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Jordin Sparks and husband Dana Isaiah welcome baby boy

Jordin Sparks Is Married With A Baby On The Way
By Michelle Ewing, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
May 6, 2018

Singer Jordin Sparks has become a mom.

Explore>> Jordin Sparks announces she's married, pregnant

According to People magazine, Sparks, 28, and her husband, Dana Isaiah, 25, welcomed a son at 9:04 p.m. Wednesday in Los Angeles. The baby boy, named Dana Isaiah Thomas Jr., was 21 1/2 inches long and weighed 8 pounds, 4.5 ounces, the magazine reported.

>> See her Instagram post here

The "American Idol" winner described giving birth as "miraculously beautiful," People reported.

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"He was and is everything we imagined," said Sparks, who plans to call her son DJ.

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