Here Are 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Jon Batiste | Billboard

Jon Batiste reveals five things you didn’t know about him to Billboard.

Jon Batiste:
Hello, I’m Jon Batiste, and this is five things you might not know about me.

I just learned how to swim last year. Still working on it. But I know how to swim now.

I was a basketball national champion before I was a jazz musician before I became a artist in high school.

I love love, love listening to the Spice Girls. It’s an amazing group.

I always put my albums out based upon people in my life and markers in time. For instance, like my last album was my maternal grandmother’s birthday. The next album will be my grandfather’s birthday.

My first instrument when I started playing music — before the piano, before even the drums — was the bongos, and I had a set of bongos that you could put right here in your lap. And I would play those and I only knew one pattern, and I played that same pattern for two years.

And those are five things you didn’t know about me … I hope.