Lopez was in a nearly decade-long relationship with David Cruz, her high school boyfriend, until the mid-1990s. Her other ventures include beauty and clothing lines, fragrances, a production company, and a charitable foundation. For her contributions to the recording industry, she has a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has received the Billboard Icon Award and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, among other honors. Her most successful singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 include "If You Had My Love", "I'm Real", "Ain't It Funny", "All I Have", and "On the Floor". Time listed her among their 100 most influential people in the world in 2018. In 2012, Forbes ranked her the world's most powerful celebrity, and the 38th most powerful woman in the world. With a cumulative film gross of US$3.1 billion and estimated global sales of 80 million records, she is considered the most influential Hispanic entertainer in North America. Lopez is considered a pop culture icon, and is often described as a triple threat entertainer. She also produced and served as a judge on World of Dance (2017–2020). From 2016 to 2018, she starred in the police drama series Shades of Blue and performed a residency show, Jennifer Lopez: All I Have, at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. Following a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to prominence in 2011 with her appearance as a judge on American Idol and released her seventh studio album, Love?. Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer (2007), had the highest first week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States. Lopez at the 25th GLAAD Media Awards in 2014Īfter starring in Gigli (2003), a critical and commercial failure, Lopez starred in the successful romantic comedies Shall We Dance? (2004) and Monster-in-Law (2005). Then and starred in the film Maid in Manhattan. Later that year, she released her third studio album, This Is Me. Her 2002 release, J to tha L–O! The Remixes, became the first remix album in history to debut atop the US Billboard 200. With the simultaneous release of her second studio album J.Lo and her romantic comedy The Wedding Planner in 2001, she became the first woman to have a number-one album and film in the same week. Lopez ventured into the music industry with her debut studio album On the 6 (1999), which helped propel the Latin pop movement in American music, and later starred in the psychological horror The Cell (2000). She went on to star in Anaconda (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), and established herself as the highest-paid Hispanic actress in Hollywood. For her first leading role in Selena (1997), she became the first Hispanic actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. In 1991, Lopez began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on the sketch comedy television series In Living Color, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993. She also traveled around America with regional productions of the musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Oklahoma! During this period, Lopez also danced in music videos. When she returned to the United States, she was hired as a backup dancer for New Kids on the Block's performance of "Games" at the 1991 American Music Awards. In 1990, she danced alongside MC Hammer in an episode of Yo! MTV Raps and traveled around Japan for four months as a chorus member in Synchronicity. Lopez's first professional job came in 1989 when she spent five months touring Europe with the musical revue show Golden Musicals of Broadway. Lopez performing during her Dance Again World Tour in Paris, France in 2012 Lopez moved to Manhattan, sleeping in the dance studio's office for the first few months. Her mother asked her to move out of the family home and they stopped speaking for eight months. Her parents were unhappy with her decision to leave college to pursue a dance career. At age 18, she enrolled as a full-time student at Manhattan's Phil Black Dance Studio, where she had already taken night classes in jazz and tap dance. Lopez made her acting debut at age 16 with a small role in the 1986 film My Little Girl. After graduating from high school, she had a part-time secretarial job at a law firm and studied business at New York's Baruch College for one semester. As a teenager, she learned flamenco, jazz, and ballet at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and taught dance to younger students, including Kerry Washington. At the age of five, she began taking dance lessons at Ballet Hispánico on the Upper West Side. West Side Story made a particular impression on the young Lopez and she wanted to be an entertainer from an early age. There was "lots of music" in the typically Puerto Rican household, and Lopez and her sisters were encouraged to sing, dance and create their own plays for family events.
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