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Amazing Grace is a live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Franklin in performance. The recording was originally released as a double album on June 1, 1972, by ...
Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for her social ...
Aretha Louise Franklin (/ əˈriːθə / ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. [2] Honored as the " Queen of Soul ", Rolling Stone magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time. [3][4] As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in ...
B. J. Thomas. Billy Joe Thomas[1] (August 7, 1942 – May 29, 2021) was an American singer widely known for his country, contemporary Christian, and pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Popular songs by Thomas include "Hooked on a Feeling" (1968), "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (1969), "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done ...
The discography of Judy Collins, an American singer and songwriter, consists of 36 studio albums, nine live albums, numerous compilation albums, four holiday albums, and 21 singles. She has two Platinum -certified albums, which includes a greatest hits collection, and four Gold -certified albums. Eleven of her singles have charted on the ...
John Newton, 1778 According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, "Amazing Grace" is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse. In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames. His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent, unaffiliated with the Anglican Church. She ...
Amazing Grace remains the biggest-selling live gospel album of all time, being certified 2× Platinum in the US. [4] [5] According to RIAA database, Franklin has sold 16.5 million albums and singles in the US (based on certifications). [6]
Website. christomlin.com. Christopher Dwayne Tomlin (born May 4, 1972) [ 1 ] is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, and worship leader from Grand Saline, Texas, who has sold over 7 million records. [ 2 ] He is a member of Passion Conferences and is signed to EMI 's sixstepsrecords.