South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol grabbed a mic and sang the Don Mclean classic “American Pie” to an astonished audience at the White House state dinner. “I had no damn idea you could sing,” Biden told his counterpart.
grabbed a microphone and sang a verse of “American Pie” in front of President Biden and an oil portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
The pianist seemed unfazed. Three Broadway stars — Lea Salonga, Jessica Vosk and Norm Lewis — had performed the same song minutes earlier. And when Yoon finished his rendition, Biden presented him a guitar signed by the song’s author, Don McLean.
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