Transcript Selena Perez

Selena Perez
By: Cyndy Trinh
 Selena
Quintanilla Perez was born on
April, 16, 1971.
 At age 8, Selena worked singing at
bars, weddings, restaurants, fairs, and
such. The band she worked in was
called "Selena Y Los Dinos" formed by
her father, Abraham Quintanilla.
 When Selena was younger, she wasn’t
much into dolls, but she played
challenging games. You can say she
was a tomboy.
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Instead of having a normal childhood, her father,
a professional and experienced Musician and
ex-member of the original "Los Dinos" from the
nineteen-sixties, influenced Selena and her
three brothers to be dedicated Musicians.
 The Country/Tex-Mex band officially started in
1981.
 The band was considered to be the "family
business" of the Quintanilla family.
 This business was the main source they relied
on to put food on the table.
 In
the late nineteen-eighties Selena Y Los
Dinos gained popularity in the western
states, which by then Mexican immigrants
were more prominent in the United States
than ever.
 Because of her career, she stopped
attending school, which was bad.
 She continued her education on the road.
 At the 1987 Tejano Music Awards, Selena
won Best Female Vocalist
 In
1988, she released two albums,
Preciosa and Dulce Amor.
 In 1989, José Behar, the former head of
Sony Music Latin, signed Selena with
Capitol/EMI.
 He later said that he signed Selena
because he thought he had discovered
the next Gloria Estefan. Selena signed a
contract with Coca-Cola to become one of
its advertising spokesmen in Texas that
same year.
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In 1991, her duet with Salvadoran singer Alvaro Torres "Buenos
Amigos" (Good Friends) became her first number one song.
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Selena married Chris Perez, the lead guitarist of Los Dinos, on April
2nd, 1992.
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In 1993, she won a Grammy for Best Mexican-American
performance for her album Selena Live. Also in 1993, she began
designing and manufacturing a clothing line. She opened two
Selena Etc. boutiques; one in Corpus Christi and one in San
Antonio.
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On February 26th 1995 she played to over 65,000 fans at the
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in the Houston Astrodome. The
Last Concert, a DVD of her performance, was released September
2nd 2003.
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In 1995, she was murdered at age 23 at the Days Inn, Room 158, in
Corpus Christi, Texas.
Her Death
Taken on the 5 year anniversary of her
death.
Citations
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http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/selenabiography/a2442e73bb17ff4448256895002bdc45
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena
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http://www.selenaforever.com/
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=dfl&GRid=1460