Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Everyone is about to learn how talented Jon Batiste is. The 38-year-old multi-hyphenate performer will sing the national anthem at the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans this Sunday. Batiste’s performance ...

Jon Batiste put an Orleanian twist on the national anthem to kick off Super Bowl 2025. The seven-time Grammy winner sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the field at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on ...

Jon Batiste and his parents, Michael and Katherine Batiste, attends the 2022 Time100 Gala on June 08, 2022 in New York City. Jon Batiste’s parents, Michael and Katherine Batiste, helped him flourish ...

Multi-Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar winner Jon Batiste tells Julia Marcus about his upcoming release "Black Mozart," which ...

Jon Batiste will “definitely” lean into his jazz roots when he takes the stage to sing the national anthem this Sunday. The Grammy winner, 38, told Page Six he is “always going to represent” his ...

An all-star lineup of blues greats will converge at Radio City Music Hall for a concert celebrating the 90th birthday of ...

Critically-acclaimed and deservedly decorated musician and composer Jon Batiste performed a rousing set of symphonic ...

Jon Batiste has a gift for transforming even the most recognizable music into something unmistakably his own. When the New Orleans-reared pianist performed in Davies Symphony Hall last May, he ...

The Opening Ceremony for the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games was held on Saturday evening at the University of Minnesota’s ...

New Orleans native Jon Batiste took the field at the Caesars Super Dome in his hometown to perform the national anthem to kick off Super Bowl LIX. Much like today’s halftime headliner, Kendrick Lamar, ...

NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with musician and composer Jon Batiste about his new album, "Beethoven Blues," in which he riffs on classical favorites. On his new album, "Beethoven Blues," pianist, ...