R&B diva Mariah Carey, 38, stunned fans when she married 27-year-old Californian actor Nick Cannon in a secret ceremony at her home in the Bahamas on April 30, 2008. The pair had been dating for a mere two months.
The most well-kept secret marriage in music was safe until Bryan Michael Cox confirmed to Singersroom that Monica and her longtime boyfriend, Rocko, had tied the knot.
R&B superstar Usher and Tameka Foster exchanged vows in the office of his Atlanta lawyer on August 3, 2008, instead of doing the low-key matrimony they had planned for at the New York home of music mogul L.A. Reid.
Singer Nelly Furtado revealed to ET Canada that she married sound engineer Demacio Castellon in July of 2008.
R&B/Hip Hop producer Timbaland married his publicist girlfriend Monique Idlett – in their sweats! – in Virginia by a family pastor in summer 2008. Later the two reportedy exchanged vows again in a formal ceremony in Aruba.