Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez

Early Life

Jennifer Lynn Lopez a.k.a. Jennifer Lopez, born on July 24, 1970 in the Soundview section of Bronx, New York City, New York, is known for being an Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, designer, dancer and fashion icon. She was born to David Lopez, 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, 5-year-old she 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 participating in track, field and tennis. Her friends there called her "La Guitarra" because of her guitar-curved body.

Career

Right after she graduated from high school at age 18 J.Lo moved out from her parent's home and worked at a law firm while taking dancing jobs at night. J.Lo's breakthrough came in 1990 when she was offered a job as a fly girl on Fox's hit comedy "In Living Color." In the next two years, she went on to dance for the famous singer and actress Janet Jackson.

Starting 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 in the movie "Selena" (1997). The latter pic 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. 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.

Personal Life

Not only Lopez was good at acting, but singing as well. Enjoying a variety of music genres, she focused her music mostly on pop and was inspired by the local "6" train she took from the Castle Hill section of the Bronx where she grew up to get to her auditions in Manhattan to name her 1st album released in 1999 "On the 6." This album includes Spanish language, Latin-flavored duet "No me ames" with Marc Anthony which became very booming. The set's first single "If You Had My Love" was #1 for more than 9 weeks.

Later in the fall of 1999, Lopez released the album's second American single, "Waiting for Tonight". Neear 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 spendt many weeks on top of the Billboard charts, making Lopez's 2nd album nine times platinum.

In mid-2002 Lopez released a remix album called "J to Tha L-O!: The Remixes" which includes 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 included in this album was Lopez's 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 featured hits including "Jenny From the Block", "All I Have" and "I'm Glad".

Later on, she worked on "Baby I Love You", the fourth single of her remix album that becomes the musical theme for "Gigli", before releasing the fifth single "The One." One year later, on November 18, 2003, Lopez produced her fifth album, "Real Me", which includes a DVD featuring 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, launched her "Glow" perfume which rocked the perfume industry during 2001 by being 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, like her perfume, has also become successful on the industry.

source:aceshowbiz.com