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Justin Timberlake Gets Obamas Singing Along During White House Performance

In the course of recent months, it appears Justin Timberlake wouldn't be gotten dead in a unpressed suit or tousled haircut. The "Suit & Tie" vocalist has taken his now-inescapable verses to heart as he presses on to advertise his since a long time ago anticipated come back to music —once in a while taking any stage not "pressed up in dark and white." And when he took the stage minor feet far from President Barack Obama Tuesday night, he determined his wardrobe was particularly cleaned. 

On paper, an exhibition at the White House appears to be a really formal issue. Be that as it may in movie posted on the web, Timberlake got really easy throughout hissyrupy assume "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay," all the more having the whole first family weaving their heads and chiming in. 

His exhibition was part of the "In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul," which partied about the city's sounds of the 1960s and invited soul-propelled entertainers old and new —from legends like Mavis Staples and Booker T. Jones to novices like the Alabama Shakes and "American Idol" finalist Joshua Ledet. 

Notwithstanding the way that he was onstage with 71-year-old guitarist Steve Cropper and that "they needed to make us take after Mavis" in the lineup, the 20/20 Experience vocalist appeared to be very at home near the swarm of Washington elites, whom he had feeling like they were truly simply viewing the tide roll away. When he finished off the Otis Redding standard in his smooth falsetto, Timberlake had no alarm ordering the Commander-in-Chief to take it away. "Mr. President, everyone, go ahead," he told the group of onlookers, giving them a chance to sing the theme before wrapping up. 

Additionally in the swarm was Timberlake's wife, Jessica Biel. While she looked balanced in a white dress and red lips, judging from her excited tweets prior in the day, might not have taken the presidential undertaking so easily. 

"I embraced POTUS. I embraced POTUS. I embraced POTUS," Biel tweeted Tuesday evening. Hours soon after his exhibition, Timberlake sat close by Staples, Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite and Sam Moore for the first woman's "Soulsville USA" understudy workshop. More than 100 secondary school understudies were welcomed to The House to examine what Mrs. Obama called "the musical notch of Memphis soul." 

"In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul" will air Tuesday at 8 p.m. on PBS. The sequence began throughout President Carter's management to party about each type of American music. The past extraordinary, final February's "Red, White and Blues," bragged a fabulous lineup incorporating B.B. Ruler, Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger and Gary Clark Jr.