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Pride at the White House before Tuesday's peformance.

Before singing at the White House last evening, country music legend Charley Pride told NPR's Don Gonyea that he's never mixed politics with his music. But country's first African-American superstar also said that last year he was pulling for Obama to become the nation's first African-American president. And, had this to say about the president:

"I don't want to belabor it because I don't have all the answers, but I do believe that everybody that's born on this planet is born for a certain thing. I do believe there's a certain amount of divine purpose involved in a whole bunch of things on this planet, and he's one of them. I think 47 years ago he was born to be where he is today."