It’s been 10 years since Alicia Keys, and her husband Swizz Beatz, tied the knot in a private ceremony and to celebrate the milestone, the love birds shared pictures of themselves and glowing messages of appreciation to each other.
Keys, born Alicia Augello Cook lauded her husband on Instagram, calling him her “dream come true.”
“My love, you are my dream come true!! You always make me smile. You make me laugh and think and grow and dream and reach and stretch and I am in awe of our love! 10 joiiiwwnnntttttttzzzzzzz!!!!!!,” she wrote.
“It’s so fast bc it’s so much fun! And so true and real and genuine! I adore you!!! Here’s to so much more of the greatness we create together!!! Deeply appreciating and loving every moment.”
In his response, Beatz posted beautiful snaps of their marital journey with a sweet caption.
“1 full decade of love & life wow,” he wrote. “Never raised our voice at each other in 10yrs wow. Thank you for everything my love, you’re truly everything my Love .
“I wish us 100 more yes plus inshallah. Happy 10yr anniversary Queen Dean #10yrsDean .”
Timeline of the couple’s relationship
Keys, 39, and Beatz, 41, — whose real name is Kasseem Dean, met when she was 15 and he was 17. Keys told Marie Claire UK in 2013 that she “didn’t really like him that much” and thought he was “too ostentatious”.
“Swizz will have the fastest car, the biggest jewelry, the loudest jacket,” she said. “Everything with him is really over the top. I used to see him and think, ‘He is so annoying.'”
Keys added that after several failed attempts by her management team to get the pair to work together, she eventually found herself in the studio with the rapper — and they hit it off.
Soon enough the pair were romantically linked and in 2009 he proposed. They got married in July 2010 on the French island of Corsica.
Just three months after they were married, the couple welcomed their first child, Egypt. In December 2014, Keys and Beatz welcomed a second son, Genesis Ali Dean.
In addition to his son with Mashonda Tifrere and two with Keys, Beatz has two other children from previous relationships.