Few people can boast of conquering Hollywood as well as having a successful singing and dancing career, quite like the multi-talented superstar Jennifer Lopez.
Lopez, nicknamed J. Lo is an American actress, singer, dancer, producer and businesswoman who is widely acclaimed as the most influential Latin performer in the U.S. The versatile artist who have sold over 80 million records worldwide with a cumulative film gross of $3.1 million, was listed under the 100 most influential people in the world, by Times.
Her most successful singles on the U.S Billboard Hot 100 includes “If you had my love”, Love don’t cost a thing, I’m Real, Ain’t it Funny and “All I have” while her biggest blockbuster movies are Anaconda, Hustlers, among others.
Moreover, she is a judge on the American idol show from 2011 as well as on “World of Dance” (2019). She has also received many prestigious awards for her works.
Biography
Jennifer Lopez was born on July 24, 1969, to Puerto Rican Parents, Guadalupe Rodriguez and David Lopez. She has two siblings, an older sister Leslie and a younger sister Lynda. Her father is a former night shift worker at the Guardian Insurance company but later became a computer technician in the company, while her mother was a homemaker.
Lopez was enrolled in a singing and dancing class at the age of five. She attended Preston high school where she excelled more in athletics than academics and was a member of her school’s softball and gymnastics team.
While in her final year in high school, she auditioned for a part in “My little girl” and after starring in the movie, she decided that she was going to be a movie star.
However, she enrolled in Baruch University but dropped out after just one semester to focus fully on her dream. This resulted in a skirmish with her parents who thought that her idea of becoming a movie star was a “really stupid” idea. Yet she went ahead with her plans and was a part of the “Golden musicals of Broadway” and the show “Synchronicity”.
Career
Lopez was a backup dancer for the “New kids on the block” before earning a spot on the Fox TV series “In living colors” as one of the “Fly Girls”. This was followed by other acting jobs and TV movies.
Her first feature film was the “Mi Familia” or “My family” (1995). She also featured in “Money Train” the same year, as well as bagging the leading role in the 1997 “Selena” for which she won a Golden Globe nomination and also became the first Latin American to earn over $1 million dollars for a film. She also took part in Anaconda (1997) and Out of sight (1998).
Having established a presence in Hollywood, Lopez ventured into singing with her debut studio album, On the 6 (1999). She later released her second album JLo and featured in the comedy film “The wedding planner” simultaneously in 2011, thus she became the first woman to have a number one album and film in the same week.
Thereafter, she dropped J to that L – O! The remixes (2002) and movies such as “Maid in Manhattan”, the commercially unsuccessful movie “Gigli” (2003), “Shall we dance” (2004) and Monster – in – law (2005) as well as the critically acclaimed “Hustlers” (2019).
Jennifer Lopez Husband
Jennifer Lopez is determined to find true love and never gives up on her quest. This is adduced from the fact that she has been married three times during her career and has had a series of boyfriends in between. The 50-year-old is currently engaged to Alex Rodriguez and they seem to be a match made in heaven.
Lopez previously dated her high school sweetheart David Cruz. They stuck together throughout high school and beyond, as Lopez tried to break through in Hollywood. She also dated Wesley Snipes, whom she met on the set of ” “Money train” in 1995.
Subsequently, Lopez got into her first marriage with Ojani Noa in 1997. However, the marriage dissolved under a year and Lopez has been having legal tussles with Noa ever since; the latest being his threat to reveal everything about their marriage in a book. To hamper such move, she got a court injunction which stopped him from carrying out the threat.
Thereafter She dated Sean Comb in 1999, but the relationship was short-lived as the couple called it quits in 2001. After Comb, Lopez fell in love and tied the knot on September 2001 with her second husband Chris Judd, who was a dancer during the filming of “Love don’t cost a thing”. But the marriage crumbled in June 2002 and Lopez then hit it off with Ben Affleck and even got engaged to him. However, the wedding never held until they said good bye in 2004.
Shortly after her separation from Affleck, she began to date the Latino salsa singer, Marc Anthony. They exchanged marriage vows on June 2004 and welcomed their twin babies Max and Emme in January 2008. Her marriage with Anthony hit the rocks in July 2011 due to irreconcilable differences.
Lopez had other relationships with Beau “Casper” Smith and Drake, before meeting her current fiancé and former New York Yankees player, Alex Rodriguez. They got engaged in March 2019 after two years of dating. A source told US weekly that “Jennifer feels like she finally met her match and that he is really ‘ the one’ she was destined to be with”.
Jennifer Lopez Kids
Lopez welcomed her twins, Emme Maribel and Maximilian David with ex-husband Marc Anthony in 2008. Likewise, her fiance Rodriguez shares his two kids, Natasha (14) and Ella (11) with ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis.The
Moreover, Jennifer Lopez’s kids are showing promising musical talents, and they’ve also bonded well with Rodriguez kids as he pointed out to People magazine, “Our kids have become best friends and that keeps us both grounded and appreciative. We couldn’t have asked for anything better than the four of them getting along as they do”.
Grammys
Lopez has several awards to her credit. She has a total of 400 nominations in different award categories and has won 126.
So far, she hasn’t won any Grammys yet even though she had been nominated for ” Best dance recording” in 2000 and 2001 for ‘Waiting for tonight’ and ‘ Jennifer Lopez: Let’s Get Loud’ respectively.
Nevertheless, the singer with a net worth of $400 million, has 3 American music awards, 6 billboard music awards, 10 Billboard Latin music awards, 2 Guinness world records and a host of other accomplishments.
