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The Female Industry In Selena's Ordinary World

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Can you imagine how much courage and strength it takes to fight your way through a world where being a Tejano singer as a woman is unfathomable? Selena Quintanilla did just that, struggling through her hero’s journey fighting sexism, discrimination, and camouflaged betrayal to rise to stardom and persevere, paving a path of hope for the millions of women she inspired and becoming a beacon in the evolution of the female industry. Selena’s Ordinary world was with her family in her hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas right next to Houston where she was born on April 16, 1971 to her parents, Abraham Jr. and Marcella Quintanilla (“Selena Biography - life, family, children, parents, story, death, school, old, information, born, movie”). One of her father’s passions, music, led him to have created a band in the 1950s and 1960s (“Los Dinos | Discography”), which played traditional Mexican music mixed with early rock and roll songs and other themes such as western or country, the style …show more content…

She used it as her instrument to communicate with the world and cared for it diligently. She would unscrew it and take it apart, cleaning it with a toothbrush after every performance and putting it away gracefully (Contreras). In 1994 she bought an Electro-Voice RE410, which she used for her live concerts until she died in March of 1995. The Microphone is displayed in her museum in Corpus Christi, TX and is iconic, being known for the lipstick that is in Chanel Beauty's shade of Brick that is still on the microphone from the last time she used it, passing away before she was able to clean it again. This is known as Selena’s ‘Everlasting Kiss’. She also used the microphone as a symbol for her eternal love for her husband, Chris Perez, which was inspired by two kissing hearts with an S intertwined between them. Her microphone became iconic because it was much more than just a piece of equipment, it was her way to relate to and feel like one with the

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