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Grammy Winner John Batiste Secretly Married Suleika Jaouad

Singer John Batiste and Suleika Jaouad recently spoke about the latter's struggle with cancer and revealed that they got married before her bone marrow transplant, in a secret ceremony.

John Batiste and Suleika Jaouad
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Singer John Batiste, who recently won five Grammys, has revealed that he secretly married his longtime girlfriend Suleika Jaouad. This was before Jaouad바카라s bone marrow transplant.

According to an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Batiste and Jaouad revealed that they did not even have wedding bands at the time and that it was a very small, but beautiful affair.

바카라We had this tiny, beautiful little ceremony. We didn바카라t have wedding bands, we used bread ties,바카라 Jaouad said. She added, that the ceremony was private, and only four people were present. 바카라And it was perfect,바카라 she said. 

Recently, eight days before the Grammys 2022 nominations, Jaouad began her second round of chemotherapy. She said that her second battle with cancer was tougher than the first. Describing it, she is said that it was 바카라far more aggressive than it had been a decade ago.바카라

Talking about how she felt while waiting for Chemo and acknowledging people바카라s wishes for the nomination simultaneously, she said, 바카라We바카라re sitting in this chemo suite together and these phone calls of congratulations are coming and we바카라re having to hold these two realities,바카라 she said.

She underwent her bone marrow transplant when the world was battling Omicron and Batiste was unable to stay with her. However, he would chat with her virtually and would even write her a lullaby. 바카라It felt like he was right there, you know, sleeping by my bedside,바카라 she said, while Batiste added that he wrote the lullabies 바카라to fill the room with this healing properties.바카라

The couple has been together for the last eight years. 바카라Ok this has happened, but this isn바카라t gonna interrupt the plan that we had, this is just a bump in the road바카라 it바카라s an act of defiance. The darkness will try to overtake you, but just turn on the light; focus on the light, hold on to the light,바카라 said Batiste. 

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