Jennifer López dazzling and thrilled as she said goodbye to the year in New York

The singer and actress Jennifer López offered an emotional show of a Times Square practically desert in which he was moved to remember the lives lost by the coronavirus this year.

The 51-year-old star was part of ABC’s New Year’s Rockin ‘Eve live special from New York City. Lopez showed up minutes before midnight after showing a video of the “Diva of the Bronx” heading to Times Square from the train station.

The singer dazzled by taking the stage in a multi-layered white dress and headdress that simulated a Valentino crystal ball. His outfit was a representation of the iconic crystal ball that marked the New Year in the Big Apple.

While performing her new single “In The Morning”, the singer was moved and reflected on the historic 2020.

“2020 is almost over. We did it. We did it,” said the artist visibly moved.

“We have to think about the beginning of this year, I was in one of the most important performances of my life. But tonight we’re going to do things a little bit differently. It’s okay, ”he added, referring to his performance in February 2020 during the Super Bowl halftime next to Shakira.

“If this year has taught us anything, it has taught us to be grateful for what we have, to appreciate every moment,” he said before proclaiming with emotion, “We have lost too many. To much people”.

The interpreter sang to a group of essential workers honored by the city, allowing about four dozen of them, accompanied by their loved ones, to experience the moment from small enclosed spaces set up for each of them in Times Square.

The artistic celebration included performances from the likes of Miley Cyrus, Megan Thee Stallion, Maluma, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Porter and Brandy.

The New Year’s Eve celebrations began in Times Square with the two hymns referring to the difficult year lived around the world: ‘I Will Survive’, sung by Gloria Gaynor, while Andra Day’s ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon performed. five minutes to midnight, as it has been for years. Pitbull, who performed ‘Don’t Stop the Party’, ‘I Believe That We Will Win’ and ‘Give Me Everything’, and Anitta, who performed ‘Downtown’, ‘Me gusta’ and ‘Vai’ sang Malandra ”, although Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” in the first seconds of 2021 was not missing, accompanied by fireworks and confetti.

The coronavirus has disrupted public life for months, and New Year’s Eve was no different for New York, which has recorded more than 25,000 deaths attributed to the virus.

Unlike the last century, New York marked the arrival of the New Year with an abandoned Times Square, where only a handful of key workers and agents deployed in the area witnessed the descent of the iconic and massive ball. So the New Yorkers responded to calls from the New York police, who had insisted the day before that the general public should not and could not go to Times Square to celebrate the last hours of 2020 and the first hours of 2021.

“Next year we will meet and fill Times Square. (…) But don’t even try to come and see him this year, ”Terence Monahan, New York Police Chief, asked at a press conference on Wednesday. Normally, hundreds of thousands of people attend the massive New Year’s Eve party in Times Square, where, despite the cold New York City, people from all over the world expressly travel to witness the event.

However, New York authorities have decided this year on hundreds of inflatable figures to give the square a festive atmosphere. The celebrations in that square are celebrated for 112 years, while the descent of the sphere, christened this year with the name “The gift of happiness”, is a real icon. It was the owners of the newspaper The New York Times, who began celebrating the start of the year on the roof of their Times Square building in 1904, who began using an illuminated sphere to mark the turn of the year in 1907.

The New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square dates back to 1904, when the then editor of The New York Times newspaper, Adolph Ochs, wanted to stage a fireworks display on the roof of the newspaper’s new headquarters for New Years Eve that year to commemorate the medium’s relocation. to its new offices, scheduled for a day later. It was not until three years later that the mythical ball made its appearance, which then weighed 317 kilograms, had a diameter of five feet and had attached a hundred white spheres.