Alicia Keys Engaged to Swizz Beatz, Pregnant With First Child

Alicia Keys' reps confirmed a pair of big announcements yesterday: the twenty-nine-year-old singer is engaged to her boyfriend, producer Swizz Beatz, and is also expecting her first child, according to Us . The news comes after months of speculation that the singer was pregnant. According to Us, Keys and Beatz, who have reportedly been dating since 2008, will wed in a private ceremony later this year. In related news, Beatz has recently finalized his divorce from R&B singer Mashonda, after the two split up in 2008.

News of Keys' pregnancy comes just as the singer approaches the final five tour dates of her European trek in support of Element of Freedom, which wraps June 6th in the Canary Islands off Spain. Keys will also perform at the World Cup kick-off celebration in South Africa on June 10th and take the stage on Good Morning America on June 25th. Her schedule clears up after that. Of starting a family, Keys said recently, "I absolutely am very interested in starting [one]. 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."

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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