Batiste adds Color Purple to vivid CV
GRAMMY award winner Jon Batiste is to make his acting debut in an upcoming remake of The Color Purple.
The 35-year-old, who this month picked up five Grammys, including album of the year for We Are, will play Grady in the new Warner Bros adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker.
Set in rural Georgia in the US,THE Color Purple follows Celie, a poor black woman, whose dreams are repeatedly shattered by the cruelty of males.
American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino has been cast as Celie.
The hit 1985 film was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Whoopi Goldberg as Celie.