Jennifer Lopez towards 'El Cantante' Detractor: 'This Is The Truth'

Criticism and argument trailed Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony in recent days as they made their manner through the country of dealing with the siftings anticipated for their new film, “EL CANTANTE”, about the rise and fall of one of the most inventive vocalists of the salsa, Hector Lavoe. But in the festive atmosphere according to the first of Hollywood opening this week at the Directors Guild of America Theatre on Sunset Boulevard, they were in any mood to be conceded with their detractors.

Lopez put fire behind in a tonality which made echo the character feisty that it plays in film, Puchi Perez, wife of late Lavoe, played by Marc Anthony. Sat beside her husband because they greeted well-wishers, Lopez defied criticisms: “I do not know which film they want to see, because it is the truth.” It was an approximate turn for the couples of power of New York, which worked during almost six years to make film, first effort of Lopez Nuyorican Productions.

The movie, which opened Friday, obtains filtered by criticisms and blew by salsa of large-name holds the first role, including some which really worked on the project. The attacks were pitiless, particularly on the Internet, where the film realizers were shown culture of suburbs to usurp and exploitation of the memory of Lavoe. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony do not know anything about the salsa, grouses a caustic critic of a Latin newsgroup of jazz of Yahoo. They grew in New York singing in English and turned towards the Latin music to make only the money, the growls of poster bitterly. After the first of film in Puerto Rico, the singer Ismael Miranda, a contemporary of salsa of Lavoe which plays her father in the “EL CANTANTE,” publicly condemned film to concentrate too much on the drug misuse of the tragic artist, who led thereafter to his death starting from the complications of AIDS.

Miranda was associated his criticism by the singer Domingo Quiñónez, who also has a part of little in film, and Cheo Feliciano, a venerated vocalist and member (with Miranda and Lavoe) of Fania All-Holds the first role, superb-group of the Seventies 'which helped launching the pole of salsa.