Biography Of Selena Y Los Dinos

Final Paper I think in my opinion that Selena y Los Dinos which meant (Selena and the Guys) they were one of the best music groups to hit the United States and Mexico. Selena y Los Dinos was a family band that the dad put the band together with all his children. Abraham Quintanilla Jr. the father started the band in the year of 1980's. Selena's father opened up a Mexican restaurant on Jackson, Texas for his children band to perform. Then they started off playing any where they could play to get their faces out in the world. Selena y Los Dinos would sing and perform Tejano music. Selena y Los Dinos were signed with EMI Latin they thought it would be better if the album just said

I think they should have kept the whole bands name on the albums because before she got signed by EMI Latin the band sold over then 80,000 copies in just the state of Texas alone. Selena y Los Dinos sold that many albums with record labels named Tejano Labels CP, Cara Records, Manny and Freddie Records before the year of 1989. As, the band Selena y Los Dinos kept playing they removed the Los Dinos from their group name left it as just Selena to make all their fans happy. Growing up Selena would write music all the time and sing her own music. She wrote the song My Love and she always wanted it to be her first recording song which it came out in the year of 1989. Over the years Selena accomplished so much as a young child performer growing up as a Mexican American. One accomplishment Selena had to learn to make her people back home in Mexico to like her is to learn Spanish. Selena's father thought it would have took her longer for his daughter Selena to learn Spanish but she caught on quick to her native language. Selena was one of the first woman who could sing Tejano music it was well accept by Mexico. Selena was named as the queen of Tejano music. Selena in the

I was only three years old when Selena death happened I didn't know what was going on since I was a kid. I feel like growing up listening to her music made me feel like I was around in her time of preforming for people. Selena’s music can make you feel so happy inside and you can feel her beautiful presents in the room. Selena always seemed happy doesn’t matter what was going on in her life she was very joyful to people. That’s one thing Selena taught me to be happy and never show the world what your going through her life experience. I feel like growing up Selena helped me be who I am today because she taught me to be a strong independent woman like her. I feel Selena was young woman who just started her life she already touched many individuals life at the age twenty three. Selena made me feel I can do whatever I put my mind to and achieve my goals like she did. I look up to Selena because I think she was an amazing role model to have growing up. Selena and I are the same age right now when she passed back in 1995. I feel if she can achieve all those goals at this age I can do the same it made her my role model to look up to even more. I learned how her father Abraham Quintanilla Jr. pulled her out of school in the eighth grade and she went back to achieve her high school diploma. She was going to college before she died. I feel like we can