Jennifer Lopez Biography - Profile
Birth name: Jennifer Lopez
Birthday: July 24, 1970
Place of birth: Bronx, New York, USA
Nationality: USA
Raised in: Bronx, New York, USA
Natural hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Height: 165 cm (5'5)
Nicknames: J Lo, La Lopez, La Guitarra, The Supernova,
Jenny Lo
Education / Profession: Catholic school, High School, Actress, Musician, Model
Labels: Sony, Epic
Music styles: Club, Dance,
Latin, Pop
Claim to fame: film "Selena" (1997) > music "If
you had my love" (1999)
Awards:
> BMI Pop Awards: 2000 (If you had my love), 2001
(Waiting for tonight)
> MTV Video Music Awards: 2000 (Waiting For
Tonight), 2002 (I'm Real)
> MTV Europe Music Awards: 2000, 2001, 2002
> DanceStar Music Awards: 2002
> ALMA Awards: 1998 (Actress), 2000 (Achievement,
If you had my love), 2001 (Achievement), 2002 (Love Don't Cost A
Thing)
> American Music Awards: 2003, 2007
How it all started:
Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24, 1970 in
Bronx, New York, as the middle of three daughters of computer
technician David Lopez and his wife Guadalupe. Both her parents
come from Puerto Rico but met in New York, having been brought
to America already as children.
In the rough
neighbourhood of Bronx, the girls’ mother liked to encourage
them to fill their free time with worthwhile hobbies and little
Jennifer was taking singing and dancing lessons since the age of
5, together with her sisters performing small shows of Latin
dancing and many reprisals of the West Side Story – Jennifer’s
favourite – even touring New York when she was 7 with her
dancing school.
Her taste
for dancing and singing stayed with her all through her
education, she performed in small-scale musicals and on chorus
lines, and also added to her interests softball, tennis,
gymnastics and athletics, all engaged in with considerable skill.
When she was
16, she got her first movie role – playing Myra in My Little
Girls, also starring Mary Stuart Masterson. No dazzling movie
career followed just yet, but the first bite was taken – and
apparently it tasted good.
After high
school, she got really busy – simultaneously getting a job at a
law firm, enrolling at a college and continuing with her dancing
lessons at night. The college was the link to break under such
pressure – she only stayed there for one semester. Her mother
was not too impressed with her daughter dropping out of school
and Jennifer left home.
A year and a
half later it almost seemed her mother had been right – Jennifer
just failed an audition for a dancer in the Fox show In Living
Color and her luck and spirits seemed low. She did however win a
place as a dancer in a Japanese tour of Hinton Battle’s show and
upon her return, In Living Color called back – to ask her to
another audition which she won.
She stayed
with the show for two years and afterwards wasn’t short of
dancing offers, she appeared for instance in Janet Jackson’s
dance videos, but it was acting she was more interested in. She
got a role in The Crash of Flight 7, TV series Second Chances,
South Central and Hotel Malibu or films like My Family, Jack or
Blood and Wine. Her breakthrough came in 1997 when she won the
leading role in the film Selena – earning herself a
well-deserved nomination for Golden Globe and becoming a big
name.
She started
looking also in the direction of music. Being a well-recognized
showbiz persona who has proven herself in the role of the slain
singer Selena, getting a contract with Sony reportedly wasn’t
that difficult really. She appeared in Puff Daddy’s video, sang
a duet with Marc Anthony
(her future husband), finally releasing her first
album in 1999, with a symbolical name On the 6. 6 was the line
she would take travelling full of hope to her dancing school and
auditions as a kid.
The album
spawned such hits as Let’s Get Loud, If You Had My Love or
Waiting for Tonight that made the world sing along. And it made
J-Lo one of the very few people – amongst many trying in vain –
which are truly successful in both music and film.
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1999 - "On the 6"
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