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PROVO — A Brigham Young University vocal group's cover of "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" has gained a lot of popularity across the Internet.
Since the Noteworthy cover was released Oct. 13, it has reached more than 1 million views on YouTube and has been featured as one of the top 10 of iTunes Christian and Gospel Songs, according to BYU Performing Arts Management.
The video features the women in the group wearing white dresses in the woods as they sing Chris Tomlins' original rendition with a new verse written by Keith Evans, Noteworthy's director.
BYU Performing Arts Management said video viewers of faiths outside the LDS Church and nonreligious viewers commented that the video was "angelic," "beautiful," and "inspiring."
"Now I'm not religious but this right here makes me wanna go to church," Commenter Ken Bradley wrote on YouTube. "Well done would love to hear y'all sing Hallelujah."
Noteworthy performs religious music along with pop, country, jazz, R&B, spiritual, and Broadway. The group will perform in Salt Lake City Feb. 5, 2016, at the Conference Center Theater during BYU's Winterfest and on April 9, 2016, at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo.