Golden Globe award-winner Jon Batiste has also been nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for the score of the film ‘Soul’.
LONDON: American musician Jon Batiste says he was born to work on “Soul”, a hit Pixar animation about a Black music teacher, which has already won him a Golden Globe. Along with fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Batiste has also been nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for the film’s score.
Sitting at a piano in his New Jersey home, the 34-year-old, who was born into a well-known musical family in Louisiana, spoke to Reuters about “Soul” and his current awards season success.Q: How hard is it to do the music for an animation?“It’s a very innovative process … there was no script ever throughout the whole process … Some scenes were scored before there was animation … And we were working with three composers.
“Everything about this whole process is so unusual. If you can imagine a pitch meeting where you say, ‘I want to make a movie that is about these existential questions of where the soul is from and where it goes when we pass away. And I want to have a middle-aged Black man be the lead and it’s animated and it’s got jazz’ …. just the range of what we did, I felt like I really was born to do that.