Background
Grant had been approached by publishers to pen a book since the early stages of her career. Though she published several books for children and families and a small holiday companion book to her 1992 song, "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)", it was not until 2007 that Grant announced that she would finally publish a proper memoir.
The book's publication was scheduled to coincide with Grant's 30th year in the music industry. 2007 also marked Grant's departure from her long-time Contemporary Christian Music record label, Word Records, and her new deal with EMI's Sparrow Records. EMI re-released 17 of Grant's albums as digitally remastered special editions in the same month as Mosaic, as well as a new Greatest Hits CD and DVD set, all of which were cross-promoted with Mosaic in major retailers and online. Additionally, an online collection of most of Grant's music, entitled "The Storytellers' Collection", and a digital ringtone store featuring various Amy Grant songs, were launched at the same time.
Prior to Mosaic, only unofficial biographies of Grant's life and career had been published. Bob Millard had authored the unofficial Amy Grant in 1986, later revised, updated, and reissued as Amy Grant: The Life of a Pop Star in 1994. Mosaic became the first major book to chronicle Grant's life and career since her headline-making divorce from husband Gary Chapman in 1999, marriage to Vince Gill in 2000, induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2002, return to pop music in 2003, and Grammy win in 2005.
Read more about this topic: Mosaic: Pieces Of My Life So Far
Famous quotes containing the word background:
“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I had many problems in my conduct of the office being contrasted with President Kennedy’s conduct in the office, with my manner of dealing with things and his manner, with my accent and his accent, with my background and his background. He was a great public hero, and anything I did that someone didn’t approve of, they would always feel that President Kennedy wouldn’t have done that.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)