Newman said that while he was battling mental health issues, he doesn’t know what would have happened if he didn’t have his wife.
By Folayemi Oladimeji
John Newman has revealed he has become a first-time father.
John William Peter Newman (born 16 June 1990) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
The star, 32, who married his wife Nana in 2018, shared the first picture of the newborn, in black and white, simply writing: ‘A star is born.’
He has not revealed the baby’s name or gender.
It’s happy news for Newman and his wife after he famously battled his own medical health woes.
Newman proposed to Nana a year after he revealed a tumour which he had removed in 2012 had returned. But thankfully he has since been given the all-clear but has to have monthly check-ups.
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Newman is perhaps most famous for his song with Rudimental called Feel the Love.
However, he took a break from music but returned recently with a new single called Holy Love.
He told NME at the start of the year: ‘When you’re touring, no matter if a single’s not doing that well or there’s c**p going on at home or you don’t like yourself as a person, it’s not something you actually know.
‘When that opportunity to run and hide was taken away from me, [in lockdown,] I realised that I was miserable and so unhappy with how my career was going.
‘I realised I was just running at a thousand miles an hour to try to cover that up. Taking the free champagne and getting pictures on the red carpet and thinking that was success when really I’d lost all vision of what success was, which is the pure love and emotion of something that you’ve created doing well.’
He praised his wife for taking care of him.
John Newman said that while he was battling mental health issues, he doesn’t know what would have happened if he didn’t have her.