{"id":217805,"date":"2026-01-03T05:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:28:07","slug":"guitarist-nita-strauss-expecting-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217805\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitarist Nita Strauss Expecting First Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/nita-strauss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nita Strauss<\/a>, who\u2019s expecting her first child with husband Josh Villalta.<\/p>\n<p>The Alice Cooper band member and solo artist shared the happy news on Thursday via Instagram along with a photo of the couple holding up a sonogram image, while revealing that she is having a baby boy.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote, \u201cLooks like 2026 will be the best year yet. We\u2019ve waited so long for this miracle and now the time is finally here! He will come into this world surrounded by so much love! So excited to meet our little man this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Villalta, who plays drums in Strauss\u2019 solo band and also serves as her manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2023\/07\/nita-strauss-engaged-record-release-show-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">proposed to Nita onstage<\/a> during her record release party in Los Angeles in July 2023. The pair were <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/05\/nita-strauss-wedding-alice-cooper-david-draiman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">married in May 2024<\/a> at L.A.\u2019s Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, where Nita and Josh performed onstage alongside wedding guests Alice Cooper and Disturbed\u2019s David Draiman, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Strauss, who made Consequence\u2018s list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/list\/the-100-best-guitarists-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">100 Best Guitarists of All Time<\/a>, toured extensively with Cooper in 2025. She\u2019s been a member of his solo band since 2014, taking a brief break in 2022 to join pop star Demi Lovato\u2019s touring band.<\/p>\n<p>See the photos of Nita Strauss and Josh Villalta sharing the sonogram images below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congratulations are in order for guitarist Nita Strauss, who\u2019s expecting her first child with husband Josh Villalta. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-217805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}