MOTHER-DAUGHTER DUO
JENNIFER Lopez performed at the pre-taped Global Citizen's VAX LIVE concert on Sunday, May 2.
Lopez, 51, was joined by a very special guest as she performed a cover of Neil Diamond's 1969 hit Sweet Carolina.
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Who is Jennifer Lopez's mother Guadalupe Rodríguez?
Guadalupe Rodriguez, 75, is the mother of three daughters including superstar JLo, Emmy Award-winning journalist Lynda Lopez and Leslie Lopez.
Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as a child Rodriguez sold Tupperware and also served as a school worker.
However, she became a homemaker following her marriage to David Lopez, who worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a computer technician at the firm.
Rodriguez, her husband and their three daughters lived in a small apartment in the Castle Hill neighborhood in the South Central Section of the Bronx.
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In 2015, Rodriguez made headlines after JLow revealed that her mother won $2.4million while playing the slot machines at The Borgata Casino in Atlantic City in the early 2000s.
Did JLo perform at Vax Live with her mother?
During her performance at the VAX LIVE concert, JLo invited her mother on stage for a cover of Diamond's Sweet Caroline.
The song was the "lullaby" Rodriguez used to sing Lopez when she was a child.
"Mom, is it true you used to sing me this song when I was a baby?" Lopez asked Rodríguez onstage.
"When I used to rock you... I would sing, 'Sweet Jennifer,'" Rodríguez confirmed.
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"Sing it to me just like you used to sing it to me," Lopez said, enlisting the audience's help.
The crowd, which consisted of 20,000 fully vaccinated frontline heroes, joined in and belted out the "Sweet Jennifer" rendition.
When is VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World?
VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World will be held on May 8, 2021, at 8pm ET on Youtube.
It will be streaming on the Global Citizen’s YouTube page.
The pre-taped concert will also air on ABC, ABC News Live, CBS, iHeartMedia broadcast radio stations and the iHeartRadio App.
It will be airing on FOX at 11pm ET/PT, and AXS TV.
VAX LIVE will be hosted by Selena Gomez and will feature other A-list celebrities on the special night.
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