"America" was among the pieces sung at his funeral.
He missed the 50th anniversary in 1991 because his wife, the girl who sang at his funeral, was ill.
She also sang "Precious Lord" at his funeral in 1968.
She desperately wanted to sing Autumn at her mother's funeral but knew that, on the day, she would likely break down.
They had met when he sang at Duke Ellington's funeral in 1974.
He sang the same Requiem at Chopin's funeral in 1849.
Jesse's brother John sang it at Douglass's funeral in 1895.
Now sing-the song Mikal would want sung at his funeral.
Additionally, it was sung at her funeral on the 17th April 2013.