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Jennifer Lynn L?pez (also known as J. Lo, born July 24,
1969) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, fashion
designer, dancer, and all-around cultural icon.
Early Years
Lopez was born and raised in the Castle Hill section of The Bronx,
New York City, New York. She is also a bilingual speaker of English
and Spanish. Lopez has two sisters, Leslie (a music teacher) and
Lynda, a well known television news anchor at WCBS-TV.
Relation with Cuba : Her first husband Ojani Noe was Cuban.
Jennifer Lynn L?pez (also known as J. Lo, born July 24,
1969) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, fashion
designer, dancer, and all-around cultural icon.
Early Years
Lopez was born and raised in the Castle Hill section of The Bronx,
New York City, New York. She is also a bilingual speaker of English
and Spanish. Lopez has two sisters, Leslie (a music teacher) and
Lynda, a well known television news anchor at WCBS-TV.
Lopez started off as a backup dancer. She later took up acting,
saying that she always knew she wanted to do this, and that her
inspiration came from some of her favorite artists.
Television shows
She started in television as a "fly girl" (dancer) on
the television comedy program In Living Color. She also played a
small role in a short-lived television program South Central. Later,
she starred in Second Chances and Hotel Malibu.
Movies
Lopez started her acting career early in the 1990s with movies
like Mi Familia (1995), Money Train (1995), and U Turn (1997), but
her breakthrough was the part of Selena Quintanilla in the movie
Selena (1997). She followed this with a well-received performance
in Out Of Sight (1998) with George Clooney.
She has also appeared in Anaconda (1997), The Cell (2000), Angel
Eyes (2001), The Wedding Planner (2001), Enough (2002), Maid in
Manhattan (2002), Gigli (2003), Jersey Girl (2004), Shall We Dance
(2004), and Monster-in-Law (2005), among other movies and television
shows.
She is considered especially adept at romantic comedies, with Wedding
Planner and Maid in Manhattan being her two of her more commercially
and critically successful vehicles. Many people consider Lopez to
be stronger and more talented as an actor than as a singer, with
some criticizing her vocal range and her producers' heavy use of
background vocalists. On the other hand, a few of her film performances
have been heavily criticized, most notably in the overall disaster
Gigli, which seemed to have a negative effect on her popularity,
which she has only recently been regaining with back-to-back box
office hits Shall We Dance and Monster-in-Law.
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Upcoming movies
An Unfinished Life (2005)
Bordertown (2005)
American Darlings (2005)
Music
Her music, mainly pop, includes the albums J.Lo and On The 6, a
reference to the subway line she used to take growing up in Soundview.
On The 6 was released in 1999 and featured the massive first single,
"If You Had My Love". It also contained the Spanish language,
Latin-flavored duet "No me ames" with Marc Anthony, which
was an international hit and was not released as a single in the
United States, although the video got moderate airplay on American
VH1 and The Box as a novelty.
In the fall of 1999, the album's second American single, "Waiting
For Tonight" was released. It was not a hit on the same scale
as "If You Had My Love", but was huge nonetheless. The
memorable video capitalized on the millennium craze of the time,
featuring J. Lo at a futuristic dance party in a jungle, while an
enormous clock counted down the seconds to the year 2000. The video
also had a popular dance remix, by popular club remixer, Hex Hector.
To date, the remix video still gets occasional airplay on MTV2,
during dance blocks.
The albums also included the other hit singles like, "Feelin'
So Good", a hip hop track which contained guest raps by Big
Pun and Fat Joe and the Latin-dance-flavored track, "Let's
Get Loud" (which became a staple DJ starter song at various
kinds of affairs).
Towards the end of 2000, Lopez released "Love Don't Cost A
Thing", her first single from her second album, J. Lo. Upon
the album's release in early 2001, it quickly rose to the top of
the charts; as had the single, which became her biggest hit since
"If You Had My Love". The second single, "Play",
which was written by rising teen star, Christina Milian, was a huge
dance radio and club hit in early 2001 and was also successful on
pop radio.
