{"id":117283,"date":"2024-03-11T03:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/11\/oscars-2024-jon-batiste-sings-best-original-song-nominee-it-never-went-away\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T03:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:05:59","slug":"oscars-2024-jon-batiste-sings-best-original-song-nominee-it-never-went-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/11\/oscars-2024-jon-batiste-sings-best-original-song-nominee-it-never-went-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2024: Jon Batiste sings Best Original Song nominee &#8220;It Never Went Away&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-10\/M_Jonbatisteandwife_031024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jon Batiste and wife Suleika Jaouad; Disney\/Scott Kirkland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grammy and Oscar-winning musician <strong>Jon Batiste<\/strong> performed his Best Original Song nominee &#8220;It Never Went Away&#8221; at the Academy Awards on March 10.<\/p>\n<p>The song is from the documentary<em> American Symphony<\/em>, which documents a year in Batiste&#8217;s life, during which he received 11 Grammy nominations, but also saw his wife struggle with leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>As Batiste sang the ballad seated at the piano, clips from famous movie love scenes were projected on a circular screen above him.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Batiste won the Best Original Score Oscar for co-composing the score for the animated film <em>Soul.<\/em>\u00a0 He co-wrote &#8220;It Never Went Away&#8221; with Grammy winner <strong>Dan Wilson<\/strong>, best known as a member of the band <strong>Semisonic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Batiste and wife Suleika Jaouad; Disney\/Scott Kirkland Grammy and Oscar-winning musician Jon Batiste performed his Best Original Song nominee &#8220;It Never Went Away&#8221; at the Academy Awards on March 10. The song is from the documentary American Symphony, which documents a year in Batiste&#8217;s life, during which he received<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/11\/oscars-2024-jon-batiste-sings-best-original-song-nominee-it-never-went-away\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,428,429],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}