The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; Keyboard shortcuts for audio player; ...

"Amazing Grace" – Traditional ... The ukulele-accompanied version gives the song a warm, gentle tone, symbolizing a transition to a peaceful place.

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. There is no shortage of versions of Amazing ...

Amazing Grace. By James Walvin. University of California Press; 216 pages; $19.95 and £16.99. I n 2015 Barack Obama gave the eulogy at a funeral service in Charleston, South Carolina, for a black ...

When President Obama broke out in a not-quite-perfect rendition of “Amazing Grace” at the funeral of the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, he brought the room to its ...

America's Got Talent crowned the new champion, ukulele-playing Grace VanderWaal on Wednesday night and she only started playing it a year ago. The 12-year-old starlet, whose first audition has ...

Grace VanderWaal Trades Her Ukulele for Guitar in New ‘Stray’ Video. Somber reflection on growing up is 15-year-old's first new song since last March. ... Outside of music, ...

"Amazing Grace" is on its way to becoming one of Tennessee's state songs. On Tuesday, the Tennessee Senate voted unanimously to pass a bill making the 1779 hymn the 11th state song.

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. Amazing Grace was the perfect choice. It is ...