Jon Batiste and Wife Suleika Jaoud Skip 2025 Grammys but Are 'So Grateful' for Win After Her Cancer Returns

Mar. 15, 2025

Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad in February 2025.Photo:Suleika Jaouad/Instagram

Suleika Jaouad/Instagram

Jon Batisteand his wifeSuleika Jaouadhad to skip the 2025Grammy Awards.

On Sunday, Feb. 2, the couple —who tied the knot in February 2022— shared ajoint post to Instagramcelebratingtheir wins for best music film and for song written for visual mediafor the documentaryAmerican 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 anInstagram 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 docAmerican Symphonybeing nominated for so many awards,” she wrote. “For the Oscars the one and only@angelinajoliedesigned her first gown for me, and I adopted@lentilbatistethat weekend.”

“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 Grammysdue to her second 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.

source: people.com