Before coming to Full Sail University, I had encountered many obstacles. One in particular placed so much doubt in my mind and made me question if this was what I truly wanted to do, or who I wanted to become. Leave my family that is grieving over our loved one, or follow my dreams that my grandmother wanted to see being achieved? This was the hardest decision, each passing day tore me in two and knowing that both of you have doubts about this career choice, because you don’t see what it does and can do. What I’ve faced is similar to her, yet different as well this female artist started at the bottom and slowly worked her way to the top. This wonderful artist’s names is Selena Quintanilla-Perez. Selena Quintanilla-Perez had to go through a …show more content…
Having the pressure to be more of both the heritages inside your veins. What you have to overcome knowing that you are being criticized because you are mixed heritage and not a pure breed and because you may not know the language. Although having the talent, the dream and most of all the determination to follow your passion, people are looking down upon you because you are simply of mixed heritage. Ask yourself how would you have responded to all of this pressure, to everyone criticizing you for something you had no control over? Many would argue or fight their defense to show the people they are different. Selena was different instead she “relied on her effervescent personality, radiant smile ant interpreters to get by with Spanish-language” (Sutherland, 1995). Unlike many people Selena had found even though she didn’t know the language, that she wouldn’t be like the majority of the people who’ve judged her, as it was stated by Sutherland that during the Monterrey, Mexico interview “although Selena’s answers sounded ridiculous, she had won every reporter’s heart by hugging each one of them. As a result, they wrote kindly of her, declaring that she was an “Artist of the People.” (Sutherland, 1995). Showing that Selena is true to her words and action, but more importantly to her heart on how to approach matters with