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Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and the Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born on October 18, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana, he is the second of six sons of Dolores and Ellis Marsalis. Marsalis has a son with actress Victoria Rowell. From an early age, Marsalis showed a talent for music, performing traditional New Orleans music at the Fairview Baptist Church band at age eight and with the New Orleans Philharmonic at 14. During high school, he played with various ensembles, including the New Orleans Symphony Brass Quintet and the New Orleans Youth Orchestra. At 17, he became the youngest musician admitted to Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center, where he won the Harvey Shapiro Award for outstanding brass student. Marsalis moved to New York City to attend Juilliard in 1979, where he began to perform around the city. In 1980, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and later collaborated with jazz legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, and Herbie Hancock. In 1987, he co-founded a jazz program at Lincoln Center, which became Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1996. In 2004, he opened Frederick P. Rose Hall, the first institution for jazz with dedicated performance spaces. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards in both jazz and classical music and is the only artist to win Grammy Awards for

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