Ritmo Latino, a Spanish music store chain has banned all J-Lo’s CD’s from all of it’s 50 stores, after Ms. Lopez has allegedly refused to do personal appearances at the stores to promote her first Spanish language CD - Como Ama una Mujer ("How a Woman Loves").
Ritmo President David Massry tells the New York Daily News that. “We’ve supported her from the beginning. Now we’re told by her record company she will only visit Anglo retail outlets…This is a Spanish-language CD, and if she wants to discriminate against the Latin community, then we will not sell her product. This is not the first time this has happened. Celebrities have this notion that when they reach a certain level of crossover appeal, they forget quickly where they started. We will no longer tolerate these situations.”
Kevin Lawrie, head of Sony's Latin division (Sony Norte), tells Usmagazine.com: "We (the label) felt that it was important that Jennifer do her in-store in the Bronx, where she is from and where there is substantial cultural diversity. Unfortunately, Ritmo Latino has no outlets in the Bronx."
As reported here on Styletraxx J-Lo made an appearance Wednesday at the FYE record store in her home borough of the Bronx and signed autographs for hundreds of fans who bought her new disc, Como Ama una Mujer ("How a Woman Loves").