By Wonderwall.com Editors
5:12pm PDT, Apr 3, 2022
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Ahead of music's biggest night on April 3 — the 2022 Grammy Awards — Wonderwall.com is introducing you to the other halves of this year's crop of nominees! Let's kick things off with this nominee! Jon Batiste is this year's most nominated artist, with 11 nods across a wide array of categories — classical, R&B, jazz and American roots music — including album of the year for "We Are," record of the year for the song "Freedom" and best contemporary classical composition for his piece "Movement 11.'" The very busy musician and "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" bandleader has been dating bestselling author Suleika Jaouad for 10 years.
Keep reading to meet more of the men and women who are dating or married to 2022 Grammy-nominated performers…
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The other half of successful duo Brothers Osborne, John Osborne — who with his sibling is up for best country duo/group performance for "Younger Me" — has been married to songwriter Lucie Silvas since 2015.
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Miranda Lambert and her husband, former NYPD officer Brendan McLoughlin, are still going strong after tying the knot in January 2019. Miranda, who's competing for best country duo/group performance for "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" with Elle King, gave the Staten Island native an Instagram shout-out for his 30th birthday last October, calling him a "dream boat" and gushing, "I'm so thankful to have you in my life. Cheers to the next 30 years!"
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Last year's big winner Megan Thee Stallion celebrated her one-year anniversary with rapper Pardison "Pardi" Fontaine in October 2021. Pardi's since shot down split rumors. Megan, who's up for best rap performance for "Thot S***," first confirmed the romance in an Instagram Live in February 2021.
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Coldplay's "Higher Power" is up for best pop duo/group performance. Lead singer Chris Martin has been seriously dating actress Dakota Johnson since 2017, and the pair have shared a $12.5 million Malibu home since 2021. Dakota recently opened up about their super-private relationship: "We've been together for quite a while, and we go out sometimes, but we both work so much that it's nice to be at home and be cozy and private," she told ELLE. "Most of the partying takes place inside my house."
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Kacey Musgraves, who's nominated for best country solo performance for "camera roll," has been Instagram official with Nashville-based writer Cole Schafer since June 2021. Cole, who publishes books under the pen name January Black, also owns his own advertising and copywriting company. Kacey split from country music singer Ruston Kelly in June 2020 after nearly three years of marriage.
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Brandi Carlile, who's up for best pop solo performance and record of the year for "Right On Time," first met Catherine Shepherd in 2009 when the British beauty was working for Paul McCartney coordinating his charity work. They married in 2012 and have two daughters, Evangeline and Elijah.
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Justin Bieber is up for a whopping eight Grammys including album of the year for "Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)" and best R&B performance and record of the year for "Peaches." Justin's been embracing married life with wife Hailey Bieber, whom he wed in September 2018 at a New York City courthouse before holding a second, more traditional ceremony with friends and family in South Carolina a year later.
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The successful singer can have both, it seems! Halsey's smitten with screenwriter Alev Aydin and their son, Ender Ridley Aydin, who was born in July 2021.
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Carrie Underwood has been married to retired NHL player Mike Fisher for 11 years. The Nashville-based pair share sons Isaiah and Jacob. Carrie's up for best roots gospel album for "My Savior" and best country duo/group performance for "If I Didn't Love You" with Jason Aldean.
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Jason Aldean has been married to Brittany Aldean since March 2015. The country star, who's nominated for best country duo/group performance with Carrie Underwood for "If I Didn't Love You," started a relationship with the then-"American Idol" contestant in 2012 when he was married to first wife Jessica Ussery. But six years later, Brittany and Jason have two young children together — son Memphis and daughter Navy — and are still going strong.
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Lady Gaga has been Instagram official with tech entrepreneur Michael Polansky since February 2020. The singer-actress is nominated for six statues for her latest collaboration with Tony Bennett including album of the year for "Love for Sale" and best pop duo/group performance for "I Get a Kick Out of You."
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Maren Morris is married to fellow country music singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, and both are up for a best country duo/group performance Grammy for their hit "Chasing After You." Maren — who's also nominated for best country song for "Better Than We Found It" — wed Ryan in March 2018. The couple welcomed their first child, son Hayes Andrew, two years later.
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Tori Kelly, who's up for best traditional pop vocal album for "A Tori Kelly Christmas," has been married to German-born, California-bred pro basketball player André Murillo since May 2018.
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Ariana Grande's a married woman! She tied the knot with luxury home realtor Dalton Gomez in May 2021 before an intimate group of fewer than 20 guests at her property in Montecito, California. Dalton will be cheering Ari on in the best pop vocal album category for "Positions."
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Paul McCartney has been happily married to New Jersey-born Nancy Shevell since they tied the knot in 2011 at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London, the same spot where in 1969 he wed first wife Linda Eastman (who died of breast cancer in 1998). The former Beatle is up for best rock song for "Find My Way."
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Taylor Swift, who's up for album of the year for "evermore," has been quietly dating British actor Joe Alwyn since 2016. While the pair have kept their romance very private, Taylor opened up to Paul McCartney in a November 2020 Rolling Stone interview. "I think that in knowing him and being in the relationship I am in now, I have definitely made decisions that have made my life feel more like a real life," she said of Joe, "and less like just a storyline to be commented on in tabloids."
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Tony Bennett won his first Grammy in 1963, for his signature ballad, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." This year, at 95, he became the oldest artist ever nominated in a "general field" category. He's up for five awards with Lady Gaga including album of the year for "Love for Sale" and record of the year for "I Get a Kick Out of You." They're also nominated for pop duo/group performance, traditional pop vocal album and music video. The crooner, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, has been married to philanthropist Susan Crow since 2007.
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Elle King, who's up for best country duo/group performance for "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" with Miranda Lambert, welcomed her first child, Lucky Levi Tooker, with her fiancé, tattoo artist Dan Tooker, in September 2021.
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Luke Combs' wife, Nicole Hocking — who works in the music industry as a recruiting coordinator for BMI — is the inspiration for many of the country star's songs including "Forever After All," for which Luke is nominated for best country solo performance. The pair met at a music festival in Florida in 2016, got engaged two years later and tied the knot — also in Florida — in August 2020, prompting Luke to gush on Instagram that it was "the best day of my life. I got to marry my best friend." In January 2022, they announced that they're expecting their first child, a son, this spring.
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JAY-Z's significant other needs no introduction! The rapper has three kids with wife Beyonce, who will no doubt be cheering him on as he vies for best rap song — he's nominated for "Bath Salts" with DMX and "Jail" with Kanye West.
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Mickey Guyton's husband, Hawaii-born lawyer Grant Savoy, will be cheering her on as she competes for the best country solo performance Grammy for "Remember Her Name." The couple welcomed their first child, son Grayson, in February 2021.
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They clean up nicely! Kings of Leon — made up of brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew Followill — are vying for best rock song for "The Bandit." All four Tennessee rockers are happily off the market. Keep reading for details on all four happy unions and growing families…
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Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill married model and former Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Aldridge in 2011. Their daughter Dixie was born in 2012 and son Winston arrived in 2019.
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Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill married model Martha Patterson in 2012. They welcomed their first child, daughter Adeline James, in January 2020.
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Kings of Leon rocker Nathan Followill wed singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin in 2009. They welcomed daughter Violet in 2012 and son Oliver in 2018.
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Kings of Leon guitarist Matthew Followill married English musician Johanna Bennett in 2009. In July 2021, Matthew announced he'd be taking some time off the band's "When You See Yourself" tour to spend time at home after the birth of their third child, daughter Imogen, who joins big brothers Knox, born in 2011, and Adrian, born in 2013.
