In tribute to both American Heart Month and her own musical history, Grant performed “Every Heartbeat,” a 1990 hit that reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. The song is included on the track list of her seminal ’91 Heart in Motion album, which also produced her massive hit, “Baby, Baby.”
On March 5, Grant will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of Heart in Motion, and she says that her landmark album holds an even greater meaning for her in the wake of her diagnosis and subsequent surgery. “I feel like I’ve been given a second chance,” she reflects. “It feels like this crazy kaleidoscope that started 30 years ago that’s just brought into focus the gift of gratitude, joy for the gift of each other, joy for music.”
Grant’s condition, PAPVR, stands for partial anomalous pulmonary venous return. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PAPVR is a birth defect of the heart in which some of the veins bringing blood back from the lungs don’t connect to the left atrium as usual. Instead, some of them go to the heart by way of an abnormal (anomalous) connection.