Ginny Owens is a Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter. Contemporary Christian Music (or CCM; also by its religious neutral term " inspirational music " is a genre of Popular music which is She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and has been totally blind since the age of two. When she graduated from Belmont University with a degree in Music Education, she found that most people were skeptical about hiring a blind music teacher. Belmont University is a private, Coeducational Liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States Instead she concentrated in singing and songwriting and began making CDs, and has been producing them since 1999 with Rocketown Records, a label under Michael W. Smith. Michael W Smith (born October 7, 1957) is a Grammy Award -winning American Singer and Songwriter. Her music has been featured on television shows, such as Roswell and Felicity. Roswell is an American Science fiction Television series created by Jason Katims. Felicity is a Golden Globe -winning American Primetime television Drama produced by Touchstone Television Ginny has also received three Dove awards, including New Artist of the Year (2000). In January 2005, Ginny Owens started a non-profit organization called the Fingerprint Initiative. The organization has worked in conjunction with other groups, such as Compassion International, The International Justice Mission, and Habitat for Humanity. For the Taiwan-based nonprofit called Compassion International see Compassion International (Taiwan. Habitat For Humanity International ( HFHI) (generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat) is an international Ecumenical Ginny Owens has been featured on CNN to talk about the organization and their efforts to help rebuild New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States