Jon Batiste
Personal Info
Known For Sound
Gender Male
Birthday 1986-11-11 (38 years old)
Place of Birth Kenner, Louisiana, USA
Also Known As TK Hazelton, Jonathan Batiste, Jonathan Michael Batiste
Jon Batiste
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.
Known For
Sound
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Music
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Music Director
Actor
as Billy Preston
as Grady
as Self
as Self - Roundtable Talent
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Band Leader
as Da Organist Tk Hazelton
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Performer
Producer
as Executive Producer