Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lopez (aka J. Lo, born July 24, 1970) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, designer, dancer, and fashion icon.
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Nicknames
- Jenny
- Jenny Lo
- La Guitarra (The Guitar) (because of her body shape)
- J.Lo
- Jennifer
- La Lopez (The Lopez)
- Ms. Lopez
T.V. shows
She started as a "fly girl" (dancer) on the television comedy program In Living Color.
Movies
Lopez had her first breakthrough success when she landed the part of Selena in the movies Selena. She followed this with a well-received performance in Out Of Sight with George Clooney. She has also appeared in The Cell, The Wedding Planner, Enough, Maid in Manhattan, Gigli, and appeared in several other movies and television shows. She is noted as one of the first hispanic actresses to achieve mainstream success in major Hollywood roles.
Music
Her music, mainly pop, includes the albums "J.Lo" and "On The 6", a reference to the train she used to take growing up in the Bronx.
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 album's also included the smaller hit singles, "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 its release in early 2001, the album quickly rose to the top of the charts; as did 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 relative flops in their original forms. However, Lopez got Murda Inc to drastically remix both songs, completely changing the lyrics and melodies and adding raps from Ja Rule to both songs. 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 her most recent album, "This Is Me... Then", which has produced three hugely popular singles: "Jenny From The Block," 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".
She released a new single in 2003: "The One" featuring Joe Budden. The video is expected to be released in August 2003.
Claims at history making
- J.Lo was the first Latina to get paid over a million of dollars for a project.
- J.Lo is (in 2003) the highest paid Latina actress in Hollywood.
- J.Lo's first album "On The 6" was 7 times platinum.
- J.Lo's first single "If You Had My Love" was #1 for more than 9 weeks.
- J.Lo is the first actress and singer to have a movie ("The Wedding Planner") and an album ("J.Lo") at #1 in the same week.
- J.Lo's second album "J.Lo" was 5 times platinum.
- J.Lo'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.
- J.Lo's perfume "GLOW" made history in 2001, by being the 1# perfume in more than 9 countries in more than 4 months.
- J.Lo 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.
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 scarves line.
In other news she would be launching a new clothing line called "Sweetface" which hits stores in October 2003. Also a new perfume called "Still" is planned to be introduced in October 2003.
She has done a photoshoot to represent the Louis Vuitton winter campaign, in which the pictures would be seen all over the world through TV commercials, billboards, ads, newspapers, magazines and more. The campaign will start August 2003.
Other merchandise includes clothing for men and a cologne line for men due for release in winter 2004/05.
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.
Upcoming movies
- Shall We Dance (December 25, 2003);
- Jersey Girl (March 19, 2004);
- An Unfinished Life (Holidays 2004);
- Tick Tock (Spring 2005);
- Monster In Law (2005);
Relationships
Lopez has been involved into two short lived marriages, the first one ended by divorce to Ojani Onoa in 1998, lasting 1 year and 9 months. Later in 1999 she was reported going out with the famous singer and designer P. Diddy, later breaking up in 2000 while involved in a shooting scandal in a New York City nightclub. The second marriage was to her former backup dancer and the winner of ABC's March 2003 reality show, I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, Cris Judd. Later rumors applied that she was involved with actor Ralph Fiennes, and also actor Matthew McConaughey, both were not confirmed. Also another rumor that was circulating was, that she was secretly dating rapper Ja Rule, no confirmation was given. Later there was another rumor she was involved with the rapper LL Cool J, no confirmation was given, and now she is currently engaged to Ben Affleck. The couple is known as "Jen and Ben" or "Bennifer".
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Jennifer Lopez" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lopez September 19, 2003
