Jon Batiste and his wife Suleika Jaouad has to skip the 2025 Grammy Awards.
On Sunday, Feb. 2, the couple — who tied the knot in February 2022 — shared a joint post to Instagram celebrating their win for best music film and for song written for visual media for the documentary American Symphony.
“On this lazy Sunday, life is good!” Batiste, 38, and Jaouad, 36, captioned the post, alongside a photo of them together. “We’re so honored to win the Grammy for Best Music Film (and also for Song Written For Visual Media too!). We couldn’t make it to the ceremony but we’re beaming love from our couch to yours, and sending gratitude to all who made this film possible.”
In December 2024, Jaoud revealed she discovered she had cancer for “the third time” in an Instagram post.
“I have a little end-of-year ritual: I go through my entire camera roll from beginning to end,” she wrote alongside a carousel of photos. “I did it yesterday, and I cried and felt overwhelming gratitude.”
Jaoud continued: “When you learn for the third time you have cancer, it’s easy to feel hopeless. But my photos showed me that even in the hardest moments, there were so many joys. That life is not a monolith. That our forever work is to learn to hold the brutal and beautiful in the same palm.”
“In 2024 so many surreal things happened—starting with our doc American Symphony being nominated for so many awards,” she wrote. “For the Oscars the one and only @angelinajolie designed her first gown for me, and I adopted @lentilbatiste that weekend.”
Jaoud noted that her “health was in flux.”
“I felt healthier than ever only to learn my leukemia was back,” she wrote. “I had to adjust to a grueling monthly chemo regimen. My dad stepped in as my caregiver and I’ve cherished our one-on-one time.”
She added: “And then there’s my greatest joy—my husband @jonbatiste who’s been by my side at every turn on the roller coaster. I didn’t know a love like this was possible. He makes everything better.”
Jaoud noted that in 2024 she felt her “lowest and most defeated” and also had “the wildest, most beautiful moments of my life.”
“Life is all flow all the time and there is a comfort in that flux. Like how I went straight from five days of chemo to taking our family on a special trip,” she wrote.
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Jaoud missed the 2022 Grammys due to a cancer diagnosis.
At the time, Batiste was nominated for nearly a dozen Grammy Awards.
However, Jaouad was not able to attend that night; she was home recovering from a bone marrow transplant after a relapse of the leukemia she first was diagnosed with at age 22.
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