Photos of Fantasia and Kendall Taylor over the years

On July 18, 2015, Grammy Award-winning singer Fantasia said “yes” to her boyfriend Kendall Taylor. Shortly after meeting, the two jumped off a broomstick on a yacht in North Carolina. To others, it can have sounded crazy, but for the star, “everything changed when I met him,” she said in 2016 “I just knew [he was the one]. I used to be on the brink of go, and he knelt down and said, ‘Can I pray for you? I just want to cover for you in the future.’ During that point once I was fasting from relationships, I asked God for somebody to hope for me—someone who could cover for me and my children and be the man at home. I knew then.”

The couple just celebrated their wedding anniversary, and in 2021, they welcomed their first child together, daughter Keziah (she has two children, Dallas and Zion, from previous relationships; he has one son, Trey, and the couple has two grandchildren through Trey!) He’s been by her side as she’s performed, traveled, navigated awards season, overcome trials and tribulations, and more. He’s come into her life and develop into her biggest supporter.

“I had to go through that. When I met my husband, I was taking care of everything. I was taking care of the whole family. That was me,” she said in 2019. “He runs his own business. So I wasn’t used to that. I was a talker — quick with words, snarky. But it took a man like him to sit me down and look me in the eye and talk to me the way I should be treated and say, ‘I’m here now. You don’t have to do all this. Hand it over to me and let me take care of it.'”

The pair, who previously had a podcast together on YouTube, have named He has all the time been open about his marriage and faith, how they deal with it, and has given advice to other couples on the way to get through tough times. They did the same of their 2022 book, . As one other anniversary passes, it becomes clear that Fantasia had the right idea about her husband from the start.

“He treats me like a queen. He tells me I’m a queen every single day. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t wake up and hear him say, ‘Good morning, beautiful,'” she said in 2023. “I wasn’t used to it. At first, it was very, very uncomfortable. But he reminded me of who I was. I was broken. It wasn’t until I met my husband and started becoming a woman that I sat down and realized that everything I went through was necessary.”

We love that about her. Celebrate their love by photos from their time together, from pre-marriage to early marriage to now.