At Home with Jennifer Lopez: The Playlist

Latin music was a big part of Jennifer Lopez’s upbringing, although it wasn’t until she got older that she began to appreciate what her parents and grandparents liked. “At Christmastime, all we listened to was salsa and merengue. When you're young, you're like, ‘Ah, I hate this music. I want to hear hip-hop, I want to hear pop music,” Lopez tells Apple Music. “They always instilled that in us. I didn't realize how much of it has seeped into my blood and that it would be a part of me.” The singer and actor likes to keep up with what’s new and refuses to stay stuck in the past. Her recent collaborations with Colombian superstar Maluma, “Pa' Ti” and “Lonely,” featured right at the top of this exclusive Apple Music playlist, are testament to her continued evolution as an artist. Other artists she curated herself for this playlist of songs keeping her inspired include Pop Smoke, Zoe Wees, and her ideal embodiment of the perfect pop star, Dua Lipa, highlighted here with her J Balvin/Tainy collaboration “UN DIA (ONE DAY).” “There's something about her, like I know she has the bigger-picture vision,” she says. “She's killing the game right now. I'm a fan.”