 25 years with Time Again...Amy Grant Live in September 2006, and she is conducting a symphony tour through 2007, performing with local symphonies in Atlanta, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and more.
The hit song "Baby, Baby" is currently featured in a line of 200 Hallmark song cards that plays music from original recording artists when opened.
