Video: President Obama: I'm an Al Green impersonator The President famously sung a few bars of Green's Let's Stay Together during a Democratic fundraiser at New York's Apollo Theatre in February 2012. Earlier yesterday, wife Michelle hosted a student workshop about Memphis music featuring Sam Moore, half of the duo Sam & Dave, and Mavis Staples, and the First Lady joked that Memphis's Stax Records represented "somebody my husband thinks he sounds like, Al Green," adding "let's just tell him he does, OK? Since he is the President, we like to boost him up a little bit. Reverend Al Green had been scheduled to perform at the White House last night but, unfortunately, the 66-year-old had to pull out because of a back injury. Al Green - I Can't Stop (Video) on MUZU.TV. Obama talked about the significance of soul music, saying: "Let's face it, who does not love this music? These songs get us on the dance floor. They get stuck in our heads. We go back over them again and again. And they've played an important part in our history. However, there was a serious side to the events. Memphis, Tennessee, was segregated in the Sixties but people of all races within the music industry helped to "bridge those divides, to create a little harmony with harmony," Obama said. He noted that two of the night's guests, Booker T Jones (below) and Steve Cropper, helped form one of the city's first integrated bands. They weren't allowed to go to school together. They weren't always allowed to travel or eat together," the President said. But no one could stop them from playing music together. "And that was the spirit of their music - the sound of Soulsville, USA, a music that, at its core, is about the pain of being alone, the power of human connection, and the importance of treating each other right," Obama said. After all, this is the music that asked us to try a little tenderness. It's the music that put Mr Big Stuff in his place. And it's the music that challenged us to accept new ways of thinking with four timeless words: 'Can you dig it?' The concert itself featured Moore, American Idol finalist and gospel singer Joshua Ledet (singing Moore's Soul Man) followed minutes later by Justin Timberlake (below, with Charlie Musselwhite) and Cropper's rendition of Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay. Obama's wife and daughters, Malia and Sasha, sat with him in the front row. The concert was the 10th in the In Performance at the White House series since Obama took office. Other performers included Alabama Shakes, Ben Harper, Cyndi Lauper, Musselwhite and William Bell, who sang You Don't Miss Your Water. Queen Latifah was the host and Booker T led the band.