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Jun 1, 2021 · Jon Batiste - Event Tickets. My new album ‘WE ARE’ is out now: https://jon-batiste.lnk.to/WeAre Shop merch: https://jonbatistestore.com Follow Jon: Instagram:...
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We Are (stylized in all caps) is the sixth studio album by Jon Batiste. It was released on Verve Records on March 19, 2021. In April 2022, We Are won Album of the Year at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards; it earned Batiste nine nominations in total, with five wins.
- R&B Jazz Soul Pop Hip Hop
The Louisiana-born pianist, composer, and bandleader/musical director of Stay Human, the house band for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, came up with the blueprint for the album during a six-day period from his dressing room at the Ed Sullivan Theater alongside singer-songwriter Autumn Rowe.
Apr 3, 2022 · Jon Batiste, a vision of grace on the red carpet in a monochromatic burgundy suit, brings the same passion to his music that won him five GRAMMYs and 19 nominations, including his Album Of The Year win for 2021's We Are.
- Nomination momentum. A little meta here, but sometimes recognition breeds recognition with award shows — and going into the voting, no artist was more recognized in the nominations at this year’s Grammys than Jon Batiste.
- Musician’s musician. As with Jacob Collier’s unexpected AOTY nomination for the 2021 awards, we forget sometimes that the Grammys aren’t primarily a vote of music fans or even of music critics or commentators, but of music makers themselves — performers, writers, producers, instrumentalists and others.
- Alt-pop s inger-songwriter overlap (and burnout?). Pop singer-songwriters (with a little bit of alternative edge) have triumphed in album of the year for each of the past two years, with Taylor Swift’s Folklore taking home top honors in 2021 and Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
- Wide-ranging demographic ownership. We also sometimes forget as music fans — particularly mainstream, pop-oriented music fans — that it’s not just pop-world Recording Academy members who vote in these awards.
Apr 4, 2021 · NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jon Batiste. The prolific artist, who has composed music for Disney and whose band plays for Stephen Colbert, is releasing a solo album.
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WE ARE is the eighth studio album by Jon Batiste. It was released on March 19, 2021. It received 11 GRAMMY nominations, winning five including Album Of The Year.
