Before university, Suleika Jaouad attended a programme at The Juilliard School for double ... Her editorial series Life, Interrupted was published in The New York Times, and drew attention for ...

Sadly, at the age of 22, Suleika was diagnosed with leukaemia leading her to write a column for the New York Times entitled Life, Interrupted ... Jaouad met as teenagers while at band camp.

Jon Batiste and wife Suleika Jaouad are a united force, no matter what life throws at them ... it was at the most awkward place on earth: band camp,” Jaouad wrote via Instagram in 2020.