Everyone seems to be about to find out how gifted Jon Batiste is.
The 38-year-old multi-hyphenate performer will sing the nationwide anthem on the 2025 Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans this Sunday.
Batiste’s efficiency will kick off the sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles in his native Louisiana. This marks his first look on the Tremendous Bowl as a performer.
He follows in Reba McEntire’s footsteps, who sang the nationwide anthem on the 2024 Tremendous Bowl.
The opposite 2025 Tremendous Bowl performers embrace Lauren Daigle and Trombone Shorty, who’re singing “America the Beautiful,” Ledisi, who’s performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and Kendrick Lamar, who’s headlining the halftime present.
Final month, Batiste advised Leisure Tonight that he desires his Tremendous Bowl efficiency to final “the test of time.”
Right here’s all the things it’s essential to learn about Jon Batiste.
Jon Batiste is a singer
Batiste’s profession as a singer started after he attended Juilliard College in New York. Batiste and a few of his friends fashioned the band Keep Human they usually carried out jazz on the streets of New York. In 2015, they turned the home band on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
In 2020, Batiste’s star brightened when he participated in a Juneteenth celebration in Brooklyn, New York. He carried out on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library with jazz pianist Matt Whitaker.
That very same 12 months, Batiste composed the rating for the Pixar animated film “Soul,” which earned him Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy awards.
Batiste has launched six studio albums, 9 EPs and three collaborative albums. He’s collaborated with Prince, Stevie Marvel, Alicia Keys, Ed Sheeran, Lenny Kravitz, Lana Del Rey and extra stars through the years.
“Music keeps me young,” the musician stated in a 2021 interview about his profession with Individuals.
Jon Batiste has gained 7 Grammys
Batiste gained 5 Grammys on the 2022 award ceremony alone. He took house prizes for Album of the 12 months (for “We Are”), Greatest Music Video (for “Freedom”), Greatest Rating Soundtrack for Visible Media (for “Soul”), and Greatest American Roots Efficiency and Greatest American Roots Tune (each for “Cry”).
“Man, it’s so much I’m still processing,” he later stated on Colbert’s present about successful Album of the 12 months. “First, I thought the fact that my family was there with me to witness that is incredible. It’s incredible. Just so much went into that moment: piano lessons, some civil rights marches.”
On the 2025 Grammy Awards, Batiste gained Greatest Music Movie (for his documentary “American Symphony”) and Greatest Tune Written for Visible Media (for “It Never Went Away”).
Jon Batiste can be an actor
A few of Batiste’s appearing credit embrace “Saturday Night,” the film concerning the first episode of “SNL.” He performed the function of musician Billy Preston and likewise composed the movie’s rating.
Batiste additionally appeared within the 2023 remake of “The Color Purple” alongside Fantasia, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks.
Jon Batiste is married
Batiste has been married to journalist, musician and best-selling writer Suleika Jaouad since February 2022. They met as youngsters at band camp and reconnected 12 years later when Jaouad, 36, was getting therapy for leukemia.
Jaouad was first recognized with acute myeloid leukemia at age 22. She beat the illness — solely to disclose in December 2021 that it had returned.
“When I got the biopsy results, it felt like a sinkhole opened up and swallowed everything,” she wrote in a publication on the time. “Within 72 hours, Jon and I packed our things, found friends to care for Oscar and Loulou, gave copies of our keys to our neighbor, canceled work and cleared our schedules, and were on our way to the hospital in New York City.”
Jaouad turned cancer-free once more after getting a bone marrow transplant.
Nevertheless, she confirmed in December 2024 that she had most cancers for the third time.
Batiste and Jaouad each skipped the 2025 Grammys due to her well being, however they shared a selfie on Instagram reacting to their documentary “American Symphony” — which explores the couple’s relationship and Jaouad’s most cancers battle — successful two Grammys.
“We couldn’t make it to the ceremony but we’re beaming love from our couch to yours, and sending gratitude to all who made this film possible,” the couple’s caption learn.
