Jon Batiste sister Kaleana Gautier is an Inpatient Team Lead at Ochsner Clinic Foundation. Kaleana Gautier also played piano as a child.
Jon is a well-known household name among many musicians. Jon Batiste is a reputed American musician, singer, television star, composer, bandleader and songwriter.
This exceptionally gifted musician was born on November 11, 1986, in Metairie, Louisiana. Right now, he is 36 years old.
He was born to his father Estella Michael Batiste and his mother Jean Batiste.
From a young age, he has been influenced by the music of his legendary family The Batiste family, including Lionel Batiste, Milton Batiste and Russell Batiste Jr.
He attended St. Augustine High School and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and graduated in 2004.
Later, he graduated from Julliard School where he received a Bachelor of Music in 2008 and a Master of Music in 2011.
To date, he has received 14 nominations, 32 wins and 1 Oscar award. He was the house band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert from 2015 to 2021.
Jon Batiste Sister Kaleana Gautier
Jon Batiste sister Kaleana Gautier is the eldest sibling of the musician. Kaleana Gautier has a masters in health care administration.
Kaleana Gautier rarely appears in any of her brother Jon’s social media photos. But when needed for the family photo, she is along with her family.
As said before, Kaleana is a few years older than her brother. She attended St. Augustine High School and along with her brother was at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts in New Orleans.
After graduating from high school, instead of pursuing music which she was not good in, she continued her studies in a different than her family expected.
Kaleana joined the University of New Orleans, where she pursued her studies for a Bachelor in Chemistry.
After graduating in 2009, she applied for Epic Willow Inpatient Certification in 2010 where after taking her test, and she was very successful in completing her test.
Later in 2012, she again joined the University of New Orleans, where she completed a Master of Science in Health, Health Care Administration and Management.
During her time at the university as an undergraduate student, she used to work as Pharmacy Technician for Walmart for 3 years.
Later she moved her work to Ochsner Clinic Foundation where she still works to date. Currently, she is working as an Epic Willow Inpatient Team Lead for the foundation and has been working for more than a decade.
The Grammy Winner Was Raised By Musical Parents
Jon Batiste parents are Estella Michael Batiste and Jean Batiste. Estella and Jean are both musicans.
Jon grew up among many musicians in his family. He has always been inspired by his family to follow in their footsteps in music.
Though not famous as other members of the Batiste family, Jon’s father, Michael was also part of the band in the 60s and 70s.
Estella Michael Batiste’s father was also a musician though not professionally but still, he was quite proficient in his days of playing the instrument.
So, for Michael, his first mentor in music was his father.
Later he also learned other instruments with the late clarinetist Alvin Batiste who taught him and all the people from New Orleans music over 40 years in his days.
After getting good with the music, Michael began to perform as a bassist along with Jackie Wilson and Issac hayes on the Chitlin Circuit in the late 60s.
He along with his brothers, founded the Batiste Brothers Band, a total of seven brothers, where they played R&B, soul, funk and New Orleanian music.
After moving to New York, he met the love of his life and the mother of his children, Jean Gauthier.
Jean was born in Metairie, Louisiana, to her father David Gauthier, who used to work in postal works and was the president of the Louisiana Postal Workers Union.
David was one of the reasons for the safer working conditions and higher wages for the job.
Now in New Orleans, the couple has opened a grocery store and a hardware store that they have been managing for a long time.
When Jon was small, around 8 years old, under his family’s influence, he had already begun to play percussion and drums at his father’s co-founded band, the Batiste Brothers Band.
When he was 11 years old, his mother suggested he play piano rather than percussion.
Seeing all his artistic talent in music, he was later admitted to New Orleans Center for Creative Arts with his sister. While he was in the arts center, he also befriended Tony Andrews, also known as Trombone Shorty.
Meet The Famous Batiste Family
Besides Jon Batiste from the Batiste family, there are other more Batistes that are very much into music and are reputed in the music industry.
Many members of the Batiste family are into music and have been for a long time. The whole members of the family included in the music only are around 25 people.
Like when Jon’s father Michael had co-founded a music band where there was a total of seven people playing in the group which included Alvin Batiste.
Lionel Batiste was a member of the Treme Brass Band or Milton Batiste from the Olympia Brass Band and Harold Batiste.
On the younger generations’ side, the family has well-repute Jon himself, along with Jamal Batiste, David Batiste, Russell Batiste Jr. and Damon Batiste.
In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Jon mentioned that he had over 30 cousins playing the music.