Gloria Mills Chapman: Facts About Amy Grant's daughter

Gloria Mills Chapman is the daughter of Amy Grant. Gloria Mills Chapman’s mother is a renounced Christian singer and songwriter. With more than 30 million albums sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards won, 22 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and being the first Christian album to go platinum, her mother is been referred to as “The Queen of Christian Pop”. Keep reading to get to know more about the daughter of the Queen of Christian Pop.

Gloria Mills Chapman: Bio Summary

How old is Amy Grant’s daughter Gloria Millie?

Gloria Mills Chapman was born in 1989 in the United States of America. Gloria who is often referred to as “Millie” by her family is the daughter of  Amy Grant and her ex-husband Gary Chapman. As of 2023, she is 34 years old. Gloria Chapman is the second child of the former couple. Her brother Matthew Garrison Chapman is the eldest while she is followed closely by Sarah Cannon Chapman and then her stepsister Corrina Grant Gill. According to Wideopencountry, the daughter of Amy Grant lives in New York City where she works in publishing.

Gloria Chapman’s father is also a singer

Millie’s father Gary Chapman also dominated the Christian song scene in the 1980s. He is a contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter and former television talk show host. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album in 1994. The same Album also produced a Dove Award nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year, and yielded a contemporary Christian music chart No. 1 song, “Sweet Glow of Mercy.”

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She inspired her mother’s 1991 hit song

Gloria Mills Chapman and her mother are very close. Millie inspired her mother’s hit song “Baby, Baby” which was released in 1991. The song has gained over 14 million views on youtube alone. Millie was named after her maternal grandmother, Gloria Grant.

Gloria was still in her mother’s belly when Amy began drafting the song’s lyrics. By the time the record came out, Gloria was already one and learning to walk. Although Gloria did not write “Baby, Baby,” she played a significant role in the song’s creation, being the inspiration behind it.

Gloria Mills Chapman is married to Ben Long

Any Grant’s daughter Millie is married to Ben Long.  Millie is married to her husband who she wed in May 2019. Millie shared her wedding photos with her 3k-plus followers. Millie is also a mother. Her doting mother who doesn’t miss a chance to post her middle-child daughter shared the news on her Instagram. She made a post where she announced the birth of her grandchild, Penelope Willow. “Baby Baby!! My daughter Millie welcomed a daughter, Penelope Willow,” she captioned the Jan. 6, 2022, snapshot to her 188k followers.

Her parents split when she was 10

Gloria Mills Chapman was just 10 when her parents ended their 17 years of marriage. Her mother filed for divorce in March 1999 citing “irreconcilable differences”, and the divorce was finalized in June 1999. Both parents moved on and got married again. Her father Gary Chapman is now on his third marriage. He is now married to Cassie Piersol Chapman, and they adopted an infant girl, Eva, in March 2014.

Gloria Mills Chapman’s mother Grant is now married to country singer-songwriter Vince Gill. Grant and Gill have one daughter together, Corrina Grant Gill, born March 12, 2001. “When we first met, I think the first year we worked together, I remember telling Vince if I were a guy, we would have been best friends,” the Christian singer told CNN’s Larry King in 2003 about her new husband.

Amy Grant’s daughter donated a kidney to her best friend.

According to Wideopencountry, Gloria Mills Chapman donated her kidney to her best friend. In 2014, Millie Chapman got a text from her best friend Kathryn Dudley at a Yankees game saying she needed a kidney. The daughter of the singer had known since they were children that her friend Dudley had kidney disease Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. The young lady without missing a beat texted back offering hers.

After the procedure, Grant told the Tennessean – ” In the wake of a loving gift, we all came together to do our hospital vigil and it was a lot of waiting, but so much joy, It’s been unbelievable, sitting around talking, looking at old family pictures.” Dudley had minimal function in her two kidneys before they implanted Millie’s kidney giving her a third, the Tennessean reported.

Gloria Mills Chapman’s father, Gary proudly shared his daughter’s decision to donate a kidney to her best friend. He wrote: “They’ve known each other their entire lives, and when Kathryn was in need, [it] turns out Millie was a perfect match. I’m so proud of her, words fail me.” Gary also updated her daughter’s health post-surgery, revealing that everything went well and that she is recovering.

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