They really committed to the bit didn’t they?? Couldn’t tell me they weren’t the ones actually singing!
Repeat Offender JLo!
‘Jenny From the Block’ is such a trademark J. Lo song that it’s hard to think of anyone else singing it: but believe it or not, someone else actually has been the entire time. In continuing efforts to prove J. Lo’s “street cred”, ‘Jenny from the Block’ was released as the first single from This Is Me… Then in 2002, featuring rappers Jadakiss and Styles P. And yet again, the chorus and bridge was sung by someone other than herself.
This time, it was Natasha Ramos whose voice was appropriated for the song, after she demoed the track that was apparently especially written for Lopez. Ramos’ voice is actually quite similiar to Jenny’s, and we probably wouldn’t have noticed if the demo for ‘Jenny From the Block’ hadn’t leaked featuring some of the exact same vocals that popped up in the final song. Ramos sings the entire chorus and bridge, which makes us wonder: should we have been fooled by the rocks that she’s got, after all?
Did you know? The Belgian eurodance act Technotronic—used a model named Felly to stand in for the rapper-singer who recorded the global hit “Pump Up the Jam,” Ya Kid K.
Technotronic was a Belgian electronic music project formed in 1988 by Jo Bogaert. Together with vocalist Ya Kid K (Manuela Kamosi), he produced the hit single “Pump Up the Jam“, which was originally an instrumental. An image for the act was later put together, utilizing Congolese-born fashion model Felly Kilingi as its album/single cover art, and supposed singer in the music video.
But because of the pushback, they soon fixed that and Ya Kid K performed in the live shows, like this one on Arsenio Hall.