Tejano Selena Research Papers

Selena was born in Lake Jackson near Houston on April 16, 1971. She was the youngest of Abraham and Marcelle Quintanilla. Her father, Abraham started a band with his kid’s band and his wife after he heard Selena singing and he thought she was special. He thought she could make it into the music business. He made it into a family act so his whole family could be together. Selena began singing publicly at six years old, she sang with her family Tejano group. By the time she was 9 years old her signing became professional. She lead her family’s band, her brother A.B., who played the bass, and her sister Suzette, who played the drums, her future husband Chris Perez played the guitar. Abraham, Selena’s father, was their manger. Abraham opened a

By June 11, 1986, Selena y Los Dinos released the group’s third album, and their fame began to increase. 1986-1988 Selena won the Tejano Music Awards prize for female vocalist of the year for the first time and she captured the honor every year. In concert, Selena’s sexy bustiers and taunting and her pouty smiles earned her the nickname “the Tex-Mex Madonna.”

Mid-1991 Selena and Chris Perez, who had recently began playing guitar, they admitted they had romantic feelings for each other, and their relationship began. April 2, 1992 they got married. February 28, 1993 she played her first big show at Astrodome. She had a big crowd. There were almost 58,000 fans at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Every time she play the same concert she would have a bigger crowd each time. Selena begins to win awards from Billboard. (Quaintance

Selena went to Days Inn to go get the finical records and fire Yolanda but instead, she was killed. They got into an argument and Selena started to leave but before she could open the door, Yolanda shot Selena in the back. Selena ran out the room and to the lobby. Before she died she told the people who shot her. Yolanda Saldivar, the fan club president, was charged with murder. Selena’s fan was devastated and frustrated when they heard that she had passed. (Quaintance