Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste
- Date of birth
- Age
- 39
- Place of birth
- Kenner, Louisiana, USA
- Citizenship
- United States
- Occupations
- jazz musician, pianist, singer, musician, teacher, bandleader
- Languages
- English
Biography
Jonathan Michael Batiste (born November 11, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer, and television personality. He has recorded and performed with artists including Stevie Wonder, Prince, Willie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey, Roy Hargrove, Juvenile, and Mavis Staples. Batiste, with his band Stay Human, appeared nightly as bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert from 2015 to 2022.
Batiste also serves as the music director of The Atlantic and the Creative Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. 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). Batiste has garnered 5 Grammy Awards from 14 nominations, including an Album of the Year win for his album We Are (2021).
In 2023, Batiste featured in the documentary film American Symphony which records the process of Batiste composing his first symphony.
Education
- Juilliard School
- New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)
- St. Augustine High School
Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Score2021 Soul
- Grammy Awards2022
- Golden Globes
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts2021
- Time 1002022
Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Original Song2024 It Never Went Away
Education and awards: Wikidata information may be incomplete. Wikidata · Updated: 2026-10-24
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