Meet Miami’s Hautest Social Media Stars

Jenny Lopez 

Fashion blogger Jenny Lopez is a model and a mother who boasts 126,000 Instagram followers. With a love for vintage shopping, artisan-made apparel and discovering new faces in the fashion industry, Jenny shows her romantic, gypset style, through her blog, lopezjennylopez.com and different social media outlets.

Starting her career at a young age has opened up to numerous projects from a diverse list of clients ranging from L’Oreal to Free People, giving her the versatility and opportunity to travel the world, inspiring her day by day and her ever-evolving sense of fashion and style. Thanks to her career in modeling and her successful blog, she has been able to contribute to Vogue Latin America, writing a column for them called “Jenny on the Go” and collaborating with other different projects for the magazine.

HL: Which social media platform do you think is the most influential right now?

JL: Instagram.

HL: What makes you decide to share something?

JL: My constant search for feel-good fashion makes me want to share my discoveries with everyone, transmitting to people on behalf of my experiences all the lovely things I encounter.

HL:  What do you use your accounts for?

JL: To share my discoveries and obsessions, with all things fashion and lifestyle.

HL:  How has social media helped you in the real world?

JL: It has been a great way to get to meet people and develop several

collaborations.

HL: What are your favorite Instagram / Twitter / Facebook accounts to 

follow?

JL: Margaret Zhang, Vecoolstyle, Miranda Makaroff, Manrepeller, Gala González, Rocky Barnes and Maja Wyh.

DJ Khaled

DJ Khaled is the king of Snapchat, attracting more than 4 million viewers to his “snaps.” His other platforms aren’t too shabby either. He has 2.5 million Twitter followers and 4 million on Instagram. A man of many talents, the new father is a record producer, radio personality, DJ and record label executive. His swagger and humor has made his “major key alerts” trend. He holds a very heavy influence in the rap game due to his collaborations with countless musicians from all calibers.

Preferred platform: He’s the king of Snapchat.

Subject matter: Sharing his “Keys to Success.” As he demonstrated on Jimmy Kimmel, they can be anything and everything. Gems include avocating mouthwash and not riding a jet ski at night.

Social media benefits: His Keys to Success gave way to “Major Key Alerts,” the title of his new album. His social media is the key to promoting his new music, videos and products, which can be spotted in his videos.

Follows: All the Kardashians and extended players, Michelle Obama, Giulana Rancic, Chris Bosh, Tom Ford, Lindsay Lohan, Cara Delevingne, Dwyane Wade, Nicki Minaj, Kelly Rowland, Floyd Mayweather, John Legend, Udonis Haslem and more.

Check out is humorous observation site theydontwantyouto.win. It generates nuggets of Khaled’s wisdom.

Chris Bosh

Chris Bosh is a basketball All-Star, philanthropist, Mr. Nice Tie founder and father to three beautiful children. He’s also boasts 1.8M followers on Instagram and 2.53M on Twitter. Bosh may be sidelined right now for health reasons, but that doesn’t keep his enormous number of followers from getting a taste of how he’s spending his time. Husband to fellow social-media maven Adrienne Bosh, Bosh always lets it be known that home with his wife and kids is always his favorite place to be.

Preferred platform: Bosh actually has more followers on Facebook (2.6M) than on any other platform.

Subject matter: Bosh gives followers a peek at his life at home with his family, vacations, training and his enviable diet.

Social media benefits: He is promoting a business project titled #BoshRebuilt that he has been working on with “@uninterrupted”―there are currently two episodes out. Also, he promotes his blog, boshblog. He also has a sneaker collection featured on his website, Chrisbosh.com.

Follows: Kid Cudi, The Rolling Stones, David Beckham, Kevin Hart, Alicia Keys, Bruno Mars, Jamie Fox, Jared Leto, James Franco, Mark Zuckerberg, John Legend, Richard Branson, deadmau5 and many more.

Lili Estefan

Lili Estefan, the host of El Gordo y la Flaca on Univision is an entertainer and well-known Cuban model. Estefan began her career in the late ’80s while modeling for one of Univision’s biggest hits, Sábado Gigante.  Estefan quickly became the public’s favorite as well as show host Don Francisco’s favorite. With 1.7M Instagram followers and 1.04M Twitter followers, Estefan has the ability to share her achievements through her travel and family festivities, on-Set pictures and by promoting her work and lifestyle with her many fans.

Preferred platform: Instagram

Subject matter: You’re going to need to hablar Español to understand Estefan’s Intagram page. Or you can just look at the pix that take followers behind the scenes on set, out with her friends and with family. This includes her husband, Lorenzo Lucases, her son Lorenzo and daughter Lina Teresa.

Social media benefits: She can promote her Latina Love Tour and help boost the audience for El Gordo y la Flaca. 

Follows: Alexia Echevarria, Marysol Patton, Taylor Swift, Sofia Vergara, Perez Hilton, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pharrell Williams, LeBron James, Gloria Estefan, Ellen Degeneres, Serena Williams, Eva Longoria, Prince Royce, Hillary Clinton, Alejandro Sanz and Ricky Martin.

Ryan Tannehill

Ryan Tannehill is an All-Pro NFL quarterback, life enthusiast and most of all, charitable humanitarian. With 118k Instagram followers and 127k Twitter followers, Tannehill inspires us by giving back to the community. We get the vibe that Tannehill definitely has a love for making an impact on those who are ill, mentally or physically disabled and for children aspiring to be something more. We gather all this through his social media activity and posts.

