{"id":347700,"date":"2026-01-02T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347700\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:22:10","slug":"guitar-god-nita-strauss-announces-miracle-pregnancy-as-she-and-husband-look-forward-to-welcoming-their-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347700\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar God Nita Strauss announces ‘miracle’ pregnancy as she and husband look forward to welcoming their first child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alice Cooper<\/a> guitarist Nita Strauss<\/a> has announced she is pregnant with her and husband Josh Villalta’s first child together.<\/p>\n

Strauss, known as The Hurricane, confirmed the news in an Instagram post alongside Villalta, who is also her manager.<\/p>\n

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She describes the pregnancy as a “miracle” and confirms their son will be born in the summer.<\/p>\n

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Strauss, 39, says: “Looks like 2026 will be the best year yet. We’ve waited so long for this miracle and now the time is finally here!<\/p>\n

“He will come into this world surrounded by so much love! So excited to meet our little man this summer.”<\/p>\n

Hurricane Nita has been a member of Alice Cooper’s band since 2014 when she replaced Orianthi. In 2022, she stepped away to join pop star Demi Lovato’s band<\/a> as a touring guitarist before returning to Cooper’s group in 2023.<\/p>\n

Her career highlights also include two solo albums and becoming the first female solo artist to have a No.1 single on rock radio with her 2021 track Dead Inside.<\/p>\n

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She also toured with Jermaine \u2018Brother Of Michael\u2019 Jackson and performed as part of the band for NFL team the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n

On the success of Dead Inside, Strauss previously told Louder<\/a>: “I\u2019ve had a few achievements in my career where it\u2019s mind-blowing to me that I got there first, because it seemed like something that should have been done a long time ago, like becoming Ibanez guitars\u2019 first female signature artist in 2018. It made me think, \u2018How is it possible that no one has done this yet?\u2019”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss has announced she is pregnant with her and husband Josh Villalta’s first child…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-347700","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}