“All I want my girls, the little girls on stage with me and all over the world to know is how to use their voices and be proud of everything they are,” the 50-year-old icon wrote Monday in a statement on social media. “Other people can try to build walls, keep us out or put us in cages. We are proud to recognize that all of us together are what makes this beautiful country truly great.”
The show that Lopez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, put on Sunday included children in cages. They crawled out wearing sweaters with the American flag on it. Her 11-year-old daughter Emme then belted out part of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” as Lopez sang “Get Loud.” Lopez wore a coat of feathers arranged as the flags of both the United States and Puerto Rico.