Jon Batiste was among the performers at the 2024 Oscars this evening (March 10), where he played his song “It Never Went Away” from the Netflix documentary American Symphony. Scroll down to watch Batiste play grand piano and sing on the Dolby Theatre stage.
Batiste’s track is up for Best Original Song tonight, and will face off with Barbie cuts “I’m Just Ken” and Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” as well as Becky G’s Flamin’ Hot track “The Fire Inside,” and Osage Tribal Singers’ “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon.
This marks Batiste’s second-ever Oscar nomination; he received his first nod in 2021 for the Pixar movie Soul, subsequently winning Best Original Score for his work on that film alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
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