Jennifer Lopez at Celebrity Fight Night in Phoenix
The singer will perform, receive humanitarian award
Jennifer Lopez will perform and receive a humanitarian award at this year’s Celebrity Fight Night on Saturday, March 23, at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix.
“She’s the biggest current celebrity we’ve ever had,” Fight Night executive director Sean Currie said. “The energy level is at a whole new place with the performance she’s got planned. And she’s got a special guest star, we can’t say who, who will perform with her to close the show.”
Currie has tried to book Lopez before, but this was the first time the opportunity worked with her schedule. He partnered with Lopez’s charity, the Lopez Family Foundation, in July to arrange the star’s appearance.
The night’s primary beneficiary is the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute, and Ali will be the featured guest, but many of the stars who participate in the night often raise money for other charities. Lopez’s charity is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children and women around the world.
“My sister Lynda and I started the Lopez Family Foundation to really help children in need of medical treatments around the world,” Lopez said in an e-mail. “We are both single mothers and we understand the responsibility we have to keep our kids safe and healthy. I really could not imagine my life without doing this and helping these kids. We are proud of the work that we have done in Puerto Rico and Panama, but this is only the beginning.”
Currie said Lopez presents herself with “so much class.”
“We are looking to share in that limelight that she creates when she walks into the room,” he said. “She certainly knows how to dress the part and act the part and treat people with respect and dignity and really help us all go beyond what any of us are capable of doing on our own in terms of bringing attention to this cause.”
Arizona businessman Jimmy Walker started Celebrity Fight Night in 1994, and since then, the night has raised $80 million to benefit Phoenix’s Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at the Barrow Neurological Institute and other charities.
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