Jamie Grace

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Jamie Grace Harper is as American contemporary Christian musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress

Nov 25, 1991

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: November 25, 1991
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Songwriters, Musicians, Lyricists & Songwriters, Singers, Rappers
  • City/State: California, Los Angeles
  • Boy Friends: Aaron Collins
  • Siblings: Morgan
  • Known as: Jamie Grace Harper

Jamie Grace born at

Los Angeles, California

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Birth Place

She got engaged to Aaron Collins and made announcement of such engagement on January 25, 2018.

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Personal Life

When not working on her music, Jamie co-hosts ‘On The Plate Again ‘, a food & lifestyle podcast with Morgan as also other podcasts namely ‘God Girl’s Club’ and ‘The Jamie Grace Show’.

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Personal Life

She was born on November 25, 1991, in Los Angeles, California, US to Bishop James Henry Harper and Mona Nanette Harper (née, Tellis) both of whom pastor Kingdom City Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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Childhood & Early Life

Her elder sister Morgan Harper Nichols is an American Christian musician, songwriter, gospel music recording artist and guitarist. Both the sisters were homeschooled while being raised in Atlanta, Georgia. They used to sing and play instruments in school and church as kids.

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Jamie completed her graduation earning a bachelor's degree in children's ministry from Point University.

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Childhood & Early Life

She was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at age eleven and also has obsessive–compulsive disorder. She founded ImAFighter.org in her teens to raise awareness and encourage and support children suffering from Tourette syndrome. She also founded the Jamie Grace Foundation and its extension LoveWill.net at a later stage.

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Childhood & Early Life

She created a YouTube account on August 3, 2007, where she started uploading videos of her songs. With time the videos started garnering attention from producers and record labels and eventually at age 17 she landed up with an acting and singing gig with international Christian-based broadcast TV network TBN’s iShine KNECT show and subsequently started touring with iShine LIVE with the Pop/Hip Hop CD she self-produced.

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Career

Christian hip hop recording artist, author, songwriter and music producer TobyMac discovered her in 2010 and later that year she went on to sign to record label Gotee Records founded by TobyMac.

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Career

TobyMac produced the first EP of Jamie titled ‘Hold Me’ released through his Gotee Records on February 22, 2011. Its title track featuring TobyMac became quite popular finding place in Christian Hit Radio stations thus garnering Jamie widespread recognition.

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Other tracks of ‘Hold Me’ include ‘Into Jesus’ (DC Talk cover), ‘One Song at a Time’ (featuring GabeReal of DiverseCity) and ‘Holding On’ (Lo-fi Version). The music style of Jamie is somewhat unique. She produces specific sound blending elements from pop, folk and hip hop music. Some of her tracks include elements of guest vocalists such as that of TobyMac in ‘Hold Me’ and of GabeReal in ‘One Song at a Time’.

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Jesus Freak Hideout declared on May 4, 2011 that Jamie’s first single ‘Hold Me’ garnered the top spot at CHR. In 2012, the single garnered her Grammy Awards nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song. She also earned three nominations at the 2012 Dove Awards finally winning the New Artist of the Year award.

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