NEED TO KNOW Suleika Jaouad may have manifested her relationship with Jon Batiste . During an appearance on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard on Wednesday, July 2, Jaouad, 37, opened up about the moment she realized Batiste, 38, was the one. The journalist and author first met the We Are musician at band camp, and she recalled thinking she'd "never met anyone quite like him.
" However, at the time, she thought she'd "never see him again." "Fast-forward four years later. It was my first weekend at Julliard and I was on the 1 train with my friend Michelle and we see this guy who's like, attracting stares because he had headphones on and he was humming to himself and rocking around and playing the air piano," she recalled.
"Everyone was like, 'Who is this crazy dude?'" She continued, "So in that moment I was like, 'Oh, I know that guy.' I remembered him because he was so awkward and weird back then too. In the most delightful way.
I was like, 'That's Jon Batiste from New Orleans.'" Then, Jaouad "just blurted out: That's the man I'm going to marry someday." In February, the couple marked their third wedding anniversary — and three years since Jaouad’s bone marrow transplant.
That same month, they won two Grammy Awards for their documentary American Symphony “The reality is, for most of us, our lives aren’t binary. Life isn’t either good or bad or happy or sad. It’s all of it unfolding simultaneously all at once,” Jaouad, who released The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Pr.
