Composer

Jon Batiste

Born November 11, 1986 in Kenner, Louisiana, USA10 films

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.

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First watchSoul20208.1Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach

6.9The Garfield Movie2024

6.7Saturday Night2024

6.5American Symphony2023

Filmography

10 films

2027The Thomas Crown AffairOriginal Music Composer
2025Big Money: A Spiritual ManifestoMusic
2024Saturday NightOriginal Music Composer
2024The Garfield MovieSongs
2023American SymphonySongs
2023Jon Batiste @ Ground ControlOriginal Music Composer
2021The First WaveOriginal Music Composer
2020SoulOriginal Music Composer
2020She BallOriginal Music Composer
2016Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series FinaleMusic Director