Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz celebrated their 11th anniversary on Saturday.
Keys, 40, posted a reflective post on her Instagram of a sepia-toned throwback picture of herself covered in paint with the caption that read: “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!!”
“Here’s to many many many many more!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳,” she added.
The married couple met when they were teens. But Keys apparently wasn’t interested in Beatz when a mutual high school friend first brought them together.
“We ended up in the same circles at various awards shows and industry events,” Keys wrote in her autobiographical book More Myself. “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.”
Years later, they linked up again to work on a music project 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.
They eventually fell in love, and Swizz, 42, proposed to her in 2010, and they wed the same year in Corsica.
The couple now shares two children together: sons Egypt, 10, and Genesis, 6, PEOPLE reported.
“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.”
