Jon Batiste

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Jon Batiste on the healing power of music and love (Sand Hills Express)

Correspondent Jim Axelrod said, “They just kept calling your name.” “I was really floored every single time,” Batiste said. “We Are” demonstrates this ...

This is just a bump in the road.” Hold onto the light.” Focus on the light. And we’re having to hold these two realities.” The darkness will try to overtake you, but just turn on the light. “What a year!” said Axelrod. Asked today how she is, Jaouad said, “A lot has changed in a year. “I’ve always thought that you have a sound, and sound represents something,” Batiste said. From one day to the next, your world can be turned upside-down.” We didn’t have wedding bands; we used bread ties.” “The music is always speaking to you. When this year’s Grammy nominations were announced, Jon Batiste heard his name 11 times – the most of any artist this year.

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Jon Batiste, Suleika Jaouad announce they were secretly married (CBS News)

The bandleader of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and the bestselling author of "Between Two Kingdoms" reveal they secretly wed in February on the eve ...

That sense of community, that sense of love, that sense of joy and spontaneity were so important." "We were so happy, so brimming with love and positivity from this beautiful evening that we'd had. And it was perfect." It just makes it all the clearer to me that I want to commit to this and for us to be together.' But once we realized we had this tiny window before the bone marrow transplant, we decided to go for it. "We have known that we wanted to get married, I think, from the first week that we started dating. This is just a bump in the road."

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Who is Jon Batiste's wife, Suleika Jaouad?... (The Sun)

FIRST meeting over 20 years ago, Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste are longtime partners with successful careers in writing and music.Suleika is an Emmy-

"We have known that we wanted to get married, I think, from the first week that we started dating. That's when Jon first brought up the topic of marriage to me. He co-composed the Pixar film Soul's entire score, is the music director of The Atlantic, and the Creative Director at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. The Batiste family has established themselves in New Orleans as a musical dynasty, and Jon has been playing many instruments since childhood. She was an Anacapa Scholar in Residence at the Thacher School and a lecturer in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University. She graduated with the highest honors from Princeton University in 2010, majoring in Near Eastern Studies with a double minor in Gender Studies and French.

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Book excerpt: "Between Two Kingdoms" by Suleika Jaouad (Yahoo News)

In her New York Times bestselling memoir, the author recounts her years-long chemotherapy, and how her friendship with an old acquaintance from band camp, ...

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