Jennifer Lopez says ‘music really does have power to heal’ in AMAs appearance

Jennifer Lopez said “music truly does person the powerfulness to heal and to uplift and to link us” portion celebrating the 50th day of the American Music Awards (AMAs).

The philharmonic peculiar featured pre-recorded interviews with erstwhile AMA winners, including state prima Carrie Underwood, Cuban vocalist Gloria Estefan and popular superstar and histrion Lopez, arsenic good arsenic five-time big Jimmy Kimmel.

Lopez reflected connected her astir memorable experiences astatine the AMAs during a taped interrogation shown during the ceremony, which was slated arsenic “celebrating fractional a period of groundbreaking euphony and popular civilization history”.

It comes astir 2 months aft she filed divorcement from histrion Ben Affleck pursuing 2 years of marriage.

Lopez said performing a tribute to precocious Cuban vocalist Celia Cruz during a show astatine the AMAs successful 2013 “was 1 of the astir peculiar nights of my beingness ever”.

“She’s specified an icon, and not conscionable successful Latin music, but crossed the world,” she said.

“Music truly does person the powerfulness to heal and to uplift and to link us.

“And the AMAs person been showcasing that for fractional a period now, and I’m excited for the adjacent 50 years of euphony and magic.”

The 55-year-old besides recalled watching the awards amusement “when I was a small girl”, describing 5 decades of the amusement arsenic “pretty incredible”.

“My archetypal show connected the AMAs (was in) 2001, it was truthful agelong ago… but the vigor successful the country was electric,” Lopez said.

“Winning a fan-voted grant is incredibly peculiar due to the fact that it is straight from the radical that you marque the euphony for. It’s conscionable a humbling experience.

“Hosting the AMAs successful 2015 evidently was a immense honour, I decided that I was going to alteration for each clip I came retired there.

“We did this creation medley to each of these astonishing songs from that year, and I wanted everyone to consciousness that emotion and energy.

“And possibly I’ll bash it again 1 time – who knows?”

The yearly AMAs ceremonial volition instrumentality successful May.