No one tries harder to be a diva than Jennifer Lopez.

BarcelonaJennifer Lopez jumps, flips her hair, and looks at the horizon with a look of satisfaction. The Bronx singer made her debut this Tuesday at the Palau Sant Jordi, demonstrating something that was already apparent when she performed at the Super Bowl halftime show five years ago: no one puts in as much effort and dedicates more energy to being a total diva. With a stamina that seems almost superhuman, JLo wanted to keep the promise she made to the audience at the beginning of the show: to offer them the best night of their lives.

The 55-year-old singer has often confessed that she is driven by the desire to be loved, a feeling that, using the self-help discourse so fashionable in recent years, she has attributed to the fact that she is the middle of three sisters. According to her, the search for the love that was denied to her as a child is the driving force behind her career whose ultimate goal is to prove that she deserves recognition, whether as a singer or actress. In short, she was always the best. This Tuesday's concert at the Palau Sant Jordi was a showcase of this vital need.

The show began with a series of frenetic dances to the rhythm of some of the best-known songs of his career, such as On the floor and BootyTo show that beyond being a great dancer she is also a singer with mixed references Ain't your mama with Sexy MF, by Prince, and Jenny from the block –the song on which she has built the narrative of a girl from the neighborhood– with we will Rock You, by Queen. "I'm still the same girl from the neighborhood. That's how it is," said the singer, who throughout the night made efforts to address the audience in Spanish, with varying degrees of success. "I'm trying to speak more Spanish, really. If I make a mistake, please appreciate the effort," she remarked, laughing. Diva, but approachable. Rich, but humble.

It was the hits historical ones that made the audience stand up, such as Love doesn't cost a thing, which received the first standing ovation of the night. These explosive moments were followed by more uneven segments such as the version of Thanks to life, by Violeta Parra, and a If you had my love Passed through the sieve of flamenco sounds. To top it all off, she choreographed with a Manila shawl and a tight, deep red corset, her own unique way of paying homage to the audience on this tour of the country.

Accustomed to appearing in magazines for her romantic relationships, JLo, who defines herself as a hopeless romantic, had no problem talking about her failed loves with a certain amount of irony. Just before singing All I have, one of her romantic songs, she declared, laughing: "I think I've had enough of marriages. I've tried enough times." In total, Lopez searched for her "happily ever after" four times.

Although the Bronx native doesn't use the concept of eras popularized by Taylor Swift, at the concert it was easy to identify the different stages of her career, from the years she played with hip-hop, to the beginnings of her career and coinciding with her relationship with Puff Daddy, until she embraced her Puerto Rican origins and became queen of the Latin ecosystem through marriage with Marco AnthonyOne of the best results of this professional and sentimental union is What did you do?, which he sang with more power than accuracy. Shortly before, he had introduced the song as one of his "anti-love" themes, then exclaimed: "Love is awesome." The closing tribute to family origins was If once, about Selena Quintanilla, a pioneer of Tex-Mex music and one of the first major Latin stars in the United States. Lopez's first major film role was, in fact, a biopic about Quintanilla. Let's get loud over the top and one Play with sample of Pump it up They turned Sant Jordi into a huge dance floor. And, despite assuring that he won't walk down the aisle again, he made the fans happy by singing The ring, a song with an absolutely retrograde vision of marriage and very linked to the time when she was dating baseball player Alex Rodriguez, with whom she got engaged, but never married.

The tour that started just a week ago in Pontevedra allows López to get rid of the bad taste in her mouth from last summer, when the dying marriage to Ben Affleck made me cancel the tour which was supposed to take her all over the United States. "I made a promise to my children: I wanted to teach them that you can go through difficult times and that you can come out stronger than before." On Tuesday night, Jennifer Lopez put on a performance worthy of a phoenix on the Sant Jordi stage.