As CB reported yesterday, Lauren Hashian and Dwayne Johnson got married in Hawaii. They both looked lovely and I’m sure it was an incredible event that I hope we get some more photos of (like of Jasmine and Tiana* as flower girls). DJ and Lauren have been together for 12 years. A lot of his IG is taken up with him gushing over how amazing she is, including crediting her with balancing his life so he can pursue his uber-successful career. But Lauren is much more than just ‘The Rock’s wife’, she is a music producer/singer who also happens to be a legacy. Lauren’s dad was former drummer for the band Boston, Sib Hashian. That might not mean anything to some of the younger readers, but if your childhood was anywhere close to the 70s, your mouth just fell open.
Hashian is a singer and music producer who caught the bug for the music business at an early age thanks to her dad Sib Hashian, who was the drummer for the band Boston for their first two albums in the mid-’70s.
The drummer tragically died in 2017 while performing on a cruise ship. He was 67. A day before her wedding, Hashian posted an Instagram remembering her dad on what would’ve been his 70th birthday.
“Dad, I miss you everyday, I love you and wish you could be here to see all of this too… But I know you have the penthouse view now. Thank you for still being with us & walking with me in your new way… We ❤️ YOU,” she wrote.
Though she’s said her late dad didn’t want her following in his footsteps, Hashian started taking a life in music seriously after winning a talent competition while attending Emerson College in her native Boston.
Since then, the singer and songwriter has appeared on shows like RU the Girl? in 2005, where she competed for a chance to perform with TLC, and has released a few singles.
“I haven’t put out that much yet—I only have two songs that have been professionally released—[but] I would say there’s an R&B undertone to everything, and it goes from pop to hip-hop to trap,” she told Coveteur of her music in late 2018. “Right now we’re working on a cool ’90s throwback project. Myself and some of my colleagues are going to put out three or four tracks before the end of the year if we can finish them up, and one person who will be on that with me is Naz Tokio.”
I’m trying hard not to go into a Sib Hashian/Boston memorial as I write this with More Than a Feeling blasting in my headphones. I did know Lauren was Sib’s daughter and I knew she was pursuing a music career but until this writing, I hadn’t heard her stuff. You can listen to her two songs here and here. Her voice is nice enough. The songs aren’t bad either, but they aren’t jumping out at me. I’m impressed she’s taking her time with her music and not leveraging all her connections to get something out right away. Speaking of connections, I wonder if she’s going to get the ol’ ball-and-chain to duet with her on her upcoming work? I really like Lauren. I think she’s a great mom and I have no doubt she’s the anchor in the Hashian-Johnson household. I also like DJ’s ex-wife, Dany Garcia, and how well she’s maintained a positive relationship with him and his new family. If we want to talk pickers, DJ obvious has a good one.
*How am I just now making the connection that Dwayne and Lauren’s girls are named after Disney princesses?
Photo credit: Instagram and WENN Photos
Cool story!
They make a gorgeous couple.
What’s great about The Rock is that he’s actually said that he’s fallen in love twice (with the women he’s married), and he and his ex wife have worked things out sans drama and fuss.
I love Boston so I was shocked when this came out yesterday! Pretty awesome.
They do make a cute couple. But did everyone forget how they got together? Their relationship started off as an affair. She was 22, he was 35 and still very much married. There was drama in the beginning, glad all parties worked out in the end but this isn’t exactly a relationship I would glorify. Here’s another neat fact about Lauren though – she’s also a bodybuilder! I love that.
I’m going to catch flak for this but there’s something about Dwayne Johnson that I don’t trust. He seems too perfect and there’s a vibe I get from his charisma that doesn’t feel right. I have two former brother-in-laws that initially presented themselves in a similar fashion when it came to positivity and enthusiasm. Everybody loved them. I, however always felt uneasy around them because it all felt like an act. Their relationship with my sisters seemed great on the outside. However, both relationships eventually ended in divorce.
Everyone was taken aback. When asked what went wrong, both of my sisters revealed these men were very controlling and manipulative behind clothes doors. One sister admitted she was actually afraid of her husband during the marriage. I sincerely hope that I’m wrong but Dwayne Johnson reminds me of my BILs during those initial stages of meeting them. Everything about his public persona comes off as manufactured to me. As I wrote, he seems too perfect. I also don’t trust anyone who shares so much on social media. Celebrities are all about constructing the best images to further their careers.
I was also a wrestling fan when I was younger, when Dwayne first made waves as The Rock. I received his autobiography for Christmas one year and though it’s been ages since I read it, I remember the man had HUGE anger issues when he was younger. He relayed one story in the book about choking a woman at a family reunion. I hope he’s truly is a much different person now.
There’s also the fact that his wife was only 22 and he was in his mid 30s when they met. That makes me uneasy as well. He was already a big deal by that time and as a 33 year old myself, I can’t imagine dating someone in their early 20s and I’m not even a world-famous celebrity.
Like I said, I hope I’m wrong.
I love the Rock, but there are reports that he has cheated on her many times over and she is well aware of it. Just like most famous and powerful men, there is an acceptance for being unfaithful.
I’m always wary of assuming things without having proof, but I agree with everything you said. I get a very similar impression of him.
His whole persona seems to have been developed/manufactured to get everyone to think he’s a great person, and he laps it up. I mean, he could be? But him dating a 22 year old is not great and clashes so much with the idea of him being decent. At that age she would have been so much easier to control, especially with the power dynamics of him being more famous and her more than likely being financially dependent on him.
Also, she’s been with him for almost fifteen years. Why has she only released two songs in that time? Perhaps she doesn’t like the limelight? But she competed on a tv show in 2005 to get a chance to play with TLC. So….
I’m just saying, with her industry connections to both her father and Dwayne, she could have done way more in the last decade and a half. Perhaps that is the way he wanted it? For her life to revolve around his? That’s often the way with powerful men unfortunately.
Thanks for the link to the obituary. Sib Hashian’s afro in those photos is glorious!
yay for Armenians that don’t make me embarrassed to say *I’m* Armenian! (ahem, koven)