Francesca Battistelli
Francesca Battistelli is an American Christian musician, singersongwriter, and recording artist from New York City, New York. She was originally an independent artist and had released an independent album, Just a Breath, in 2004. Her first studio album on Fervent Records, My Paper Heart, was released on July 22, 2008. Her first single, Im Letting Go, was released to radio stations in spring of 2008 and has charted on national Christian CHR charts since then. The song was the 16th most played song of 2008 on Christian radio stations according to RampR magazine. Battistelli received her first Grammy Award nomination in 2009, for Best Gospel Performance with her single, Free to Be Me. She later went on to win her first Grammy Award in 2016 at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Christian Music PerformanceSong with her single, Holy Spirit from her album If Were Honest.
Battistelli was born on May 18, 1985 in New York City. She grew up in a musical family with both of her parents involved in musical theatre. There was just something about live theaterespecially musical theaterthat has always resonated with me she said. She knew that she was going to spend her life performing after seeing a performance of the musical The Secret Garden on Broadway at the age of six. So I thought that was it. I was going to be Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden.
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