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Ye of great faith: Kanye West brings gospel and pop-art dazzle to Coachella

INDIO, Calif. - Kanye West's Sunday Service was not a traditional Kanye West concert. It was a spiritual, had-to-be-there experience fashioned like a new-age Baptist church revival.

West was not here to play his hits, or deliver anything that would have offered clear insight into the mind of one of the most polarizing figures of the last quarter-century.

Instead, what he staged outside of Coachella during the early morning of the festival's final Sunday was a nearly two-hour celebration of the gospel and soul music that's shaped the framework of his

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