When you watch the
embedded video below, I hope you will enlarge it to appreciate the imagery
within. The back-story, according to Deseret
News, is that Grammy-nominated violinist Jenny Oaks Baker chose to
collaborate with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a rendition of “Amazing
Grace” following a speech by Rice at a BYU Management Society event in April
2012.
The duo recorded the
track in July 2013 and a year later, Baker flew to San Francisco to record the
video with Rice. Now, two years after the recording process began, the video has
been released just as Americans across the country gather in celebration of the
country and those who have sacrificed so much for freedom.
The song is currently
available as a single through iTunes. According to representatives at Shadow Mountain Records, all proceeds
from the sale of the single will go to the Wounded Warrior
Project.
I must confess I had
a lump in my throat watching the beauty and grace of these two women and the
truly wonderful gift they have given us on this Independence Day.
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