Selena Quintanilla Thesis

Selena Quintanilla was such an amazing person inside and out more known as the queen of tejano music. She won the hearts of many people young and old in the little time she was here on earth. Blessing many people with her contagious smile, and positive upbeat attitude. Selena has always had where to pull from when it came to being musically talented. Her father Abraham Quintanilla played in a band called Los Dinos which means the boys in Spanish. He had to give his life up as an artist because he got married and had his first kid. Therefore he had to find a better support system for his family. So when he saw that Selena had talent he focused all his goals and dreams on her. Therefore selena had to make a lot of sacrifices and not live a normal childhood.

Selena practiced sing in Spanish and when she perfected it, she performed it. Selena started to become big, performing with her family all over. Her father Abraham being the manager they ended up meeting Chris Pérez, who was a very good guitarist. They considered Chris Pérez joining the

The main character in the film “Selena” is a woman named Selena. Everyone else in the movie is a sub character that plays off of the role of Selena. The movie is about Selena’s life and the movie begins with her as a little girl and ends with her as a Mexican-American pop star loved by both the Mexican and American communities. Selena goes from being a young girl who’s band is compromised of her brothers and sisters to a mega star known by fans all over the world. As Selena became more successful she faced many obstacles in her career. First, Selena had to learn Spanish in order to sing in Spanish to connect with the Mexican community as her father felt she had the best chance to make it big if she tried to appeal to the Mexican community. Once she became a huge star with her Spanish singing music, she then did a crossover album in English, which helped to make her a pop star worldwide. Since Selena was Mexican-American, not Mexican, it was an obstacle for her to be seen as authentic by the Mexican community. Selena’s second big obstacle was that she was a woman. Mexico is traditionally a male dominant society and before Selena there had never been a Spanish singing female to evolve into a superstar. In the movie, Selena overcomes both of these obstacles and she does become one of the greatest

Selena Quintanilla was surrounded by loving people who helped jumpstart her career until the day she died. On April 16th, 1971 Selena Quintanilla was born to Abraham Quintanilla and Marcella Quintanilla in her hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena

The talented singer was born on October 21, 1925, in the Santo Suarez neighborhood of Havana. Her singing talent was obvious even when she was young, but instead of pursuing

it. As we may or may not know, Selena was shot by the president of her fan

could you Imagine what it would be like to grow up as a performer in a world that didn’t even except female Tejano singers? Can you imagine how much courage and work it would take to make it to the top? That’s was Selena Quintanilla Perez had to go through. Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 6th, 1971 to Abraham and Marcella Quintanilla. Abraham was a shipping clerk for a chemical company and Marcella was a housewife. Abraham being a well respected Mexican musician, who only sang English songs, and had his career ruined because of that. American people didn’t respect him because he was Mexican, and the Mexican people did not respect them because they sang English songs. By the time Selena reached age 10, it became very

Gloria Trevi was born in Monterrey, Mexico February 15, 1968. By the age of twelve she left home to go to Mexico City to try to start a career in the entertainment industry. She earned her money by singing and dancing in the streets. In 1984 she met a guy named Sergio Andrade who later became her mentor. While being with Andrade she joined a band he had of all girls named “Boquitas Pintadas” (little mouths with lipstick). The band was influenced by Latin music. After a while Gloria decided to be a soloist. Which later she released her first album “Que Hago Aqui?” (What am I Doing Here?) in 1989. “Ever since I was seven I wanted

Many things that has effect the relationship of Teresa Palomo Acosta as she and her mother has. She learned that many things made her who she is as a poet. Teresa Palomo Acosta writes about herself and her life as a Mexican American, but her family,specifically the females, have the greatest influence on her poem such as “My Mother Pieced Quilts. As Teresa Palomo Acosta grew up, her relationship with her parents greatly impacts in her life especially her mother.

Guadalupe Victoria Yoli, better known as “La Lupe,” (Santiago de Cuba, December 23, 1939- New York, February 22, 1992), was a very unique, talented, scandalous and explosive woman, whose life and musical career has come to exemplify the paradox of fame and obscurity, wealth and poverty, glory and failure. In La Lupe’s documentary, she was depicted as an accomplished, egotistic, outrageous, and religious woman, who came to the United Stated after being asked by representatives of Fidel Castro to leave Cuba in 1959, as the result of her outspokenness and controversial behavior on stage. Not only she recorded more than eighteen albums, appeared in many television shows, accumulated a fortune, and conquered the American market singing in English and Spanish, but her unique voice and uncanny style made her “The Queen of Latin Soul.”

Selena’s talent was distributed to a larger audience and was no longer confined to the walls of the family business when Primo Ledesma, a disc jockey, who hosted a weekly Spanish-language radio show, drifted into Papa Gayo’s for a listen. Lesdema recorded Selena singing, telling her father, Abraham, that “she was going places” (Patoski 42). There were numerous responses and intrigues about the new voice that was played when Ledesma broadcasted the tape on his show the following day. The incident with Ledesma was the beginning of the fame Selena would come to know. After Papa Gayo’s was shut down due to foreclosure, the Quintanilla family went bankrupt as well. This hapless circumstance came to be the initiation of Selena’s musical career: Selena recounts, “Basically, my musical career started when my family went bankrupt, and had to resort to music for money” (Patoski 43-45). The Quintanilla children hit the road, performing throughout southern Texas as Selena y Los Dinos with their father Abraham as their manager. Their venues consisted of weddings, cantinas and honky-tonks, and even when the audience was less than ten people, the group never passed up an opportunity to perform; the family’s means of survival lied in those performances (“Selena”).

Selena peréz was born April 16 1971 in Lake Jackson, TX and passed away March 31 1995. As a kid Selena's dad has pushed her to be into music and made her play every night with her brother and sister. She didn't really like playing music at a young age, she would of rather went WOULD RATHER HAVE GONE outside and played ball. Selena's father knew she could be great and she had the singing talent, that's why he made her play every night. Even know Selena didn't want to keep singing every night she still did it for her father.

It's a great honour to have M.A.C collaborate with Selena’s name and he fans-FOR HER FANS.” “Growing up, I loved Selena’s music.” Demi Lovato said. ”I was really young when she passed, so I didn't know much about her until I got a little older.”

Celia Cruz was born Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso on October 21, 1925, in a working-class neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. She began singing professionally on Cuban radio and in nightclubs in the late 1940s while studying music theory and voice at a music academy in Havana from 1947 to 1950. In 1950, she began singing with the popular Cuban orchestra La Sonora Matancera. Over the next 15 years, their collaboration had many hit singles, which raised Celia to the top as she performed diverse Afro-Cuban music throughout the Caribbean, South America, and the U.S. While Celia’s career was placing her as one of the best singers on the island, the Cuban revolution was also beginning. The Cuban revolution was an

From a Texas sweetheart to an astonishing actress and artist, and it's all because of America's favorite purple dinosaur. Named after Selena Quintanilla, a famous singer, it was no surprise when Selena Gomez became a star. Selena Marie Gomez was born on July 22, 1992 in Grand Prairie, Texas to Amanda (aka Mandy) Cornett and Ricardo Gomez and grew up watching and helping her mother in theatre and grew a passion for acting which made her audition for Barney and Friends. She successfully landed the role of Gianna.