Bieber And Selena Research Paper

Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, the youngest sibling of 3, the others being Suzette and AB Quintanilla. Her parents are Abraham Quintanilla and Marcella Samora. Her father used to be a singer for a trio named the “Dinos”, but they faced discrimination and racism because they were mexican. Selena first started singing at 6 years old, when her father discovered that she had perfect pitch and was very talented. Abraham then started teaching his children to become a band, with Suzette playing the drums, AB playing the guitar, and Selena singing.

She also attended in West Oso Junior High in Corpus. She then graduated in 1989 in a correspondence school for artist and enrolled at Pacific Western University as a correspondence student taking business classes. Selena’s whole career began when she was little. She saw her older brother and sister play the instrument and she felt left out so that's how her whole singing career began.

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

Unfortunatly after the Texas Oil Bust of 1981, the restaurant went bankrupt and had to be shut down. So Abraham bought a bus and “Selena Y Los Dinos” began to tour the Texas countryside. At age 13 Selena had to leave 8th grade and start taking high school correspondence courses by mail. Selena sang almost exclusively Spanish. She sang a Tex-Mex pop called Tejano. They made there first recording in 1984, slowly people started to notice and love Selena, but by her being a female Tejano performer, no one thought she would actually last, because the Tejano industry of music was ruled over by men, and although many women had tried, they rarely made it to stardom. Little did they know that “Selena Y Los Dinos” would climb the charts and end up being the top Tejano band in the country. It was in 1987, that they really started to make it to the top. All the recording and touring throughout the 80’s finally paid off, because in 1987 “Selena y Los Dinos” came to national attention, when Selena won a Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist and Performer of the Year. It was a great accomplishment for a 15 year old girl. Until then the two categories didn’t even exist. Her fame was definitely being brought to the Latino communities, but Selena wanted more. In 1989, Selena and her band were signed to EMI, also known as Capitol Records, releasing there album a year later. Over the next few years

Justin Bieber’s first EP “My World” reached number six on the Billboard 200 album chart and sold over a million copies. His first number one on the billboard hot 100 was his hit song “What Do You Mean.” Bieber earned a Guinness World Record for being the youngest male artist to be on the top of the Billboard 100 chart. There is this organization called “Pencil of Promise” which Justin Bieber is involved in. This organization is to help build schools around the world. They also try to increase education opportunities. Justin Bieber and other celebrities raise money for them. Every concert ticket you get for Justin Bieber he gives a dollar to the organization. Justin Bieber won his first Grammy at age 21 for his song “Where are you now” for best dance recording. When he was only 16 years old he sold out Madison Square Garden in 22 minutes for his first tour “My World.” For the week of December 5th 2015, 17 of Justin Bieber’s songs were on the Billboard hot 100 chart. That’s the most songs an artist has placed on the chart. The record used to be 14 songs by The Beatles but Justin Bieber beat the record. Justin Bieber was signed with Calvin Klein to model for them in 2015 which led to his comeback in 2015

Chris was never close to Selena the only interaction he has with her was on stage when he played the guitar. The most interaction he had with her was talking to her to know what songs and they were going to be performed. On the trip back from Acapulco Selena sat next to Chris and held his hand when he was 'freaking out' because he was on an airplane.

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 Quintanilla was the daughter of Marcela and Abraham Quintanilla, Jr. She was born April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena was the youngest out of three children. Her older siblings were Abraham III, and Suzette. Selena’s father discovered her talent one day while he sat in the living room playing the guitar and she came over and began to sing. Her voice was pure and perfect. “I could see it from day one”, her father said. Selena’s father quit his job in the plant he worked for and opened a restaurant where Selena performed every weekend with her brother and sister calling themselves “Selena y Los Dinos”. The restaurant went down after the Texas oil bust, putting Texas in a recession. Selena and her family then started touring all over Texas and the US performing at weddings and honky tonks.

Her dad, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., was a vocalist with the first Los Dinos from 1957-1972, and sustained the blooming musical ability of his kids. Selena, her brother AB (bass), and their sister, Suzette (drums), were a second era of Los Dinos. The band’s other two members were Ricky Vela on keyboards and Roger Garcia on guitar. When Selena was only 3 years of age, she requested to know why her dad was leaving her out of the music. Abraham basically said she was too young.

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.

The first years of touring her family sang for food and had barley no money for gas. In 1992 she took a break from everything to marry her husband Chris Perez. Chris was part of their Band “Selena y Los Dinos”. Her father didn’t want her to get married to Chris. But Selena was so in love with Chris that they ran away and got married. When they were driving back home from getting married they heard the music channel said congrats to Selena Quintanilla and Chris Perez for getting married. Selena told Chris that they had to give it time and the next day they went and told her father and he welcomed his new son –in- law to the family. Selena was so glad to see her father accept him in to the

When Selena was breaking concert attendance records at home and abroad, there weren't a lot of crossover pop stars who looked like her in the United States.

Selena Quintanilla’s music was inspired by a lot of people before she came around and then inspired a lot of people that came after her. She began just playing in her family band at her father’s restaurant on the weekends. Her father had always had the dream of being a musician but it never worked out for him and due to that he really wanted his children to be more successful in that industry than he was. As soon as Selena started singing people started recognizing the fact that she had some serious talent. People started showing up more on days that she would sing and they decided to start booking gigs around the state.

Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, and was the youngest child in her family. Her father realized her musical talent when she was about six years old, and after a while their family formed a band. With A.B. Quintanilla, her brother, playing the guitar, and Suzette Quintanilla, her sister, on the drums they

Selena was known as Selena Quintanilla until April 2, 1992 when she married her lead guitarist and became Selena Pérez. Her husband’s name was Chris. In the movie, Chris plays the “bad boy” who tries to act tough to hide his feelings. When Selena meets him, they instantly fall for each other. Chris didn't know how to speak Spanish until Selena started speaking to him in Spanish which inspired him to learn it also. In Selena’s music video for her song “Amor Prohibido” she actually wore a few of her husband’s shirts as costumes. Toward the end of her life, her and Chris talked about having children but her career was too busy. It was always her dream to become a mother. She wanted to have five children.