Barack Obama Claims He 'Wasn't Worried' About Al Green Performance
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Friday, 27 April 2012 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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US president Barack Obama, a.k.a the coolest president of all-time, has told Rolling Stone that he wasn't nervous at all when he performed with Al Green earlier this year – because he 'can sing!'
Obama burst into song at a charity event in New York last January, giving an impromptu performance of Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together' – something which the watching crowd, which included Al Green himself, went wild for. But, as a political leader, singing in front of thousands of people isn't something you're really trained to do – but Obama insists that he wasn't nervous one bit!
He told the site: “I can sing - I wasn't worried about being able to hit those notes. It was my fifth event of the day… I wanted to hear Al Green. The guys who were working the soundboard in the back, a couple of real good guys, they say, 'Oh, man, you missed the Reverend, but he was terrific, he was in rare form. So I was frustrated by that.
“Since I was on my fifth event and have been yakking away for several hours on all kinds of policy stuff, I just kind of broke into a rendition of 'Let's Stay Together.' And they're like, 'Oh, so the president, you can sing, man. You should do that onstage.”
You can check the video of him singing below.
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