Jennifer Lopez.Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen VAX LIVE
Jennifer Lopezbrought down the house atGlobal Citizen’sVAX Live: The Concert to Reunite the World.
For the big show, the 51-year-old singer took the stage twice at the philanthropic concert event, opening the concert with a special rendition ofNeil Diamond’s iconic song, “Sweet Caroline.” The concert special was taped last week at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, last weekend.
Midway through, Lopez brought her mother, Guadalupe Rodríguez, on stage to finish out the classic song which she tweaked the lyrics to “Sweet Jennifer.”
Jennifer Lopez and her mom Guadalupe Rodríguez.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen VAX LIVE
When it came to the special moment between Lopez and her mom, Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evanspreviously told PEOPLEit “was entirely Jennifer’s idea,” adding, “I think the great thing aboutJ. Lois her creative vision is so precise.”
Of the sweet mother-daughter moment, Evans also said, “I was sitting on the production desk watching when she brought on her mum and I was like, ‘Wow, that’s it.’ I just felt the goosebumps all over. There was something incredibly powerful about that moment of connection after the year that whole world is endured.”
Jennifer Lopez.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen VAX LIVE
Later inthe show, Lopezhit the stage once more andwowed with a follow-up performance of her 2016 single, “Ain’t Your Mama.”
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Earlier in her set, Lopez celebrated being “all here in the same room” to those “beautiful” individuals gathered to take in the show, adding, “We’ve been away from our loved ones for too long, but we’re back.”
“But while it’s getting better for us, there are people all over the world, especially in Africa, India and in the Latin world who still need our help and our vaccines,” the actress continued. “That’s why we’re here tonight.”
When Global Citizen reached out to Lopez to headline, “she was incredibly generous and just said straight away she’d love to, and the momentum built from there,” Evans previously told PEOPLE.
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