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Sara Groves
Sara Groves performing
Background information
Origin	Minneapolis, MN, USA
Years active	1998–present

Sara Groves (born in 1972) is an American singer/songwriter from Burnsville, Minnesota, near the Twin Cities.

Sara received her Bachelor of Science degree in History and English in 1994 from Evangel University, a private Christian university in Springfield, Missouri. Sara spent four years teaching high school in Rosemount, Minnesota before recording her first album, Past the Wishing, in 1998. Since then, she has released five more albums and appeared on several others (see below). Sara has been nominated for 3 Dove Awards including "New Artist of the Year" in 2002 and "Special Event Album of the Year 2003" by the Gospel Music Association. She was named one of the best Christian music artists of 2005 and the album, Add to the Beauty, was named "Album of the Year" for 2005 by CCM Magazine.

Career

In 2001, she appeared on World Entertainment's What a Mom album with the song "Generations," and also on World Entertainment's New Music From Our Heart To Yours album. The following year she performed with Randy Stonehill on the song "Take Me Back.", and appeared on the album Traveling Light: Songs From the 23rd Psalm and the album City on a Hill: It's Christmas Time with the song "Child of Love."

In 2003, she appeared on the City on a Hill: The Gathering album with the song "Come Be Who You Are", and the following year's sequel City on a Hill: The Collection album, with the song "Jesus Went to the Garden".

Groves was recognised by the Alumni Board from Evangel University in 2004, for her significant achievements in the years since graduation.

In September 2005, Sara, her husband Troy, her father-in-law, a neighbour, and a Minneapolis ER doctor delivered a tour bus and trailer load of baby supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina in Slidell, Louisiana.

In August 2006, Sara was chosen as the subject of a film titled "Sara Groves - Just Showed Up For My Own Life", the first installment of a new reality film series called Nomad: The Show With No Home produced by Fearless Films Inc. Bonus features included Sara's live set from the 2006 Jars of Clay Tour, Nomad vignettes for small groups and more.

In April 2007, Groves began to record her 5th album with INO Records (7th overall) and continued to tour with her husband, Troy, and their two sons, Kirby and Toby. She also announced that she is pregnant with her third child, due in early Summer.

Quote

The lyrics of her first well known song "The Word" speak about her experience of knowing God through the Bible:

I've done every devotional

Been every place emotional
Trying to hear a new word from God
And I think it's very odd,
that while I attempt to help myself
My Bible sits upon my shelf
With every promise

I could ever need

And the Word was

And the Word is

And the Word will be

Discography

Albums

• 1. Past the Wishing (1998) 1. Past the Wishing
  (1998)
  
• 2. Conversations (1999) 2. Conversations
  (1999)
  
• 3. All Right Here (2002) 3. All Right Here
  (2002)
  
• 4. The Other Side of Something (2004) 4. The Other Side of Something
  (2004)
  
• 5. Station Wagon: Songs for Parents (2005) 5. Station Wagon: Songs for Parents
  (2005)
• 6. Add to the Beauty (2005) 6. Add to the Beauty
  (2005)

Publications

• Essay in The Art of Being, 2004 original essays and stories from a diverse list of contributors (compiled and edited by Constance Rhodes)

External links

• Official site
• Her tour rider
• Her rider (non-tour dates)
• Her agency's web site
• Addtothebeauty.com website created with her sister, Juliet, to raise awareness of social injustice
• Yahoo! Music Artists Page
• The Sara Groves Yahoo Group
• ThoughtQuotient.com Interview with Sara Groves

• Living people
• 1972 births
• American singer-songwriters
• American female singers
• American musicians
• American composers
• Performers of Christian music
• Minnesota musicians
• People from Minnesota