The album's next two singles, "I'm Real" and "Ain't
It Funny" were her biggest ever hits both spending many weeks
on top of the Billboard charts. However, to capitalize on this,
Lopez asked Murder Inc. to remix both songs, completely changing
the lyrics and melodies and adding raps from Ja Rule in both songs,
and from Caddillac Tah to "Ain't It Funny (Remix)". The
"I'm Real" and "Ain't It Funny" remixes were
two of the biggest pop and rap hits in late 2001 and early 2002,
respectively, and their more hip hop sound gave J.Lo street credibility
and brought her music to a whole new group of fans.
She continued the successful trend by getting 50 Cent and Nas to
write rhymes for two remixes of her next single, "I'm Gonna
Be Alright". In mid-2002, Lopez released a remix album called
J To The L-O: The Remixes, featuring the already popular rap remixes
of "I'm Real", "I'm Gonna Be Alright", and "Ain't
It Funny", and well as the dance remix of "Waiting For
Tonight". The album also included rarer dance and hip hop remixes
of her past singles, and a new song, a ballad called "Alive,"
which was included in Lopez' movie, Enough.
In the fall of 2002, Lopez released This Is Me... Then, which spawned
three hugely popular singles: "Jenny From The Block,"
(based on the "Watch Out Now" by the Beatnuts which included
raps from Jadakiss and Styles P); "All I Have," one of
2003's most popular songs to date, which was a duet with LL Cool
J; and "I'm Glad". Later she released the fourth single
"Baby I Love You" the musical theme for the movie Gigli.
Last, she released the fifth single "The One", but the
video was based on the remixed version of the song which featured
East Coast Rapper Joe Budden.
On November 18, 2003, she released her fifth album, Reel Me, which
included a DVD having all her music videos from her first video
"If You Had My Love" to her last one "Baby I Love
You." This album also included a bonus track, "Baby I
Love You (Remix)" featuring R. Kelly. In 2004, Lopez had her
duets with Marc Anthony on his albums Amar Sin Mentiras and Valio
La Pena which was "Escapemonos" which was featured in
Latin Pop and Salsa.
Lopez's fourth studio album Rebirth was released on March 1, 2005.
The album has spawned the hit, "Get Right", which was
well received worldwide, debuting at #1 in the UK; peaking at #3
in Australia; and peaking in the top 20 in the USA. The second single,
"Hold You Down", with rapper Fat Joe, has yet to ignite
the charts, only barely making it into the top 75, peaking at #64.
To add to the failure of "Hold You Down", it has recently
been reported that Lopez is in strife with her current album. Only
selling 400,000 copies as far, the album has been considered a flop,
and has not been well received by the general public. As well as
that, only chances of the album being promoted has been dashed,
as the advertising campaign for Rebirth has already exceeded its
limit financially, and is rumoured to have seen Lopez US$125,000
in debt.
But that's not the end of "Rebirth", recently has been
confirmed that J.Lo's new single of her fourth studio album will
be "Whatever You Wanna Do" which brings a more vibe and
hype than "Get Right." This track is a mix of funk, hip
hop and dance. Many are expecting for this new single to bring J.Lo's
fourth album to the top, almost the same method used back in 2001.
Rumours have it that Lopez is still to grace her presence in the
music scene, with two albums supposedly in production. There is
the much hyped Spanish album, a collaboration with husband, Marc
Anthony. As well as that, there is also rumours of a new remix album,
encompassing hits from Lopez's albums: This Is Me...Then and Rebirth.
Fashion
Lopez owns a clothing line called J.Lo By Jennifer Lopez. Her line
is the most successful clothing line of artists on the industry
market. Furthermore, she is planning to launch a jewelry line, hats,
gloves, and a scarves line.
In October, 2003, Lopez introduced a perfume called [Still]. In
November, 2003, she launched a new clothing line called Sweetface,
which caused an outcry from animal activists for her promotion of
exotic furs.
She did a photoshoot to represent the Louis Vuitton winter 2003
campaign, in which the pictures would be seen all over the world
through TV commercials, billboards, ads, newspapers, magazines and
more.
Other merchandise includes clothing for men and a cologne line
for men due for release in winter 2004/05.
She does have a perfume line out right now called Glow, and she
was in question before, because the name came from another patented
perfume.
J.Lo Inc.
Jennifer Lopez owns a production company Nuyorican Productions,
in which she is expected to produce some of her upcoming movies.
