Latest Release
- 3 MAY 2024
- 1 Song
- Waiting For Tonight - Single · 2024
- J. Lo · 2001
- On The 6 · 1999
- LOVE? (Deluxe Edition) · 2011
- Rebirth · 2005
- This Is Me...Then · 2002
- LOVE? (Bonus Version) · 2011
- J. Lo · 2000
- Ain't Your Mama - Single · 2016
- On The 6 · 1999
Essential Albums
- Before she was J.Lo, she was Jennifer Lopez—rising Bronx-born actress, just Jenny from the block. And though she was best known at the time for having played Selena, she had never so much as stood in a recording studio until it was time to make her own debut album. “It was all so new and scary and exciting,” Lopez tells Apple Music. “That was the seed of who I was—just a girl who used to ride the 6 train and had big dreams and was a hopeless romantic—all of that is right there. I think the best pop album—the best album, period—is when someone just gives you their heart and their soul completely, and they tell you who they are in every way.” In 1999, there was a massive wave of Latin pop stars crossing over with English-language hits—Ricky Martin, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias—and Lopez's debut rode that wave, pushed along by Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola, who had a heavy hand in what would become On the 6. “I was born in the Bronx,” Lopez says, “but I barely spoke Spanish—I still struggle with it to this day. People were accepting Latin artists as just great artists. It was a groundbreaking moment.” She duets in Spanish on “No Me Ames” with future husband Marc Anthony, and the Rodney Jerkins-produced lead single—and her first No. 1 hit—“If You Had My Love” has traces of Latin guitar, but the album's most indelible cross-cultural moment wasn't a hit at all. “It was never a single, but for me, 'Let's Get Loud' is the record that jumped off the album,” Lopez says. “In sports arenas and all around the world now when I perform it, it still brings down the house.” Lopez would go on to star in bigger movies and record bigger hits. But for all the out-of-the-box success and trailblazing, On the 6's most impressive feat may be the way it allowed her to have the nearly frictionless dual-track career that many stars have attempted but few have truly achieved. “I just feel like that's what I always wanted to do and anyone who wasn't on board with that programme got left behind,” Lopez says. “It's just not letting anybody tell you that you can't do something when you know deep down that's part of who you are.”
Albums
Artist Playlists
- From the block to the dance floor—and megastardom.
- Sizzling choreo and electric parties from the Bronx native.
- Zane sits down with Jennifer Lopez to discuss the 20th anniversary of her album This Is Me…Then.
- Get loud—and sweaty—with the megastar’s upbeat tracks.
- Her fiery pop paved the way for the next bicultural generation.
- These genre-hopping cuts feed her richly diverse style.
Live Albums
Compilations
Appears On
More To Hear
- Jennifer Lopez discusses her new single "Cambia el Paso."
- Jennifer Lopez on creating "Cambia El Paso" with Rauw Alejandro.
- The artist talks about defining moments in her career.
- The artists talk about Latinx Heritage Month.
- Christian Acosta talks to Jennifer Lopez and Camila Cabello.
- The Bronx artist on “Medicine” and her first tour in six years.
- The Bronx artist on “Medicine” and her first tour in six years.
About Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez’s canny ability to bring the Nuyorican soundtrack of her upbringing to the global stage has defined her career. It was never more apparent than in 2020's Superbowl LIV halftime performance, where she celebrated Puerto Rican pride in a thrilling, rhythm-heavy extravaganza. Blending uptown brass with brown-eyed soul and R&B, the multi-hyphenate artist brings her Latin freestyle edge to pop and hip-hop, always staying on the vanguard through savvy collaborations with French Montana, DJ Khaled, and Cardi B. Born in The Bronx in 1969, Jennifer Lynn Lopez started out in musical theatre as a child before she made waves as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color and then as an actress on the silver screen. Just after rising to fame with her acclaimed role as the late Tejano queen Selena, Lopez released her first single, 1999’s dance-pop banger “If You Had My Love”. Lopez welcomed funkier grooves and declared her hometown pride with 2002’s “Jenny from the Block”. She displayed her biculturalism and more romantic side on albums like 2007’s Como Ama una Mujer, but she proved she could still amp up the party when she teamed up with Pitbull for the EDM-heavy “On the Floor”. Over the decades, the performer has continued to embrace her lively funk sensibility, as evidenced by 2019’s “Medicine” single. “You gravitate to what you know, to what feels comfortable and what feels good [...] That funk, those instruments, that’s what makes me move,” Lopez told Apple Music. “That percussion and brass live inside my blood. That’s what I grew up with, and that’s who I am at my core. It’s always going to be an influence.” For 2024's This Is Me...Now—the follow-up to her 2002 album that was inspired, in part, by her then-new romance with Ben Affleck—she went back to the original source material: a collection of love letters that he had held on to after they broke up and given to her after they reconciled nearly two decades later. That year she also performed an Apple Music Live session in Los Angeles.
- HOMETOWN
- Bronx, NY, United States
- BORN
- 24 июля 1969 г.
- GENRE
- Pop