Five-time Grammy winner Jon Batiste has revealed that he had privately wed his longtime love and author Suleika Jaouad after she had been diagnosed with leukaemia for a second time.

As per E! News, the couple exchanged their vows in February on the day before her bone marrow transplant. "We`ve been secret married until this moment," the 35-year-old musician shared with a media outlet. "We didn`t have wedding bands. We used bread ties."