Coldplay Album Features President Obama Singing "Amazing Grace"

Coldplay have revealed that new album A Head Full of Dreams features a sample of President Obama singing “Amazing Grace” at Reverend Clementa C. Pinckney’s funeral in Charleston, South Carolina this summer, The Sun reports. Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator, was one of the black men and women killed by a white gunman at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June.

“We have a tiny clip of the President singing Amazing Grace at that church,” Chris Martin told The Sun. “Because of the historical significance of what he did and also that song being about, ‘I’m lost but now I’m found.’”

Both White House and Emanuel A.M.E. Church gave permission for the recording’s use, according to a source quoted by the Sun.

A Head Full of Dreams comes out December 4 on Parlophone/Atlantic. In addition to previously announced collaborators Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo, and Merry Clayton, Martin recently revealed to The Wall Street Journal that the album also features appearances by Beyoncé and Jay Z’s daughter Blue Ivy, Martin’s ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow, their two kids, Apple and Moses, and his current partner, actress Annabelle Wallis.

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