Jennifer Lopez “got loud” with her daughter Emme in Los Angeles on Thursday night.
The singer and actress, 52, headlined the LA Dodgers Foundation’s Blue Diamond Gala, called “The Party for LA,” on June 16, raising $36 million to promote education, health care, homelessness and social justice for all residents of Los Angeles. Angels to improve.
At one point during the evening, Lopez’ daughter Emme Maribel Muñiz (14), who she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony, took the stage and performed a mix of songs, using her own vocal talents both solo and in harmony. with her very musical mother.
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Perhaps most memorable, the pair sang an emotional duet of Christina Perri’s tearjerker, “A Thousand Years.” She also sang a verse from Bruce Springsteen’s classic, “Born in the USA,” as footage from her performance at the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime show played behind her, kicking off a rendition of “Let’s Get Loud.”
– 🫶🏽 @JLo pic.twitter.com/I3X3DtQfQe
— Patricia (@Patrix_Queens) June 17, 2022
a mother and daughter singing a song about love and the daughter holding a microphone with the pride flag on it… the message behind this is so strong and i’m so happy my idol is such a great person!!! @JLo #Lulu pic.twitter.com/NtyfRfNZpX
— ermi (@glossyjlo_) June 17, 2022
I don’t cry, you do
Emme and @JLo #LetsGetLoud pic.twitter.com/J3SmtzHag7– Camila Naiara | Halftime🎬 (@ CamilaNaiara18) June 17, 2022
According to AND! newsLopez joked at one point that she and Emme were “really expensive to book”, but added that she loves bringing her daughter on stage when she can.
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Lopez previously spoke of her daughter taking the stage after Emme joined her mother on the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2020. [the performance] is or how it scares you,” Lopez said in February 2020 on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“That’s what you have to do when you’re up there, you know — you have to kind of… [have] check. She has that gene, that ‘I feel comfortable here…’ I wish I felt more like her.’
However, Lopez added: “[Emme] has a good time with it and I would never let her do it if it ever made her uncomfortable.”
