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Featured Celebrity: Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn López (also known as J. Lo, born July 24, 1969) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, fashion designer, dancer, and all-around cultural icon.

Early Years
Lopez was born and raised in the Castle Hill section of The Bronx, New York City, New York. She is also a bilingual speaker of English and Spanish. Lopez has two sisters, Leslie (a music teacher) and Lynda, a well known television news anchor at WCBS-TV.

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Lopez started off as a backup dancer. She later took up acting, saying that she always knew she wanted to do this, and that her inspiration came from some of her favorite artists.

Television shows
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. Later, she starred in Second Chances and Hotel Malibu.

Music
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.

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" (which became a staple DJ starter song at various kinds of affairs).

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. In 2004, Lopez had her duets with Marc Anthony on his albums Amar Sin Mentiras and Valio La Pena which was "Escapemonos" which was featured in Latin Pop and Salsa.

Lopez's fourth studio album Rebirth was released on March 1, 2005. The album has spawned the hit, "Get Right", which was well received worldwide, debuting at #1 in the UK; peaking at #3 in Australia; and peaking in the top 20 in the USA. The second single, "Hold You Down", with rapper Fat Joe, has yet to ignite the charts, only barely making it into the top 75, peaking at #64.

To add to the failure of "Hold You Down", it has recently been reported that Lopez is in strife with her current album. Only selling 400,000 copies as far, the album has been considered a flop, and has not been well received by the general public. As well as that, only chances of the album being promoted has been dashed, as the advertising campaign for Rebirth has already exceeded its limit financially, and is rumoured to have seen Lopez US$125,000 in debt.

But that's not the end of "Rebirth", recently has been confirmed that J.Lo's new single of her fourth studio album will be "Whatever You Wanna Do" which brings a more vibe and hype than "Get Right." This track is a mix of funk, hip hop and dance. Many are expecting for this new single to bring J.Lo's fourth album to the top, almost the same method used back in 2001.

Rumours have it that Lopez is still to grace her presence in the music scene, with two albums supposedly in production. There is the much hyped Spanish album, a collaboration with husband, Marc Anthony. As well as that, there is also rumours of a new remix album, encompassing hits from Lopez's albums: This Is Me...Then and Rebirth.

Lopez has been in two short-lived marriages. The first one, which was with Ojani Onoa, ended in divorce in 1998 after 21 months, and the second, in 2001-2002, was with Chris Judd, her former backup dancer. Between marriages, in 1999-2000, she dated singer and designer Puff Daddy, breaking up after a shooting incident in a New York night club. Recently, Lopez has been engaged to Ben Affleck, but the marriage planned for September 13, 2003 was called off a few days before the event. In January 2004 the couple split.

News media reported that on June 5, 2004, Lopez married singer Marc Anthony. However, after more than half a year of matrimony, it has been rumoured that the Lopez-Anthony marriage may be on the rocks.

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