Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys and record producer Swizz Beatz will tie the knot this summer— before their bundle of joy enters the world.
“They’re planning a celebration in Europe very soon,” an insider reveals to Life & Style. “It will be a star-studded celebration,” with Jay-Z and Beyoncé among the celebrity guests. In fact, Alicia, who is five months pregnant, has already settled on a dress for the big day. “She’s decided on a Vera Wang gown and has been eyeing Christian Louboutin shoes,” a second insider tells Life & Style.
What are loved ones saying about the pending union? “They make a great couple,” a close friend tells Life & Style. “They’re perfect for each other.” As for the mama and bride-to-be: “I love children and I love family,” she says.
Pregnant R&B star Alicia Keys gave fans a scare during her performance at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Saturday when she fell on her backside while on stage.
The Empire State of Mind hitmaker was one of the headliners at the annual three-day event, sharing the bill with superstars such as Janet Jackson and Mary J. Blige, but she had concert-goers fearing for her and her unborn baby’s safety when she tumbled backwards and fell while singing Love Is Blind.
The fall prompted gasps from the crowd but Keys, who had been wearing stiletto heels, refused to let the mishap disrupt her show, climbing back to her feet and taking her place at the piano to continue the song.
A source close to the star insists mother and baby were unharmed in the incident.
The performance is one of the singer’s last scheduled shows before she takes maternity leave to prepare for the birth of her first child with her fiance, producer Swizz Beatz.
Big news from Alicia Keys: she’s going to be a mom!
Following much speculation, a rep for the Grammy winner tells UsMagazine.com that Keys, 29, and producer beau Swizz Beatz “are expecting a baby and are engaged to be married later this year.”
A pal tells Us, “They are very happy.”
It’s the first child for Keys; Beatz, 31, has a young son, Kasseem Jr., with his first wife Mashonda.
Back in January, a source revealed to Us that Beatz, 31, secretly proposed to Keys in Hawaii with a 7-carat sparkler. “She is with the man who has inspired so much of her music and her album [The Element of Freedom],” a Keys pal told Us at the time.
And her husband-to-be is equally smitten. “What we have is so precious,” Beatz gushed to the New York Daily News last year.
Of motherhood, Keys recently admitted, “I absolutely am very interested in starting a family. It is one of the most beautiful experiences to have in this life and I am looking forward to it when it is my time.”
Singers Beyonce Knowles and Alicia Keys were seen at Santa Marta slum, in Rio de Janeiro, to shoot a scene for Beyonce’s music video ‘Put It in a Love Song’, in which they sing in duo. Both singers as well Madonna are all staying at the same hotel, the Fasano, in Ipanema
