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Apr 3, 2022 · Nominated for: Best Original Song, "It Never Went Away" from American Symphony. 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.
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.
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Watch Jon Batiste's speech for Album Of The Year for ‘WE ARE’ at the 64th GRAMMY Awards. With 11 nominations, the New Orleans native received the most nods of the 2022 GRAMMYs, taking home five awards.
Apr 4, 2022 · Jason Lamphier. Published on April 4, 2022 12:41AM EDT. Jon Batiste walked away with the coveted Album of the Year trophy at the 64th Grammy Awards Sunday night for his eighth studio album,...
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- 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, 2022 · Jon Batiste won big! At Sunday's Grammy Awards show in Las Vegas, the musician took home the coveted prize of album of the year for We Are, shortly after bringing the house down with a...
