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updated 5:35 p.m. ET Jan. 5, 2006

NEW YORK - Scott Stapp, former lead singer of Creed, is engaged.

Stapp and Jaclyn Nesheiwat, Miss New York USA 2004, will be married Feb. 10 in Florida, they announced this week. They met last January at a gala for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in New York.

The couple became engaged late last year, the singer’s publicist, Dvora Vener Englefield, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

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Stapp, 32, founded the rock band Creed and won a Grammy Award in 2000 for the song “With Arms Wide Open.” He struck out on his own last year with the solo album, “The Great Divide.”

Nesheiwat is the director of public affairs for the Scott Stapp Foundation, which promotes healthy parent-child relationships.