The next Coldplay album samples President Obama

Coldplay's upcoming album will have the strange distinction of being President Obama's debut in the music world. The band revealed Monday that its latest album, A Head Full of Dreams, samples Obama singing at Rev. Clementa Pinckney's funeral in Charleston, South Carolina, this summer. Pickney, a South Carolina state senator, was one of the nine black people killed in a racially motivated shooting at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June.
"We have a tiny clip of the president singing 'Amazing Grace' at that church," Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said. "Because of the historical significance of what he did and also because that song being about, 'I'm lost but now I'm found.'"
Both the White House and Emanuel AME Church gave the band permission to use the clip on their album, out Dec. 4. Watch the original footage of Obama singing below. Becca Stanek
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