Jon Batiste

Jonathan Michael Batiste born November 11 1986 is an American singer songwriter multiinstrumentalist 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 cocomposed 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