Preferred platform: Twitter

Subject matter: Gives followers an inside look at team life, attending sporting events and his personal life with his wife and all-American beauty, Lauren Tannehill, who has 40k Insta followers of her own.

Social media benefits: Promoting the Miami Dolphins, current projects with fitness (e.g., Equinox Brickell) and allowing his following to partake in his experiences with him.

Follows: Dwyane Wade, Michael Phelps, Kevin Hart, LeBron James, Chad Johnson, Tony Hawk, Reggie Bush, Johnny Manziel, Kyrie Irving, Zac Brown Band, Darius Rucker, Matisyahu, Mike Evans and many more.

Alejandro Sanz 

International superstar, singer-songwriter and musician with 1.6M Instagram followers, 6M Facebook followers and 12M Twitter followers.  Sanz has won a total of 17 Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Awards. He is noted for his flamenco-influenced ballads, but has also experimented with rock, funk, electronic, jazz and many genres from Latin music. Because of Sanz’s Spanish heritage, he was inspired by his family’s flamenco roots and began to play guitar at 7 years old. By age 19, Sanz was making it big in Spain. With the use of social media today, Sanz is able to promote his music and tours constantly.

Preferred platform: Twitter

Subject matter: Promoting, tours, posting pictures of my concerts, and really just expressing my lifestyle to others.

Social media benefits: To promote one of his records, Paraíso Express, he started a campaign in which fans could create a video with their definition of paradise and upload it to his YouTube channel.

Follows: Carlos Vives, David Bisbal, Gloria Trevi, J Balvin, Marc Anthony, Paulina Rubio, Shakira, Thalia and more.

Dave Grutman

Dave Grutman, CEO and operating partner of Miami Marketing Group, has a following of 149K on Instagram. He is a noted nightlife figurehead and is credited as being one the most important figures in EDM due to the strength his top-ranked clubs LIV and Story wield. His influence and popularity was demonstrated by his celebrity-studded nuptials to model Isabella Rangel earlier this year. Grutman’s latest venture, KOMODO is a happening downtown restaurant he opened this year.

Preferred platform: Instagram

Subject Matter: His recent wedding and honeymoon, clips from his cameo in Deepwater Horizon and his adventures around the world. Whatever he’s doing, he’s always having fun.

Social Media Benefits: He can promote the bigger nights at LIV, such as the New Year’s Eve Skrillex

Follows: Domingo Zapata, Nick Jonas, Skrillex, Elle Macpherson, Luther Campbell, Jason Pomeranc, Hulk Hogan, Wilmer Valderrama, David Guetta and more

Brett David

The young and handsome owner of Prestige Imports, Brett David has a following of 131K on Instagram. Taking over the dealership at a tender age, David grew it to a top Lamborghini dealership worldwide. The entrepreneur invests in other endeavors and is constantly growing and evolving his company. It recently signed with Karma to sell the Revero, a luxury electric sports car.

Preferred platform: Instagram

Subject matter: Lambos, and David’s days both in and out of the dealership on exotic trips and at Heat games dominate his feed.

Social media benefits: Currently promoting his dealership with the hashtag #teamprestige.

Follows: Dwyane Wade, Corey Gamble, Gabrielle Union, LeBron James, Alessandra Ambrosio, Mark Cuban, Richard Branson and many others.

Loren Ridinger

Loren Ridinger is a serious entrepreneur. She is one of the co-founders of Market America, an internet retail marketing company. Ridinger works alongside her husband, JR Ridinger, who also cofounded the company. She has her own cosmetics line, Motives Cosmetics, as well as a skin-care line, Cellular Laboratories. The stylish Ridinger also figured out the social media game early and has acrued 322k Instagram followers and 452,000 Twitter followers. She also stays in tune with her followers through her personal blog, Loren’s World. Ridinger does charity work as well in her philanthropic wonders as she co-funded with Eva Longoria a charity foundation, Rally for Kids with Cancer.

Preferred platform: Twitter

Subject matter: Selfies with celebrities, including bestie Jennifer Lopez, inspirational quotes and Market America

conventions.

Social media benefits: Shortcuts to her online blog, Lorensworld.com, featuring beauty and style tips. Promotion of Motives, her makeup line available via Market America.

Follows: All the Kardashians, Larsa Pippen, Lisa Vanderpump, Chris Bosh, Hailey Baldwin, Tom Ford, Sofia Vergara, Brody Jenner, Donald J. Trump, Corey Gamble, Cara Delevingne, Cassie, Oprah, Kelly Rowland, Ryan Seacrest, David Grutman, Ivanka Trump, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Gabrielle Union, LeBron James, Drake, Miley Cyrus and many more.

Anna Kournikova

Retired professional women’s tennis player Anna Kournikova was equally known for her skills in front of the lens as on the court. Although she stopped playing in 2004 due to health problems, but she never quite left the public eye due to her relationship with Julio Iglesias’ most famous son, Enrique Iglesias. They became famously linked to Enrique Iglesias when she starred in his music video “Escape,” and have been together ever since. Kournikova has a following of 354K on Instagram. Facebook and Twitter? Not so much.

Preferred platform: Instagram

Subject matter: Kournikova’s Instagram looks real indeed. Rife with inspirational quotes, old photos and shots of her and her dog, it’s just like your friend’s pages—minus the magazine covers.

Follows: Enrique Iglesias, Andre Agassi, CNN, Time, Vogue Magazine, Louis Vuitton, Victoria’s Secret and more.