Jon Batiste
Age: N/A | From: Kenner, Louisiana, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: TK Hazelton , Jonathan Batiste , Jonathan Michael Batiste
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Kenner, Louisiana, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 20
TV Involvements: 7
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Austin City Limits
(1975) Self
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
(2008) Self
Finding Your Roots
(2012) Self
The Oscars
(1953) Self - Performer
Treme
(2010) Self
American Symphony
(2023) Self
The Color Purple
(2023) GradyActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Self | |
| 2024 | N/A | |
| Billy Preston | ||
| 2023 | Self - Roundtable Talent | |
| Grady | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - Judge | ||
| 2022 | Self | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2021 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| 2019 | Self | |
| 2018 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2016 | Self - Band Leader | |
| 2015 | Self | |
| 2012 | Da Organist Tk Hazelton | |
| Self | ||
| 2010 | Self | |
| 2009 | Self - Guest | |
| 2008 | Self | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| 1997 | Self - Guest | |
| 1988 | Self | |
| 1975 | Self | |
| 1974 | Self - Presenter | |
| 1971 | Self | |
| 1959 | Self | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| Self - Performer | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Original Music Composer | |
| Songs | ||
| 2023 | Music | |
| Original Music Composer | ||
| Songs | ||
| 2021 | Original Music Composer | |
| 2020 | Original Music Composer | |
| Original Music Composer | ||
| 2016 | Music Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |