00:00 Hello, I'm John Baptiste,
00:01 and this is "Five Things You Might Not Know About Me."
00:04 [upbeat music]
00:07 I just learned how to swim last year.
00:12 Still working on it, but I know how to swim now.
00:14 I was a basketball national champion
00:18 before I was a jazz musician,
00:20 before I became an artist in high school.
00:24 I love, love, love listening to the Spice Girls.
00:30 It's an amazing group.
00:32 I always put my albums out based upon people in my life
00:35 and markers in time.
00:37 For instance, like my last album
00:38 was my maternal grandmother's birthday.
00:40 The next album will be my grandfather's birthday.
00:44 My first instrument when I started playing music,
00:48 before the piano, before even the drums, was the bongos.
00:54 And I had a set of bongos that you could put right here
00:59 in your lap, and I would play those,
01:02 and I only knew one pattern.
01:04 And I played that same pattern for two years.
01:07 And those are five things you didn't know about me, I hope.
01:10 [upbeat music]
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