While rumours of Nick Jonas honeymooning in Oman with his newly wedded wife Priyanka Chopra kept social media followers abuzz here, elsewhere around the world, the reams of newsprint and television time focusing on their celebrity wedding continued to play on the imagination of fans and celeb watchers. For, everyone loves to see a couple in love, and if they are celebrities who have established their credentials in their chosen fields and have earned mammoth fan-following by the sheer dint of their talent and public persona, there is bound to be a hunger to soak in all the reports. And the newlyweds gave the world a whole lot of adorable, dripping-with-romance pictures.
Although naysayers had sharpened their claws to point out all the differences, largely the age gap, to portend that the wedding would fail, the couple remained unfrazzled, as they revelled in their wedding celebrations; a picture of love and assurance in their mien. Such attention is inevitable when two international celebrities tie the knot; the will-they, won’t-they questions are bound to surface. But for fans that have been wowed by Nick Jonas’ music and his irrepressible charm, his wedding to Indian diva Priyanka Chopra, who has been named by Forbes List of 100 Most Powerful Women of 2018, is nothing short of a fairytale, with a happily-ever-after ending.
26-year old Nicholas Jerry Jonas has lived a celebrity life that is no less of a fairy tale since his boyhood days. The adulation and scrutiny of his moves is not new to him. But what is definitely new to all who have been following the couple is the picture of maturity he has been projecting, despite all the talk about the age gap between them. He personifies his popular quote – ‘Stop hoping, start believing’.
His belief in himself helped him soar in his professional life, savouring success very early in life. He had just entered his teens when he and his brothers, Joe and Kevin, rocked the music industry with their band – Jonas Brothers. In 2006 the band released their debut album ‘It’s About Time’ and followed that with a self-titled album, which became their breakthrough record. Thereafter the band found a strong positioning on the Disney Channel and they were featured in the television musical film ‘Camp Rock’. Their string of successes continued and their third album’s lead single ‘Burnin’ Up’ hit the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Jonas Brothers disbanded after the fourth album and Nick went solo.
In 2016, he released his sophomore solo album ‘Last Year Was Complicated’, which debuted as the number one selling album of the week. That same year he won the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Hal David Starlight Award. In 2017, he acted in the hit ‘Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle’, which was the 5th highest-grossing movie of that year. He went on to win Golden Globe’s ‘Best Original Song’ for ‘Home’, which he co-wrote for the movie ‘Ferdinand’.
As he says, ‘Dreams are reality waiting to happen.’