Mar 29, 2007 12:34 am US/Eastern
J.Lo Returns To Roots With All-Spanish Album
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MIAMI (CBS4) ―
She dances, she acts, she sings and now Jennifer Lopez is celebrating the release of her new album. "Como Ama Una Mujer" or "How a Woman Loves" which hit stores on Tuesday. It was co-produced by her husband, Marc Anthony, and is her first album sung entirely in Spanish.
The Latin sensation, who was dissuaded from singing in Spanish by former Sony executive Tommy Mottola when she embarked on her career, is elated to return to her roots.
"I thought that my career was going to be in Spanish music, honestly," Lopez said. "My life took a different turn, which was great for me. But my heart was always kind of on the Spanish side."
Lopez, like many other Latinos born in the U.S., grew up mostly speaking English. She did not learn Spanish until she became an adult.
The album, which was two years in the making, is J.Lo's sixth. It's described as 'the dramatic story of love and separation and the courage necessary to find hope and new beginnings.'
"The title comes from one of the songs on the album and it became the theme. Every song is about the different ways a woman loves, whether it's the beginning of a relationship and that newfound love or it's about a relationship being over or that longing for someone who has become part of you or so many different songs that tap into those different emotions and moments in a loving relationship," said Lopez.
Lopez has recorded in Spanish before - her first demo was called "Vivir Sin Ti," and in 1999 she had an international duet hit with Marc Anthony, "No Me Ames."
One day after the album's release, "Jenny From The Block" was scheduled to meet fans at an autograph signing in the Bronx.
It's been a good year for Lopez so far. In February, she was honored by Amnesty International for producing and starring in "Bordertown," a new film examining the murders of women in a Mexican border city. The 38-year-old singer-actress plays an investigative journalist reporting on the serial killings of women in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's border with the U.S.
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