Since her diagnosis, Grant has become a spokesperson for the American Heart Association (AHA) and an advocate for women’s heart health, encouraging everyone to get their heart checked. Woman’s World sat down with Amy Grant to discuss her health journey, partnership with the AHA and how writing new music has been therapeutic for her. Woman’s World: You were diagnosed with a rare congenital heart defect in 2020, partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR), after going years without knowing about it. Amy Grant: Unbeknownst to me, I had a birth defect that had grown into a near-catastrophic situation. Two summers ago, I started writing songs again and I wound up working with a lot of musicians and it just created some new working relationships.