Jon Batiste Says Grammys Will Be a 'Do-Over' with Wife Suleika After Cancer Forced Her to Miss 2022 Show (Exclusive)

The musician — who stars in the new documentary 'American Symphony' — is up for six Grammys at the 2024 show

Jon Batiste may be nominated for six awards at the 2024 Grammys, but that’s not the only reason he’s looking forward to the show.

The musician, 37, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue that he’ll have wife Suleika Jaouad by his side for the show, allowing the couple something of a “do-over,” as her health prevented her from joining him at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

“It’s our opportunity to have a do-over. In fact it’s very poetic because my song that’s nominated for song of the year, ‘Butterfly,’ started off as a lullaby that I wrote for Suleika in the hospital,” says Batiste.

The “Freedom” singer had an impressive showing at the Grammys in 2022, winning five of the nearly dozen awards he was nominated for, including the coveted album of the year.

But as he performed at the show and mingled with stars like Billie Eilish, Jaouad, 35, was at home, watching his big night from the couch as she recovered from a bone marrow transplant following a cancer recurrence.

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The night is featured in a moving scene from the couple’s new documentary American Symphony (streaming on Netflix Nov. 29), and serves as a prime example of the ways in which his personal life and professional life were at odds.

“It’s hard to be present when you’re in moments like the Grammys and everything is pulling your attention, and you have to be supremely focused, and you’ve worked all this time for a certain goal in your mind, and your partner is at home and going through this,” he says. “It was a lot of anxiety mixed with a lot of raw emotion and celebration. I think this year is going to be great.”

Batiste continues: “I think it’s going to be an amazing, poetic full-circle moment. It’s indeed [a big deal] but it’s an even bigger deal that it’s that song and Suleika and I will be there together.”

This year, the former Late Show bandleader is up for six Grammys, including album of the year once again.

“I’m so excited to celebrate Jon not from the couch, but the actual Grammys,” says Jaouad, a journalist and author.

During the 2022 Grammys, Batiste was a newlywed, as he and Jaouad tied the knot at home that February, just one day before she underwent her transplant. This time around, they’ll have two years of marriage under their belt.

“I tell everybody, if you find the person, take the jump,” he says.

The couple’s love story is featured prominently in American Symphony, which paints a portrait of their lives leading up to the September 2022 debut of Batiste’s original symphony at Carnegie Hall.

The film, directed by Matthew Heineman, was initially conceived as a way of documenting the creation of the symphony. But shortly after, the couple received news that the acute myeloid leukemia with which Jaouad was first diagnosed at 22 had returned, and that Batiste had been nominated for 11 Grammys, setting in motion a very different storyline than the one they’d originally planned.

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The result is an intimate depiction of a man doing his best to juggle the soaring highs of his career with the devastating lows of his personal life, and the ways in which love and art can heal.

“So much of what we all have to do in life is learning to navigate the peaks and the valleys,” says Jaouad.

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