Jennifer Hudson gives birth to boy

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Updated: 2009-08-12 09:10

Singer Jennifer Hudson performs on NBC's "Today" show in New York, May 15, 2009.[Agencies]

LOS ANGELES - Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson has given birth to her first child -- a boy named David Daniel Otunga Jr, her publicist said on Tuesday.

Hudson, 27, suffered both triumph and tragedy in the last 12 months winning a Grammy award four months after the murders in her Chicago home town of her mother, brother and nephew.

The Oscar-winning star of "Dreamgirls" has been engaged for almost a year to actor David Otunga.

"The baby is beautiful and perfect," said Hudson's publicist Lisa Kasteler. "His parents are ecstatic."