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The reaction in Latino communities to the tragic murder of Tejano singer Selena is often compared to the reactions to the deaths of Elvis Presley and John Lennon. ... Selena was sometimes thought of as the Latina Madonna because of her sexy stage performances. ...
Selena Quintanilla-Perez was born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 16, 1971 on Easter Sunday. Her parents, Marcella and Abraham Quintanilla Jr. already had two children; Abraham Quintanilla III (A. ... Selenas father, Abraham Quintanilla, had always had a passion for music and in the late 50s and early 60s he was part of a local singing group named Los Dinos meaning The Guys. ... Selena feeling left out of the family act, began to sing to her father to prove to him she should also be included. ... So at just 3 years old Selena began her singing career. By the time Selena was 6, she was already singing in English and in Spanish alongside her brother, sister, and father. When she was 9, Selenas father organized the family band into what would eventually be known world wide as Selena Y Los Dinos.
The groups first performances were in Papagallo’s, the Quintanilla familys mexican restaurant, which was opened in 1980. ... But when the restaurant failed, the Quintanilla family went bankrupt. ...
It all paided off when Selena made her recording debut in 1983 while appearing on a popular radio show in L. ... (1) After that Selena recorded her first album in 1984 under the Freddie label. ... " Because Selena was getting even more popular and traveling to perform was getting in the way of school, her father pulled her out when she was in the 8th grade. Even though she was not in school anymore, Selena earned a high school degree from a correspondence school in Chicago. ... At the Tejano Music Awards in 1985, she took Female Vocalist of the Year, in 1986, things really started to come together after Selena was discovered by two huge names in the Tejano music industry; Rick Trevi, founder of the Tejano Music Awards, and Johnny Canales, an entertainer with one of the top Spanish television shows.
Approximate Word count = 1595
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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