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Jennifer
Lynn López known as Jennifer
López was born on July 24,
1970, in New York City, New York,
USA. American actress, singer, designer,
dancer, and fashion icon. Lopez
speaks English and Spanish and has
two sisters, Leslie (a music teacher)
and Lynda, a well known television
news anchor. 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'. 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. |
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.
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.
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