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Pia Toscano engaged to Jimmy R.O. Smith

The couple reportedly met on Jennifer Lopez's tour last year.

By Annie Martin
Pia Toscano performs the national anthem at the NASCAR Spring Cup Ford 400 on November 20, 2011. The singer got engaged to Jimmy R.O. Smith in late 2015. File Photo by Michael Bush/UPI
Pia Toscano performs the national anthem at the NASCAR Spring Cup Ford 400 on November 20, 2011. The singer got engaged to Jimmy R.O. Smith in late 2015. File Photo by Michael Bush/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Pia Toscano and boyfriend Jimmy R.O. Smith are engaged.

Sources confirmed the news to Us Weekly after word of the 27-year-old singer's engagement broke Tuesday. Smith reportedly proposed in late 2015, and the couple celebrated their engagement in Las Vegas last week.

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"Thank you #Koi #PlanetHollywood for hosting our engagement party. Ill kick off to a great residency -- future #MrandMrsSmith @PiaToscano," Smith wrote Jan. 19. The groom-to-be previously raised a toast with Toscano "to topping every year we've all ever lived."

Insiders told People the couple met on Jennifer Lopez's tour last year while Toscano was a backup singer and Smith a backup dancer. Toscano initially met Lopez on American Idol Season 10, the 46-year-old star's first season as a judge.

Pia Toscano showed off her engagement ring from Jimmy R.O. Smith on Jan. 9. Photo by Pia Toscano/Instagram

Toscano competed on American Idol Season 10 in 2011, but finished ninth despite being considered a front-runner. She released her debut single, "This Time," following her elimination, and released "I Don't Believe It" with Jared Lee as 7East in 2014.

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Smith appeared in the movies Dreamgirls, Stomp the Yard and Burlesque, and is a backup dancer on Lopez's Las Vegas residency show, All I Have, at The Axis at Planet Hollywood. The show, which kicked off Jan. 20, will run through June.

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