Selena Quintanilla is an inspiration to many, too bad most people don't know her. Selena was a spanish artist born in corpus christi. Selena has movies,songs and even a Selena day to celebrate her beautiful life and unfortunate ending. Even growing up selena was inspiring. She is inspiring because she started singing when she was really little but knew that that's what she wanted to do. She started from the way bottom and worked her way up to the top by Learning spanish so she could sing it, devoting all her time too music and her family even lost there house when she was little due to the family spending too much money on gigs and instruments to pay the bills.She grew up on tour buses and traviling. The band started out as “Selena Y Los Dinos”. …show more content…
Since business was sky rocketing she hired a store manager, Yolanda Saldivar who also became Selena's best friend. Selena also was starting to record a spanish English album which is a big deal too tejano and ,mexican music artists. Her fan base was growing dramatically and so was the money. But nothing can be perfect. Her dad, Abraham, started to realize that he was missing money and records. Selena and her father went to Yolanda but pleaded guilty. One thing Selena has taught me was to always be kind to people.Yolanda was about to be fired for money embezzlement but,even though selena had felt betrayed and backstabbed she decided to met Yolanda in private to hear her out, maybe this was all a big misunderstanding, but it didn't go so well. On March 31, 1995 Yolanda brought a gun too there secret meeting and shot selena in the back. Selena dies from blood loss and cardiac arrest. The family was devastated. She never got to see her fame arise. Yolanda then had a 9 hour standoff with the cops when she hid in her car and cried with the gun to her head. Saldivar is eligible for parole in March 30 2025. Selena's family opened a museum for selena in corpus and a monument by the