{"id":117490,"date":"2024-04-11T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/11\/paul-simon-performs-graceland-at-white-house-state-dinner\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:01:06","slug":"paul-simon-performs-graceland-at-white-house-state-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/11\/paul-simon-performs-graceland-at-white-house-state-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon performs \u201cGraceland\u201d at White House State Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-11\/Getty_PaulSimon_041124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> was the musical entertainment at the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">White House State Dinner for Japan\u2019s Prime Minister\u00a0<strong>Fumio<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Kishida <\/strong>and <strong>Yuko\u00a0Kishida<\/strong>,\u00a0hosted by President <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> and First Lady <strong>Jill Biden <\/strong>on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Video posted to social media shows Simon performing an acoustic version of his Grammy-winning song \u201cGraceland\u201d at the event, which former President\u00a0<strong>Bill<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Clinton<\/strong>,\u00a0former Secretary of State\u00a0<strong>Hilary Clinton<\/strong>, Amazon CEO <strong>Jeff Bezos<\/strong>, <strong>Robert De Niro<\/strong>, Apple CEO <strong>Tim Cook<\/strong> and more attended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Simon revealed last May that he had lost hearing in his left ear, making it difficult to play, although things have now changed. Just last month, he revealed that his hearing had returned enough to make him feel comfortable enough to sing and play guitar again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images Paul Simon was the musical entertainment at the\u00a0White House State Dinner for Japan\u2019s Prime Minister\u00a0Fumio\u00a0Kishida and Yuko\u00a0Kishida,\u00a0hosted by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on Wednesday. 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