Jennifer Lopez 2007
 Lopez was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodr?guez, a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez, a computer specialist. She has two siblings, Lynda and Leslie. Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools. She financed singing and dancing lessons for herself from the age of 19. After attending Baruch College for one semester, Lopez divided her time between working in a legal office, dance classes, and dance performances in Manhattan clubs at night. After months of auditioning for dance roles, Lopez was selected as a dancer for various rapmusic videos, a 1990 episode of Yo! MTV Raps, and as a backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block and their performance of their song Games for the American Music Awards in 1991. After being rejected twice, Lopez gained her first regular high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. Soon after, Lopez became a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and made an appearance in her 1993 video That's the Way Love Goes.
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