Jennifer Lynn
Lopez born on July 24, 1970 in the Soundview section of Bronx, New York City, New
York is known for her such professions, as Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, designer, dancer,
and fashion icon. She is born to David Lopez who is a computer specialist at Guardian Insurance in NYC and Guadalupe who used
to teach kindergarten in Westchester County, New
York. J. Lo, that's how people call her, is the middle of three daughters. Her elder sister, Leslie
is a housewife and opera singer, and her younger sister, Lynda is a DJ on New York's
WKTU, a VH1 VJ. and a morning news show correspondent on New York's
Channel 11.
Before attending a formal education institute, the 5-year-old Jen took singing and dancing lessons and
spent her following eight years at an all-girls catholic high school named Holy Family, located in the Bronx.
After that she studied at Preston High School for four years long, where she was popular as an amazing athlete actively participated
in track, field and tennis and that her friends there called her "La Guitarra" concerning her guitar curved body. Right after
she graduated from high school that was at her 18-year age J.Lo moved out from her parent's home and worked at a law firm
while took dancing jobs at night. J.Lo breakthrough came in 1990 when she was offered a job as a fly girl on Fox's hit comedy
"In Living Color." After two years passed she went on to dance for the famous singer and actress, Janet Jackson.
Started her acting career early in the 1990s playing in such movies as “Mi Familia”, “Money Train”
(1995), and “U-Turn” (1997), Lopez was known for the role she played in Gregory Nava's film entitled “My
Family” (1995) and for the role of Selena Quintanilla she performed in the movie “Selena” (1997), which
is a biographical depiction of the life and career of Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Perez, whose burgeoning career was
cut short when she was murdered at the age of 23. After that J.Lo got her next role in "Out Of Sight" (1998) where she played
along with George Clooney. Additionally, she later on 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), “Monster-In-Law” (2005) and in several other movies and television shows.
Not only Lopez good in acting, but singing as well.
Enjoying a variety of music genres, she focuses her music mostly on pop and inspired by the local "6" train she took from
the Castle Hill section of the Bronx where she grown up to get to her auditions in Manhattan, she named her 1st album released
in 1999 "On the 6." This album consists of J.Lo Spanish language, Latin-flavored duet "No me
ames" with Marc Anthony, which became very booming and that its first single "If You Had My Love" was #1 for more than
9 weeks. Later in the fall of 1999, Lopez released this album's second American single, “Waiting
For Tonight”, which success, in addition to the previous singles', brought "On the 6" to be certified 8 times
Platinum. Subsequent to the 1st album, nearly the end of 2000, Lopez released “Love Don't Cost A
Thing”, her first single from her second album, "J.Lo", which soon rocketed to the top of 2001 charts. This album's two other singles, "I'm Real" and "Ain't It Funny", had favorably
become the singer's biggest ever hits, both spending many weeks on top of the Billboard charts, made this 2ndalbum finally went platinum for nine times.
As well, in the mid-2002 Lopez
released a remix album called "J to Tha L-O!: The Remixes" which includes her featuring popular rap remixes of “I'm Real,” “I'm Gonna
Be Alright,” “Ain't It Funny,” and the dance remix of “Waiting For Tonight.” Also involved in
this album was Lopez new ballad song called "Alive" that was the soundtrack of her movie, “Enough.” Moreover,
in the fall the same year the already famous Lopez released "This Is Me... Then" that made her three other singles, “Jenny From The Block”, “All I Have” and “I'm Glad”,
became very popular. Later on, she worked on "Baby I Love You", the fourth single of her remix album that becomes the musical
theme for “Gigli”, before later on released its fifth single "The One." One year later, on November 18, 2003,
Lopez produced her fifth album, “Real Me”, which includes a DVD having all her music videos from her first video
"If You Had My Love" to her last one "Baby I Love You."
So in love with fashion and beauty stuff, Lopez, without ignoring
her music career, produced her “Glow” perfume which rocked the perfume industry during 2001 by being the number
1 perfume in more than 9 countries for more than 4 months. Furthermore, her passion for fashion has also led her to launch
her own clothing line, dubbed “J.Lo By Jennifer Lopez”, which similar to her perfume has also become the most
successful clothing line of artists on the industry market. Motivated by this success, Lopez once planned to launch a jewelry
line, hats, gloves, a scarves line and even launched her “Sweetface” new clothing line that successfully hit November
2003 stores. After that in October the same year this multitalented female introduced her second perfume called “Still”
which, in fact, still overwhelmed industry market along with her other merchandises that include clothing for men and a cologne
line for men released in winter 2004. “El Cantante” (2006), starring in alongside husband Marc Anthony. Subsequent to both movies, Lopez next was booked to topline New
Line Cinema comedy flick "Bridge and Tunnel" (2006), playing a stock trader who relies on a suburban teen who day-trades on his home PC. Amid her hectic filming schedules,
Lopez still had more projects to finish, produced the MTV series "Moves," a dance-based reality show revolving around six
amateur dancers trying to make it into showbiz, while also had herself involved in FX's half-hour project "Echo Park", a comedic
look at the world of yuppie, Latino and hipster cultures within Los Angeles' Echo Park neighborhood.
Lopez marked
the comeback in music scene with her first all-Spanish album titled "Como Ama Una Mujer". Unfortunately the record that was released on March 27, 2007 only peaked at #10 in Billboard Hot 200, the lowest chart
position of all her albums. In U.S. Top Latin Album chart, on the other hand, it enjoyed 7 straight weeks in the very top
position. As a result, "Como Ama Una Mujer" became
the largest selling Spanish debut album of all time in that year. While the anticipation on this album was still going on,
Lopez announced a September release of her next album which will be made in English again. Like most pop singers at that time,
Lopez preferred to get this album done in Hip-Hop, R&B and Funk with the experts. Her choice was Swizz Beatz, one of the
hottest producers in town beside Timbaland and Scott Storch.
