Amy Grant’s wonderful music is essential to the Christmas season. With three Christmas albums under her belt, the award-winning vocalist has become associated with the occasion. Her yearly Christmas tours are one of the season’s most popular events, especially when she performs alongside her renowned husband, Vince Gill.

When they first entered the studio in 1993 to sing “House of Love,” the married couple thought they had something special.

“I think that a part of me loved him instantly,” Grant admits. “I felt like I knew him immediately. I was so impressed by him as a person that I stepped up behind him and held him as tightly as I could while he sang. I simply replied, “I just needed to embrace you all night.”

The emotion was reciprocal, and Gill penned his song “Whenever You Come Around” for Grant.

“The first smile I saw on the face of a woman I’d never met inspired this song. That was Amy Grant in 1993. I was so inspired and affected by the sight of that grin that I went home and created this song,” Gill explained.

For seven years after meeting, the pair fought their love for one another while being true to their husbands. However, both eventually divorced, and Vince Gill married Amy Grant in 2000.

During a 1993 Christmas with Vince Gill event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the few video recordings of the two together before their marriage, Vince joins Amy to perform her enormously successful Christmas single “Tennessee Christmas.”