American R&B singer, Alicia Keys, marks 11th year anniversary with her husband, Swizz Beats. The 40-year old icon marked her wedding anniversary on Saturday with a post on instagram, celebrating the occasion and reflecting on past events.
In the sepia, vintage-looking throwback post, the 15 time Grammy winner captioned the photo: “Soulmates. Deeper then soulmates. Twin flames. An existential earthquake. My souls mirror”
“All these are good but still not strong enough to describe our precious, precious love!!” she continued. “Happy anniversary my love! Woooooooowwwwwwww it’s just getting better!! 👑👑👑 I celebrate, honor and deeply respect us!!”
The lovebirds met when Keys was 14 and Swizz was 16 through a high school friend, however Alicia had no interest in him for a long time. In Alicia’s authobiography, More Myself she explained that Swizz and her always “ended up in the same circles at various awards shows and industry events,” she continued, “He’d usually pull up in some fancy car, rolling deep with his Bronx crew and shining with diamonds. I wanted nothing to do with that scene or with Swizz.”
Things took a different turn when the two began to work on music projects together. “The more we talked the more I noticed how his mind worked. Beyond the baggy jeans and arm tats there was depth. He was so aware of what was happening around the world,” she said.
Swizz Beatz later proposed in 2010, and the pair married later that year in Corsica. Alicia and Swizz now share two sons; Egypt, 10, and Genesis, 6.
Alicia on quarantine with Swizz
In an interview with People, Alicia opened up about quarantine with her husband and children, highlighting some of the lessons she learned from the experience.
So much of our life is spent traveling. Obviously, with [the pandemic], we’re literally seeing each other every day,” the 15-time Grammy winner said in April. “We looked at each other the other day and were like ‘So this is what it’s really like to be married.’ It was really funny.”
So much of our life is spent traveling. Obviously, with [the pandemic], we’re literally seeing each other every day,” the 15-time Grammy winner said in April. “We looked at each other the other day and were like ‘So this is what it’s really like to be married.’ It was really funny.”
“I think one of the things we’re really good at is giving each other the space that we need. That’s not a hard thing for us. And even just being intuitive about what each other needs is also something that comes really fluid for us,” Keys said. “We’ll always check in and we’re always making sure we’re good.”
