Career īatiste plays at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival By the end of 2006, Batiste had been a featured performer in South Africa, London, Lisbon, Spain, Paris and the United States. While at Juilliard, he released his second album, Live in New York: At the Rubin Museum of Art. He then went on to attend the Juilliard School, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 2008 and a Master of Music in 2011, both in jazz studies. Augustine High School and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts with Trombone Shorty in New Orleans and graduated in 2004. Īt 17, Batiste released his debut album Times in New Orleans. Batiste developed his piano skills by taking classical music lessons and transcribing songs from video games such as Street Fighter Alpha, Final Fantasy VII and Sonic the Hedgehog. At the age of 11, he switched to piano at his mother's suggestion. At the age of 8, he played percussion and drums with his family's band, the Batiste Brothers Band. Batiste is a member of a New Orleans musical dynasty, the Batiste family, that includes Lionel Batiste of the Treme Brass Band, Milton Batiste of the Olympia Brass Band, and Russell Batiste Jr. Jon Batiste was born in Metairie, Louisiana, in a Catholic family. As of 2022, Batiste has garnered five Grammy Awards from 11 nominations, including an Album of the Year win for his album We Are. In 2020, he co-composed the score for the Pixar animated film Soul, for which he received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award and a BAFTA Film Award (all shared with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross). īatiste also serves as the music director of The Atlantic and the Creative Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Batiste regularly tours with his band Stay Human, and appeared with them nightly as bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert from 2015 to 2022. He has recorded and performed with artists in various genres of music ( Stevie Wonder, Prince, Willie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, Ed Sheeran, Roy Hargrove, and Mavis Staples), released his own recordings, and performed in more than 40 countries.

Jonathan Michael Batiste (born November 11, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and television personality.

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