Congratulations are in order for Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz. Keys gave birth to the couple's first child, a little boy they have named Egypt Dean.

The proud new father expressed his excitement about the arrival on his Twitter page: "I'm so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life wowwwwww," he wrote. Keys gave birth at New York's St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital late Thursday night. Keys married the 32-year-old rap producer, real name Kaseem Dean, July 31, shortly after announcing that they were expecting.

The nuptials were held in Corsica in front of close friends including Queen Latifah and U2 rocker Bono, and presided over by Deepak Chopra. The couple met when they collaborated to write and produce Million Dollar Baby for Whitney Houston's seventh studio album, I Look To You. When they met Beatz was still married to his first wife, Mashonda. They went public as a couple in May 2009, and Beatz has emphatically denied that their relationship had anything to do with the break-up of his marriage. He recently spoke of his love for 29-year-old Keys, saying that he felt "blessed" to be married to her. "It's a blessing, I look at my relationship with my wife as a union that's just connected... spiritually. I'm a better man. I think that having love in your life has that effect, because then you spread love. You can't enjoy love without spreading it." he told MTV.com. Although Egypt is the first child for the couple, Beatz has three other children from previous relationships, two sons, Prince Nasir Dean, 10, Kasseem Dean Jr, four and a one-year-old daughter.