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Tracklist:

1. We Are [Feat. St. Augustine High School Marching 100 & David Gauthier & Gospel Soul Children Choir & Craig Adams & Braedon Gautier & Brennan Gautier & Autumn Rowe]
2. Tell The Truth
3. Cry
4. I Need You
5. Whatchutalkinbout
6. Boy Hood [Feat. Pj Morton & Trombone Shorty]
7. Movement 11’
8. Adulthood [Feat. Hot 8 Brass Band]
9. Mavis
10. Freedom
11. Show Me The Way [Feat. Zadie Smith]
12. Sing
13. Until
14. It’S All Right [Feat. Celeste]

‘WE ARE’ is a masterfully constructed and visionary album that represents a completely new sonic chapter for Jon Batiste and a new direction for music culture as a whole. Writing, travelling, painting all while inviting some of the most esteemed creative minds to assist in birthing the album he reached the finish line smack in the middle of the first wave of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and volatile social unrest. At the end, a masterpiece of Black Pop Music characterised by the consciousness of Marvin Gaye, the grounded optimism of Stevie Wonder, the iconoclasm of Thelonious Monk and the swagger of Mannie Fresh was born.