Selena Quintanilla lived only 23 years, but before her death she was already an icon of music and entertainment in America. Proud of her Hispanic ancestry, she always sang in Spanish, even in the United States. He showed at all times the pride he felt for his family and showed that with perseverance dreams are fulfilled, despite having to overcome innumerable difficulties. She had a life as short as intense, as she was not only a singer, but also an actress, model, businesswoman and fashion designer.
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971 in the Texas town of Lake Jackson. His parents, she Panamanian and him Mexican, had three children and together they formed one of so many happy and stable families of Hispanic origin established in America. Through the years, and thanks to the precocious talent of Selena, this one ended up becoming one of the most relevant figures of the Latin music with sales that surpassed the 60 million discs. Her success has made her one of the most accomplished Hispanic women behind Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.
Called the “Queen of Tex-Mex, Queen of Cumbia and Queen of Latin Music,” Selena was named the most influential and best-selling Latin artist of the 1990s by Billboard Magazine. Even today, she holds the record of being the only female artist to have five albums at the same time on her Billboard 200 chart.
The Tex-Mex is a musical style of the region conformed by the state of Texas and states corresponding to northeastern Mexico, a formula that Selena internationalized and whose successes continue to play today on Mexican radio stations and Hispanic America.
The musical inclination of Selena Quintanilla is due to her father, also a musician, who supported her at all times. Together with her brothers, Susette and Abraham, formed the group Selena and Los Dinos, who began acting in the restaurant that father directed and with which the future queen of Texas music began commercially at age 12.
The success accompanied so much to the minors from its beginnings that made possible in 1984 appeared its first disc, titled My first recordings. The race seemed so unstoppable that Selena continued and finished high school in the United States without attending classes, only by correspondence and distance.
Selena and Los Dinos enter adolescence participating in various shows until her life changes in 1989, when the Latin label EMI appears and her president sees her in one of her performances. When you discover your potential you hire it immediately.
That same year sees her first professional work, Selena, and practically from this album appears every year on the market a new album: Come with me, Enter to my world, Live …
Selena Quintanilla begins to emphasize not only by its music, but also by its character and convictions, since in spite of being an American woman who usually speaks in English, she sings in Spanish, as she taught her father when she was little.
However, not everything was easy, since in the 80s it was criticized and rejected several times for presenting itself singing Texan music, a genre only dominated by the men. Her popularity grew steadily after winning the Tejano Music Awards for best female vocalist in 1987.
As an icon of music, everything he said, carried or did in those years became a trend, with tops that recalled the bold style of Madonna. The success of Selena Quintanilla, the black-haired girl, grew steadily and in 1993 she got a Grammy for the best Mexican-American music album by Live. The following year he published his album Amor prohibido, which also became number 1 of the lists and in which they heard songs that became famous just after being published, like Bidi bidi bom bomy I have no more.
Selena then realizes her dream of triumphing in the world of the Texan song, dominated by men until then, and gets to enter Mexico as a true number one, something practically impossible for any singer in Texas.
After the success of Forbidden Love, Selena began recording songs in English and, despite her father’s refusal, in 1992 she married heavy metal guitarist Chris Perez.
In 1995 he enjoys his success when recording Dreaming of You, an album that sells more than two million copies, and with which stars a massive concert in the city of Houston. These are the last works of a career that include international successes like I could fall in love, a few years in which Selena also launches to the world of the fashion with its own brand of clothes and participates in telenovelas like actress.