Some of the projects are Carmen, Dirty Girls Social Club, and The
Hector Lavoe Project. This company was founded together with her
manager, Benny Medina, against whom she filed a lawsuit because
of alleged fraud in July 2003.
The company produced the commercially successful movies The Cell,
The Wedding Planner, and Maid in Manhattan. These three movies put
together made more than $350 million at the worldwide box office.
Relationships
Lopez has been in two short-lived marriages. The first one, which
was with Ojani Onoa, ended in divorce in 1998 after 21 months, and
the second, in 2001-2002, was with Chris Judd, her former backup
dancer. Between marriages, in 1999-2000, she dated singer and designer
Puff Daddy, breaking up after a shooting incident in a New York
night club. Recently, Lopez has been engaged to Ben Affleck, but
the marriage planned for September 13, 2003 was called off a few
days before the event. In January 2004 the couple split.
News media reported that on June 5, 2004, Lopez married singer
Marc Anthony. However, after more than half a year of matrimony,
it has been rumoured that the Lopez-Anthony marriage may be on the
rocks.
Nicknames
J.Lo or Jaylo
Jen
Jenny
Jenny Lo
La Lopez (The Lopez)
Mrs. Lopez
Jenny from The Block
Claims to fame
Lopez was the first Latina to get paid over a million dollars for
a project.
Lopez was the first Latina actress to star in a leading role in
film since Rita Hayworth retired in the 1970s.
Lopez is (in 2003) the highest paid Latina actress in Hollywood.
Lopez's first album On The 6 went platinum 8 times.
Lopez's first single "If You Had My Love" was #1 for
more than 9 weeks.
Lopez is the first actress and singer to have a movie ("The
Wedding Planner") and an album ("J.Lo") at #1 in
the same week.
Lopez's second album J.Lo went platinum 9 times.
Lopez's third album J To Tha L-O! The Remixes was the first album
of remixes to hit #1, because no other album of remixes had climbed
the chart.
Lopez's perfume Glow made history in 2001, by being the #1 perfume
in more than 9 countries in more than 4 months.
Lopez is the only woman who has been #1, 3 years in a row in the
FHM list of the 100 Sexiest Females in the world.
Lopez made the 2004 Fortune list of the wealthiest entertainers
under the age of 40. Her wealth is estimated at $255 million.
Lopez's butt is often an object of admiration as well as the brunt
of many jokes in popular culture.
Lopez made the highest debut of 2003 on the US charts with All
I Have debuting at #17.
Lopez has sold over 35 million records worldwide.
Discography
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Albums
1999 - On The 6
Billboard Peak: #8
Sales (USA): 3 Million
2001 - J.Lo
Billboard Peak: #1 (1 Week)
Sales (USA): 4 Million
2002 - J to Tha L-O!: The Remixes
Billboard Peak: #1 (2 Weeks)
Sales (USA): 1 Million
2002 - This Is Me... Then
Billboard Peak: #2
Sales (USA): 2 Million
2005 - Rebirth
Billboard Peak: #2
Sales (USA): 1 Million
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Singles
1999 "If You Had My Love" #1 (5 weeks) US, #4 UK
1999 "Waiting for Tonight" #8 US, #5 UK
2000 "Feelin' So Good" #51 US, #7 UK
2001 "Love Don't Cost a Thing" #3 US, #1 UK
2001 "Play" #5 US, #3 UK
2001 "Ain't It Funny" #3 UK
2001 "I'm Real" #1 UK
2001 "I'm Real" (remix) #1 (5 weeks) US, #1 UK
2002 "Ain't It Funny" (remix) #1 (6 weeks) US, #4 UK
2002 "I'm Gonna Be Alright" #10 US, #3 UK
2002 "Jenny from the Block" #3 US, #3 UK
2003 "All I Have" (feat. LL Cool J) #1 (4 weeks) US,
#2 UK
2003 "I'm Glad" #32 US, #6 UK
2004 "Baby I Love You" #7 US, #3 UK
2005 "Get Right" #12 US, #1 UK
2005 "Hold You Down" (feat. Fat Joe) #43 US, #6 UK
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DVDs
1999 "Feelin' So Good"
2001 "Let's Get Loud", US sales: 500,000
2003 "The Reel Me", US sales: 1,500,000
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