Jon Batiste

Jon Batiste is an eight-time Grammy and Academy Award–winning singer, songwriter, and composer. His ninth studio album, BIG MONEY (released August 22 via Verve/Interscope) is rooted in American traditions spanning gospel and soul to blues, folk, and rock & roll. Featuring special guests such as No I.D., Randy Newman, and Andra Day, the album was nominated for three 2026 GRAMMY® Awards — Best Americana Album, Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song and earned the GRAMMY® Award for Best Americana Album. Batiste recently wrapped his national headlining tour in support of the project, which stopped at over 30 venues across the U.S., including Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN.

BIG MONEY caps a landmark year that included Batiste’s Super Bowl performance and the chart-topping success of his album Beethoven Blues, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Classical Albums chart and delivered his biggest sales week to date. Beethoven Blues followed 2023’s World Music Radio, which earned five Grammy nominations including Album of the Year. In 2021, Batiste released We Are, an album that earned 9 Grammy nominations and five wins including Album of the Year. His life during that period—marked by both career highs and his wife’s return of long-dormant cancer—is captured in the moving 2024 Netflix documentary American Symphony. Batiste co-wrote the film’s original song “It Never Went Away,” which earned a GRAMMY® Award and Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.

Batiste’s accolades also include an Academy Award for Pixar’s Soul and a seven-year tenure as band leader and musical director of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.