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Coldplay samples Obama singing 'Amazing Grace'
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Coldplay samples Obama singing 'Amazing Grace'

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President Barack Obama singing "Amazing Grace"<http://www.politico.com/video/2015/06/obama-sings-amazing-grace-000191> for a song on its new album, The Sun reports<http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/6758030/Barack-Obama-to-feature-on-new-Coldplay-album.html>.


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

Obama led a crowd singing the hymn during the funeral for Clementa C. Pinckney, one of the nine victims of the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina in June. The president wove in references to "Amazing Grace" throughout his eulogy, which was actually held at city's TD Arena — not the church where the mass shooting took place.

"If we can find that grace, anything is possible," Obama said. "If we can tap that grace, everything can change."

Martin, who performed an acoustic rendition<http://www.eonline.com/news/663900/chris-martin-performs-at-beau-biden-s-funeral-after-president-barack-obama-delivers-emotional-eulogy> of "'Til Kingdom Come" at Beau Biden's memorial service, has previously said that Obama is a Coldplay fan.

The album, "A Head Full of Dreams," comes out in December.

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