Jennifer
Lopez is also the name of an on-air forecaster at the
Weather Channel.
Jennifer Lynn López (aka J.
Lo, born July 24, 1970) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American
actress, singer, designer, dancer, and fashion icon.
She was born and raised in the Castle Hill section
of Bronx, New York City, New York. Lopez speaks English
and Spanish and has two sisters, Leslie (a music teacher)
and Lynda, a well known television news anchor.
Nicknames
J.Lo or Jaylo
Jen
Jenny
Jenny Lo
La Lopez (The Lopez)
Mrs. Lopez
Before being famous
She 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.
T.V. 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".
Lastly, she has starred in "Second Chances"
and "Hotel Malibu".
Movies
She started her acting career early
in the 1990s with movies like Mi Familia, Money Train,
and U Turn, but her breakthrough was the part of Selena
Quintanilla in the movie Selena. She followed this
with a well-received performance in Out Of Sight with
George Clooney. She has also appeared in Anaconda,
The Cell, Angel Eyes, The Wedding Planner, Enough,
Maid in Manhattan, Gigli, Jersey Girl, and Shall We
Dance, "Monster-In-Law & has appeared in
several other movies and television shows.
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".
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.
Lopez's fourth studio album "Rebirth"
is scheuduled for released on March 1, 2005.
Albums
1999 "On the 6" #8 US, US
sales: 3,000,000
2001 "J. Lo" #1 US, #2 UK, US sales: 4,000,000
2002 "J to tha L-O! The Remixes" #1 US,
#4 UK, US sales: 1,500,000
2002 "This is Me... Then" #2 US, #13 UK,
US sales: 2,500,000
2005 "Rebirth"
Hit singles
1999 "If You Had My Love"
#1 US, #4 UK
1999 "Waiting for Tonight" #8 US, #5 UK
2000 "Feelin' So Good" #52 US, #15 UK
2001 "Love Don't Cost a Thing" #3 US, #1
UK
2001 "Play" #10 US, #3 UK
2001 "Ain't It Funny" #3 UK
2001 "I'm Real" #1 US, #4 UK
2002 "Ain't It Funny" (remix) #1 US, #4
UK
2002 "I'm Gonna Be Alright" #10 US, #3 UK
2002 "Jenny from the Block" #3 US, #3 UK
2002 "All I Have" (feat. LL Cool J) #1 US,
#2 UK (2003 release in the UK)
2003 "I'm Glad" #32 US, #11 UK
2004 "Baby I Love You" #72 US, #3 UK
2005 "Get Right" #13 (5 weeks in) US, #1
UK
DVDs
1999 "Feelin' So Good"
2001 "Let's Get Loud", US sales: 500,000
2003 "The Reel Me", US sales: 1,500,000
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.
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.
Lopez also launched a new clothing
line called Sweetface which hit stores in November
2003, as well as a new perfume called Still, which
was introduced in October 2003.
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 $500 million worldwide.
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.
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.
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