Legendary singer and Grammy winner Patti La Belle has a new MAN IN HER LIFE.Patti is reportedly dating her 41-year-old drummer Eric Seats and has been for the past year and a half.

“She tried to keep it quiet, but everyone around her has figured things out now.
She’s completely smitten with him,” a source told London’s Daily Mail tabloid.
Blige, Timbaland and Missy Elliott, in addition to producing songs for Destiny’s Child and Aaliyah. Patti’s 42-year-old son Zuri Edwards doesn’t like the idea of his mother dating a man a year younger than he is.
The UK paper says that Zuri wants his mom to DROP THAT DUDE.
The next moment you read on the internet, via numerous outlets, that Patti La Belle, in fact, neglected to inform you — for It’s like — on the one hand I feel happy for my friend, Patti La Belle.
One moment you assume you have a close enough relationship with music legend Patti La Belle that Patti La Belle might tell you personally if she’s been dating her 41-year-old drummer Eric Seats for an entire year and a half.
She’s completely smitten with him and they spend so much time together,” a source told the The sparks started to fly after La Belle had just ended a rocky relationship, and Seats caught her eye.
“It wasn’t long before he was helping her heal her broken heart,” the source claimed.
God is working on me, He's working through me, and He's putting changes all over me - positive. "Staying a person that people can say they encountered and she was very, very giving. I never want to be thought of as a Hollywood person, you know the people who don't have time for the people who made them." The same motivation that had Patricia Louis Holt blossom from a choir member to lead vocalist for Patti La Belle & The Bluebelles to a solo artist is the same energy that keeps her fire burning at six-two years young. With a voice or without, I've got to get on that stage." And the world is thankful that Ms.
Seats has served as her drummer for the last several years, but things only turned romantic for the pair more recently. “She tried to keep it quiet, but everyone around her has figured things out now.
She hasn’t seemed this happy in years,” the source added.