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Sophie B. Hawkins has given birth to a baby girl.

The veteran singer, 50, welcomed her daughter Esther Ballantine on Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Campus in New York. She also has a son, Dashiell, who is 6.

Coincidentally, Hawkins was born at the same hospital in 1964, a fact that she Tweeted as she was being taken in for delivery.

Hawkins released her debut album, Tongues and Tails, in 1992 which included the top ten hit Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover (1992 / #5). She followed two years later with Whaler which featured As I Lay Me Down (1995 / #6). Overall, Hawkins has released five studio albums with the last being 2012's The Crossing