Jon Batiste is a singer, songwriter, composer and pianist known for his genre-defying music, the winner of an Emmy and eight Grammys and an Academy Award nominee. His 2026 album, Big Money, won the Grammy for best Americana album. This spring, he announced three new piano albums, which will begin with Black Mozart (Batiste Piano Series, Vol 2), followed by Thelonious Monk: Monk Meditations and Monk Movements. Batiste was also the subject of the critically acclaimed 2023 Netflix documentary American Symphony, for which he co-wrote the Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning song “It Never Went Away.” His next project will be composing the score for The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Michael B Jordan.