Welena Quintanilla Selena Informative Speech

Selena Quintanilla was a leader because she dominated the music world and managed to break barriers. She managed to step out of her comfort zone to make a change. She learned a new language to be able to make her dream. She dominated force and made a history in latino music. She was the first female Tejano singer to ever to succeed so much because of her music. After everything she did she opened the doors to other female latin singers and inspired most to push themselves

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.

Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, Selena sang Tejano music, a form of Mexican-American folk inspired pop music, and she became known to many as the “Queen of Tejano” for her efforts to popularize the genre. Selena became the first female Tejano artist to earn gold status (symbolizing sales of more than 500,000 albums) with her 1990 effort Ven

Selena Quintanilla, an American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer,was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. She was the youngest child of three. Her father Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., was a former Mexican American musician which helped him notice her musical abilities when she was six years old. He told People magazine, "Her timing, her pitch were perfect, I could see it from day one".[sic] In 1980 Quintanilla, Jr. opened his first Tex-Mex restaurant, where Selena and her siblings Abraham III bassist and Suzette Quintanilla drummer often performed. She later broke away from the band she formed with her siblings and launched her solo career. Many people called her the Queen of Tejano music, a style of folk music with

Lake Jackson, Texas was blessed to see the birth of what would be the Queen of Tejano Music on April 16, 1971. Born to Abraham Quintanilla and Marcella Samora and having two siblings by the names of Suzette Quintanilla, and Abraham Quintanilla III also known as A.B Quintanilla. When selena was the age of eight

3. Selena 's Spanish is seen as a potential problem for her in Mexico by her father.  Has anyone else ever felt their Spanish was being judged, by anyone anywhere?  Why do you think Selena was able to overcome this problem in Mexico?  Why was she so

The main character in the film “Selena” is a woman named Selena. Everyone else in the movie is a sub character that plays off of the role of Selena. The movie is about Selena’s life and the movie begins with her as a little girl and ends with her as a Mexican-American pop star loved by both the Mexican and American communities. Selena goes from being a young girl who’s band is compromised of her brothers and sisters to a mega star known by fans all over the world. As Selena became more successful she faced many obstacles in her career. First, Selena had to learn Spanish in order to sing in Spanish to connect with the Mexican community as her father felt she had the best chance to make it big if she tried to appeal to the Mexican community. Once she became a huge star with her Spanish singing music, she then did a crossover album in English, which helped to make her a pop star worldwide. Since Selena was Mexican-American, not Mexican, it was an obstacle for her to be seen as authentic by the Mexican community. Selena’s second big obstacle was that she was a woman. Mexico is traditionally a male dominant society and before Selena there had never been a Spanish singing female to evolve into a superstar. In the movie, Selena overcomes both of these obstacles and she does become one of the greatest

Selena Quintanilla was surrounded by loving people who helped jumpstart her career until the day she died. On April 16th, 1971 Selena Quintanilla was born to Abraham Quintanilla and Marcella Quintanilla in her hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena

She was called the queen of Tejano music. She was born April 16th, 1791 in

To help me understand and analyze a different culture, I watched the film Selena. The film tells the life story of the famous singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. Not only does it just tell personal stories from her life, it also gives insight to the Mexican-American culture. Her whole life she lived in the United States, specifically in Texas, but was Hispanic and because of that both her and her family faced more struggles than white singers on the climb to her success. Even though the film is a story about a specific person, it brought understanding into the culture in which she lived. Keeping in mind that these ideas that I drew about the Mexican-American culture is very broad and do not apply to every single person in the culture, there

I. Attention getting device: When most people think of how to honor the dead, right away they think of mourning but the indigenous people of Mexico had a different idea. Instead of mourning, they think of honoring the dead as a celebration with dancing, food, and reminiscing. The name of this celebration is called Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead in English.

could you Imagine what it would be like to grow up as a performer in a world that didn’t even except female Tejano singers? Can you imagine how much courage and work it would take to make it to the top? That’s was Selena Quintanilla Perez had to go through. Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 6th, 1971 to Abraham and Marcella Quintanilla. Abraham was a shipping clerk for a chemical company and Marcella was a housewife. Abraham being a well respected Mexican musician, who only sang English songs, and had his career ruined because of that. American people didn’t respect him because he was Mexican, and the Mexican people did not respect them because they sang English songs. By the time Selena reached age 10, it became very

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”).

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known as pop singer Shakira, rock and Latin music, is famous for all albums sold during his successful career. But that's not so important to her, the American singer has a foundation called "Bare feet" and a family that cares more than his fame. Shakira is considered a hero by being good, changing the world, and never give up. Shakira is a Latin singer, who is 38 and is married to professional football player Gerard Pique. They have two children, Milan, & Sasha Pique.

Introduction Selena Gomez is an American singer, model and actor from Grand Prairie, Texas. Born on July 22, 1992, Selena is currently best known for her former acting career as Alex Russo on the Disney show Wizards of Waverly Place, as well as her 2 albums and many songs, amongst those include, Hands to Myself, Same Old Love, Good For You, The Heart Wants What It Wants and Come & Get It. Continuing, she is a recognized model and a wanted figure by many people and businesses. Acting Selena was introduced to the entertainment industry when she was a little girl, watching her mother in various local productions.