Elvis Presley’s album, “How Great Thou Art”
is certified gold. It went 2X Platinum in March 1992, and 3X Platinum in October
2010. It won a Grammy for “Best Sacred
Performance” category. In his lifetime, Elvis only won three Grammy awards and
all three of them were for his gospel albums. The church shown on the album cover is the First Church of Christ in Sandwich, Massachusets.
“As described in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide,
Elvis was 'arguably the greatest white gospel singer of his time [and] really
the last rock & roll artist to make gospel as vital a component of his
musical personality as his secular songs'.” (quote source:
biography.elvis.com.au)
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