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Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and for those of you tuning in

this episode is being recorded in front of an audience of film students

at Chapman University where I am a trustee professor.

My guest today is a singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader, and actor

who at just 37 has already accumulated 20 Grammy nominations winning five including

in 2022 album of the year for his album We Are and he also has to his name an

Academy Award a Golden Globe Award, and a Baffda Award, all for the

score of the 2020 film Soul, as well as the artist who is only getting better. Winton Marcellus, Jazz at Lincoln Center's artistic and managing director, said of him,

he is a modern virtuoso, an elegant and electric performer with an unbelievably rich palette of techniques and styles rooted in New Orleans soul

He is engaging entertaining and accurate and time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

This year he was nominated for six Grammys, including each of the Big Three, Album of the Year

for World Music Radio, Record of the Year for Worship,

and Song of the Year for Butterfly.

And he is nominated for the best original song Oscar, for his tune

tune, it never went away, which is featured in Matthew Heineman's American

symphony, a Netflix documentary feature about the best of times and the worst of

times in the life of this man and his wife

Suleka Ruad. Would you please join me in welcoming to the Hollywood

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