“Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.”

American singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist

Mary Danielle Lambert is an American singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist. She is best known for her work with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, especially as the featured artist on their LGBTQ rights single “Same Love.” Her contribution to “Same Love” drew on her experience as a lesbian raised in a turbulent Christian home. She later developed that material into “She Keeps Me Warm,” which she released in 2013, and the song was followed by a music video later that August.