Alexander Hamilton, who died Jan. 28 at age 77, was a conductor and arranger who was able to add “movie star” to his credits in the last years of his life. His work on Aretha Franklin‘s 1972 “Amazing ...

Until the discovery of the film of “Amazing Grace,” the genius of the work of Alexander Hamilton was not as well known as it is now. For those familiar, Hamilton’s co-starring role conducting the ...

Mary Hall remembers the first time she heard Aretha Franklin sing “Amazing Grace.” It was during a dress rehearsal inside of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los ...

Amazing Grace. By James Walvin. University of California Press; 216 pages; $19.95 and £16.99 A short but fascinating book by James Walvin, a professor at the University of York and an expert on ...

You know those songs that you just kind of know? You sing along without even thinking about the lyrics. Well, we're going to explore the history of one of these songs today. It's heard around the ...

Following Joe Biden's inaugural speech as president, country star Garth Brooks took to the stage for a rendition of the old hymn "Amazing Grace." "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a ...

The Aretha Franklin documentary 'Amazing Grace' on Sunday had its Los Angeles premiere at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, where the film was originally shot in 1972. By Kristin ...

“Amazing Grace” is coming home. Nearly half a century after Aretha Franklin appeared at a modest Baptist church in South Los Angeles, resulting in a gospel album that would become one of the ...