Nearly four years after a bicycle accident left her with a traumatic brain injury, memory loss and a months-long absence from the stage, Amy Grant has climbed back into the saddle.
The six-time Grammy winner, 65, told People magazine on May 7 that she rode a bicycle for the first time since the 2022 crash during a March 2026 visit to Aspen, Colorado.
Flanked by two longtime friends — one riding ahead, the other behind — Grant pedaled for several hours through the Rocky Mountain town, marking what she called a leap of faith.
“My heart was pounding and it’d been almost four years and I did it. I had two old friends, one in front of me, one behind me, and we rode for a few hours,” she told People. “But just that very beginning, that was a leap.”
Amy Grant Shares New Details About Her Recovery From 2022 Bicycle Accident
GettyThe singer reveled that she had wanted to attempt a ride last summer but was advised to wait. She spent roughly six months working on her balance before getting back on two wheels.
The July 2022 accident upended one of contemporary Christian music’s most decorated careers. Grant was riding with a friend near the Harpeth Hills Golf Course in Nashville when she hit a pothole, was thrown from her bike and knocked unconscious for about 10 minutes. Though she was wearing a helmet, she sustained a concussion and a traumatic brain injury, and was hospitalized at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The fallout extended beyond her head. The trauma triggered the rapid growth of a previously undiagnosed thyroglossal duct cyst in her throat, requiring a five-hour surgery and forcing the singer to relearn how to use her voice. In the months that followed, she relied on a teleprompter to remember lyrics that had once been second nature, even on songs she had performed for decades.
Grant, who married country star Vince Gill in 2000, has credited her husband with steadying her through the darkest stretches of recovery.
Grant Just Released a Brand New Album on May 8
The singer rose to prominence in the late 1970s as a teenage Christian recording artist before crossing over into mainstream pop in the mid-1980s. Her 1991 album “Heart in Motion” produced the No. 1 single “Baby Baby” and helped redefine the commercial ceiling for faith-rooted artists.
Now, her return to her bike also coincides with a return to the studio. Grant just released “The Me That Remains” on May 8, her first album of new material in 13 years.
Grant also acknowledged that lingering effects of the brain injury, including issues with short-term memory and balance, have not fully gotten back to normal.
“I’ve been working on my balance and so I just have a series of exercises that I do multiple times a day. And it’s made a difference and so I felt like I was ready; I’d put in the hard work,” she told People.
Four years ago, Grant wasn’t sure she would sing again. She wasn’t sure she would ride again. Now, she has done both, and has inspired a whole lot of people throughout the process.
