Barack Obama has shared his annual summer playlist, which the former president started on a somber note by acknowledging the death of Glen Hansard. “Here are some of the songs I’ve been listening to this summer,” Obama wrote on social media Thursday. “It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Elsewhere on the summer playlist is Drake, Sonny Rollins, Nina Simone, Buena Vista Social Club, Los Lobos, Chaka Khan, and Sam & Dave, as well as some tastemaking picks by October London, Gvrden Boy, Gabriel Jacoby, and Baby Rose.