Jon Batiste & Longtime Partner Suleika Jaouad Secretly Got Married in February!

Surprise – Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad are married!

During an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning, Suleika – the author of the bestselling cancer memoir Between Two Kingdoms – revealed that she and the 35-year-old Grammy-winning entertainer secretly tied the knot back in February.

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In her interview, Suleika, 33, said that she and Jon decided to get married after she was diagnosed with leukemia for the second time.

“We got married the day before I was admitted to the hospital to undergo my bone marrow transplant,” Suleika shared. “We have known that we wanted to get married, I think, from the first week that we started dating.”

“That’s when Jon first brought up the topic of marriage to me. So, we’ve had eight years,” Suleika joked. “This is not, you know, a hasty decision!”

Despite the couple getting married before her bone marrow transplant surgery, Suleika explained that her cancer diagnosis wasn’t a factor in Jon‘s decision to ask her to marry him.

“He said to me, ‘I just want to be very clear, I’m not proposing to you because of this diagnosis. It’s taken me a year to design your ring. So, just know this timing has nothing to do with it. But what I do want you to know is that this diagnosis doesn’t change anything. It just makes it all the clearer to me that I want to commit to this and for us to be together,’” Suleika recalled. “But once we realized we had this tiny window before the bone marrow transplant, we decided to go for it.”

The couple were able to get their marriage license quickly and had a “tiny” and “perfect” wedding, and “used bread ties” instead of formal wedding rings.

“And I’ll tell you, we walked into that bone marrow transplant unit on cloud nine,” Suleika said. “We were so happy, so brimming with love and positivity from this beautiful evening that we’d had. And I really believe that that carried us through.”

If you missed it, Jon Batiste had a very big night at the 2022 Grammys!