Coldplay's New Album Samples Barack Obama's 'Amazing Grace'

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Ahead of the Dec. 4 release of Coldplay's new album A Head Full of Dreams, it appears there's one additional voice on the record, that of President Barack Obama.

According to The Sun, the record samples Obama's impromptu rendition of "Amazing Grace" over the summer at the memorial service for Charleston shooting victim Clementa C. Pinckney.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin described the cameo as a "tiny clip of the President singing ... Because of the historical significance of what he did and also [the] song being about, ‘I’m lost but now I’m found.'”

In addition to Obama, the likes of Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher and Tove Lo appear on the new Coldplay record.