During a performance in Detroit, Jack White proposes to and eventually marries Olivia Jean

White and Jean’s relationship has been kept a secret until yesterday.

Jack White proposed to and married his fiancée, fellow singer-songwriter and local Olivia Jean, during his concert in Detroit yesterday night (April 8).

The historic event occurred at the Masonic Temple Theatre at the close of White’s set, during a performance of The White Stripes’ 2001 song “Hotel Yorba.” According to local broadcaster ABC 7 WXYZ, Jean – whose band also opened for the concert – joined White and his band to play the song before he proposed to her to an outpouring of applause.

White and Jean returned to the stage to begin their encore, which included The Raconteurs’ ‘Steady, As She Goes’ and the Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army,’ surrounded by White’s mother, Jean’s father, and ordained minister (and Third Man Records co-founder) Ben Swan, who formally married the pair.

White’s presentations are said to have a strict no-phone policy, yet one lucky audience member was able to capture the proposal and subsequent marriage on tape.

White and Jean’s relationship had been kept a secret until yesterday; it’s unclear how long they dated before marrying, but they’ve been working together since 2009. That same year, Jean joined with Third Man Records, releasing three albums with the label: two solo albums, 2014’s ‘Bathtub Love Killings’ and 2019’Night Owl,’ as well as her self-titled 2011 debut with The Black Belles.

White is married for the third time. He married Meg White, a White Stripes bandmate, in 1996 (a year before the band was established), and the couple separated in 2000. He later married model and singer Karen Elson in 2005, however the couple separated in 2013 after a break in 2011.

White also performed the US national anthem for the Detroit Tigers’ first game of the new baseball season yesterday, releasing the first of his two new albums, ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ – the second, ‘Entering Heaven Alive,’ is due out in July – and the first of his two new albums, ‘Entering Heaven Alive,’ is due out in July. The North American portion of his current world tour, called ‘The Supply Chain Issue Tour,’ will continue with a second event in Detroit tonight (April 9).

The tour’s UK and European leg kicks off on Monday, June 19, with White and his band performing the first of two gigs at Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo. Tickets for those events can be purchased here, while tickets for the US shows can be purchased here. Chubby & The Gang, Yard Act, SONS, Doctor Victor, Ko Ko Mo, Larkin Poe, Equal Idiots, and Mdou Moctar will accompany White on his UK and European tour.

“I’m not as horrible as I was / But not as good as I can be,” White sings on the final track “Shedding My Velvet,” according to NME’s Mark Beaumont in a three-star review of ‘Fear Of The Dawn.’

White, meantime, disclosed earlier this week that Prince once gave him guitar tips. “He stated to me something along the lines of, ‘No one is going to teach you how to play your guitar, Jack.’ White recalls, “And he talked about the [2008] James Bond song [‘Another Way To Die’] I had just done.” “And he responded, ‘I like it a lot.'”