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• Jon Batiste:

  The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orl

• Jon Batiste:

  I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. An

• Jon Batiste:

  Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am

• Jon Batiste:

  I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the

• Jon Batiste:

  Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were p

• Jon Batiste:

  There's a tradition - in New Orleans it still exists - where people play in the street. People play

• Jon Batiste:

  Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital n

• Jon Batiste:

  We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very v

• Jon Batiste:

  You can't hate the person next to you when you're laughing and dancing together.

• Jon Batiste:

  There were so many people after that first 'Colbert Report' interview that were impressed by the sy