The 11-year-old is growing into his preteen/teenage years and it’s a time Keys is dreading but also cherishing. “The child wins, and you as a father win, and the mom, and the bonus mom win as well, so then everybody wins,” Beatz said about proper co-parenting.Įgypt was born the same year Keys and Beatz married in 2010. Keys refers to Tifrere as her “ life partner.” In 2018, the blended family took a trip to Egypt with their kids. “And I felt, like, you know, ‘I want Alicia to be here.’ And not only did she come, but she stayed until the end of the party, and that moment was our first time really hanging out together as a family.” “That was a pivotal moment because we had already been doing a lot of the work as far as communicating and really consciously trying to get to a new level of respect,” Tifrere shared with Good Morning America in a 2018 joint interview with Keys and Beatz. A noticeable shift happened at Kasseem’s 6th birthday party. The divorce was considered painful, especially for their son Kasseem Jr., and a healthy co-parenting relationship took years for the trio to build. Over the years, the origins of the couple’s relationship have been controversial since it’s believed that Beatz was still married to his first wife, Mashonda Tifrere, when the two started dating. “It is a beautiful partnership,” Keys said of their blended family in an interview with Good Morning America. They refer to their co-parenting relationship as a “beautiful partnership.” He always says we're both of our own bosses, we're our own individuals, and I think that's really powerful to know.”įor Valentine’s Day, Keys shared a loving post about her husband on Instagram, thanking him for making her “levitate.” “ He’s always encouraging what it is that I'm envisioning,” she told E! in December 2021. According to Keys, Swizz is supportive and always in her corner. “I wanted nothing to do with that scene or with Swizz.”īut over the years, their mutual success in the music industry brought them back together and the two formed a friendship that led to a relationship, which led to marriage in 2010. “He’d usually pull up in some fancy car, rolling deep with his Bronx crew and shining with diamonds,” Keys wrote about her future husband in her autobiography More Myself. But at the time - she was 14 and he was 16 - Keys was not interested in the “On To The Next One” rapper. Keys and hip-hop artist Swizz Beatz, whose real name is Kasseem Dean, first met through a mutual high school friend.

Alicia Keys met her husband Swizz Beatz when they were teenagers.

Over the years, Keys has spoken about her beautiful blended family, so here’s everything you need to know about her husband and children. The talented singer and songwriter is nominated for Song of the Year for “A Beautiful Noise” and will surely have her loving family cheering her on all night long. Eight-time Grammy award winner Alicia Keys is up for yet another accolade at the year’s biggest night in music.

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