JON BATISTE. With eleven Grammy Award nominations and five trophies collected, singer and jazzman Jon Batiste is the big winner of the ceremony. Portrait.
He was the big favorite of this 64th Grammy Awards ceremony: with eleven nominations, jazzman Jon Batiste leaves with five trophies, including that, considered the supreme award of the American music industry, Album of the Year. A title won thanks to its disc We Arereleased in March 2021. Jon Batiste was also awarded for the music of the animated film Drunk which won him an Oscar in 2021. The virtuoso musician competed in almost all musical styles, and also won the Grammy for Best Music Video for FreedomBest American Original Performance and Best American Original Song for cry.
“I am deeply convinced of this, there is no better artist, better musician, better dancer, better actor. The creative arts are subjective and they touch people at a moment in their life when they need it. most needed,” said Jon Batiste upon receiving his fifth Grammy of the night.
Born on November 11, 1986 in Louisiana, Jonathan “Jon” Batiste has worked, during his career, with the greatest artists in the world, such as Stevie Wonder, Prince, Willie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, or Ed Sheeran and Mavis Staples. A virtuoso jazzman and multi-instrumentalist, Jon Batiste is also a conductor, civil rights activist and Oscar-winning composer. And now, multi-winning at the Grammy Awards.
Fascinated first by the drums then by the piano, he released at the age of 17 his first album, Times in New Orleans. In March 2021, Jon Batiste released his eighth album, We Arethat he addresses the themes of hope and solidarity, he who has become a face of the fight for social justice and against racial discrimination.