On January 26, Alicia Keys will take the stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to host the Grammy Awards for the second time. Keys has won 15 Grammy Awards, so it's safe to say she knows her way around the biggest night in music. And while it goes without saying that all of us will be cheering for the show she's hosting ("Can we get Michelle Obama out again?" (opens in new tab)), she has the biggest supporter in the audience: Keys' husband, Grammy-winning artist Kasim Deen, aka Swizz Beatz.

The couple, who have been together for more than a decade, have a relationship to keep on the books. Here's everything you need to know about one of the music industry's most popular couples: Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz.

If you think this is a love at first sight kind of story, you're wrong. The Grammy-winning artist was introduced to the Beats by a mutual friend who attended the Beats' high school. Keys was 16 and Beats was 17.

"To be honest, I didn't like him that much," she told Marie Claire UK (opens in new tab) in 2013. 'I thought he was too ostentatious. The Beats have the fastest cars, the biggest jewelry, the flashiest jackets. Beats has the fastest car, the biggest jewels, the flashiest jacket. I used to look at him and think, 'He's so annoying'"

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Keys' first impressions clearly changed when the private couple began dating sometime in 2008. In Beats' 2009 remix of Drake's "Best I Ever Had" (open in new tab), with the lyric "She threw me a party at the Guggenheim," a reference to a 2008 birthday party Keys threw at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City The relationship was confirmed for the first time. What's next? Rings. Baby "she really loves me.

On the 2013 Wendy Williams Show, Keys opened up about when she began falling in love with the award-winning producer. She said, "He's really, really intelligent and knows a lot of interesting things."

She later added. 'He knew everything I didn't know. He loved to live life, and he taught me how to live beautifully."

She added: "He was a great friend.

Every relationship has its own drama, and Keys and Beets had plenty of that when they first started dating. At the time they were rumored to have started dating, Beats was still married to artist Mashonda Tifler, and they had a child together, Kasim "KJ" Dean.

Mashonda discussed the drama on Twitter in 2009 in a now-deleted tweet (open in new tab), saying, "Contrary to what she may have heard, I am still married to my husband, living with him, and just had a child. I made it very clear. It has been two years now and I still have not received a response. All I receive are selfish and disturbing attitudes towards me and my son."

She then continued in an open letter to the "Girl on Fire" vocalist: "I am not a fan of the role you played in my marriage. The role you played and how you contributed to the end of my marriage. You also know that I asked you to step back and let me handle the family issues. Issues that you helped create."

Keys and Beets never mentioned Mashonda's writing, but three years later Keys told Jet (open in new tab).

All is well now, and the three and their children went on a beach vacation to St. Barts (open in new tab) in 2014.

They married in August 2010 in Corsica, France, with Deepak Chopra officiating the ceremony. Celebrity guests included Bono and Queen Latifah.

At the time of the wedding, Keys was pregnant with the couple's first child (no wonder she was glowing (opens in new tab)). Their son Egypt Daoud Dean was born on October 14, 2010, and their second child, Genesis Ali Dean, on December 27, 2014.

In addition to their two children, the couple also has Beats' children, Kasim "KJ" Dean with his ex-wife, Mashonda Tifrere, 18-year-old son Prince Nasir Dean with Nicole Levy, and daughter Nicole with Zanna Andrianova, in their "blended family." They welcome.

In 2016, Keys released the song "Blended Family." (opens in new tab) On the Ellen DeGeneres show (opens in new tab), she said of the song's meaning, "I feel like 'family' is such a beautiful and diverse unit, and as we've all experienced, families come in all different sizes and shapes and versions."

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