Selena The Super Star

Selena The SuperStar

Selena Quintanilla Perez Is a famous Latin and Pop singer from Lake Jackson Texas. Selena was born on April 16th 1971.She is the youngest child of Abraham Quintanilla and Marcella Ofelia Samora. At age nine Selena's father begain a singing grop with his children called Selena y Los Dinos (Selena and the Guys). Selena's family had owned a restraunt but soon went bankrupt.

The family relocated to Corpus Christi, Texas where the family peformend anywhere they could. In 1989 Selena was signed with Capitol Records. During The early 90's Selena's alblum Entre a Mi Mundo (Enter my World) boosted her career with the hit single Como La Flor. At the 36th Grammy Awards Selena won a grammy for her alblum ''Selena Live. In 1994 Amor Prohibido ''was releaed and was nominated for a Grammy award.

Selena oppend two clothing stores in Corpus Christi and San Antonio. Yolanda Saldivar a good friend of Selena was hired to run the Botiques and the fan club they had started. In summer of 1995 Selena relased her English language alblum called Dreaming of You. It was a hug hit in the english speaking community in the US. Selena then begain The Dreaming of You tour later that year going to places such as the north of The United States and Canada.

In 1997 Selena made her first Europen apperence in Spain and continued to France, The United Kingdom, and Germany for the European leg of her Dreaming of you tour. After a year of touring Selena went back to Texas to spend time with her husband Chris. In 1999 Selena performend with her band in Time's Square for Dick Clark's Rockin New Years Eve for ''ABC 2000 Today. ''In 2000 Selena released a new alblum containg both new music and unreleased music from the early 90's. Selena Begain her fourth tour in 2002 traveling to places like Asia, Australia, India, The Middle East, Africa and Central Eastern Europe.

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami Selena performend a concert to raise money to donate to charities who were aiding the affected countries, she did the same thing after the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. In 2007 Selena released a new alblum along with a fashion film. In 2008 Selena went to Milian Italy to open a botique featuring her own clothing desighens. The store was very popular and a second one opend up in Rome.

In 2009 Selena had decided to take a short break from her career with her husband Chris and there four children. Two years later Selena had joined up with Lady Gaga during the last tour date of The Monster Ball tour in Mexico City to sing a few spanish songs with Gaga on the piano. She also joined with Katy Perry during her Mexico dates for The California Dreams Tour. As of 2012 Selena has released a new alblum and a new tour. She is one of the most famous people of our time.