TLC: R & B Sisters

Serna contributed Chicano movement in Texas. She recalled her memory in 1969. She was born and raised at Crystal City, Texas. Her family only spoke English and her father worked as a migrate worker. She said, “Ninety-five percent of my high

Two women from two different backgrounds have so much in common yet they are so different. One grew up in Houston, Texas while the other grew up in Saint Michael, Barbados. Even though these two women have had very different up bringing the one thing they have in common is their great voices. These two women’s background, musical style, and other career ventures make them both two of the best female artist in their field.

In Sister of my Heart, a coming-of-age novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the two main characters, Sudha and Anju, are not aware of the secret that runs within their families. The act of keeping a secret is to purposely keep something hidden. Although telling the truth can help create a stronger and more honest relationship, in some cases, when the secret is revealed, it can have a negative effect. Sudha exemplifies this as the secret she keeps from Anju affects Sudha's life and her relationship with Anju.

The childhood of any individual is vital to preparing a person for their future. Taylor wasn’t born into a rich and famous family, she had to learn that one must work hard for what they have. It was that same drive she learned at a young age that lead to her incredible achievements later in life. Taylor

At Aaliyah’s funeral everyone is crying, sobbing, or they have this look like they just lost something they loved. Which was true because everyone loved Aaliyah, her voice, her character, her everything. Everyone’s watching her parents as they see their daughter for the last time. Missy Elliot sings a song and the press were shock at the famous guest who came to say their last goodbye’s, some of them being Jay-Z, R.Kelly, Diamond Dash, and many more. Aaliyah was one in a million and she left a mark on this world that can never be

This reality series not only made her popular, but also added a big amount of money to Tanisha Thomas net worth. The show pictures a group of women, having

“T-Boz” has suffered from a sickness called anemia ever since she was young. Her family moved to Atlanta when she was 9. She had a job as a hairdresser in Atlanta at 21 before getting accepted into ‘TLC’. (2)

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.

Smith was arrested back in 1999 when Thomas was just 11 years old. She and a friend was caught running a cocoaine business and was sentenced to over 20 years imprisonment.

In the first years of touring, the family sang for food and barely had enough money to pay for gasoline. Selena was discovered by Rick Trevi, founder of the Tejano Music Awards, where she won the Female Vocalist of the Year award in 1987 and for nine years in a row after. The band was often turned down by Texas music venues because of the members' ages and because Selena was their lead singer they didn’t like the fact that she was a girl. By 1988, Selena had released five more LP records; Alpha, Munequito de Trapo, and the Winner is... Preciosa, and Dulce

Selena was a singer not a criminal like trump would think if she was alive today. Selena Quintanilla is the youngest of three children. She was born on April ,16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, TX. Selena’s father and mother‘s names were Abraham and Maricela. Abraham was in a band when he was a teenager. When he grew up he made a band with his children. He would always tell them to practice. A.B. Quintanilla the third is Selena’s brother , he was the songwriter and producer for her music. Suzette Quintanilla was Selena's sister and she was the lead drummer.

Maria Isabel Trevino was born on January 31, 1976 in Los Aldamas, Nuevo Leon: she lived here for two months subsequent to when she was born. One day her dad, Benito Resendez, and mom, Andrea Resendez, and her older brother, Abel Resendez, crossed her in the car illegally because they needed to go to California to work in the fields and the process for her citizenship had just begun and there

When they first went on the road, one of her first acts was “Mazz, at the Angleton, Texas fairgrounds in 1983. Mazz was one of the most popular Tejano acts of the time and Selena, only eleven-years-old, took the stage by storm, putting on a show impressed the assembled crowd”(Gale 366). In fact, because she was more Texan than Mexican, English was her first language and she had to learn Spanish to sing many of her songs. The family, living in a van together, sang anywhere from fairgrounds to backyard weddings, gradually growing fans and fame.. They were also signed to many different labels, none of which sold very well for

Some people traveled thousands of miles to visit her house. Boutiques and the crime scene, while churches with large congregations of Latinos held prayers in her name. All major television networks in the United States interrupted their regular programming to break the news about the death of Selena. The public’s reaction to Selena’s death was compared to those that followed the deaths of John Lennon, Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy. Radio personality Howard Stern mocked Selena’s murder, burial by playing her music with gun shots in the back ground. Some white Americans were unaware of the singer and her popularity criticized the attention she and her murder received from both the media and the Latino community. On April 12, 1995, two weeks after her death the Texas governor George W. Bush declared her birthday Selena day in Texas. Some Americans were offended because Selena Day that year coincided with Easter.

Within popular culture today, objectified female bodies can be represented everywhere from advertising images to magazine covers, television, music and many more. Through these media institutions, we allow them to construct social identities in ways that allow us to understand what it means to be black, white, Asian, male or female etc. Within many popular culture mediums such as music, stereotypical representations of racially marked female bodies are often formed. Thus, these representations also have the ability to create stories about a certain culture. In music videos, it does not go unnoticed that women are portrayed as objects whose objectives are to pleasure men. In this paper, I will argue how racially marked female bodies are represented. This paper will mainly focus on how these racially marked women are depicted in the hip hop culture. To demonstrate this, I will draw examples by using award winning music videos by Nicki Minaj, R.Kelly, 50 cent to exemplify representations of the female body and how they are objectified as sex objects. In conclusion, we will be able to see how the female bodies are used in mainstream hip hop videos to convey seductively.