Selena Quintanilla Analysis Essay Example

bus with all their musical equipment. They played everywhere they could, on streets, at weddings. Soon all the hard work paid off, Selena even said in some interviews that when she first started playing it was to put food on the table.

Selena recorded her first album in 1984 under the Freddie label. This album was not released just then and the original copies were bought by Abraham. However, the album was released in 1995 titled "Mis Primeras Grabaciones. " Because Selena was getting even more popular and the traveling to perform was interfering with school, Abraham pulled her out of school when she was in the 8th grade. Even though she was not attending school anymore, Selena earned a high school degree from a correspondence school in Chicago. In 1986, Selena's career really began to take off. Her second album, Alpha, was released then.

At the Tejano Music Awards, she took female Vocal of the Year. Another important event that happened in 1986 was she was discovered by two huge names in the Tejano music industry; Rick Trevilo, founder of the Tejano Music Awards, and Johnny Canales, an entertainer with one of the top Spanish television shows. In 1988, two more Selena albums were released, Preciosa and Dulce Amor. But it was in 1989 when Selena got her big break. That year, she signed with Capitol/EMI Latin label. By this time, Selena's concerts were drawing thousands of people and her band was expanding.

Pete Astudillo joined Selena Y Los Dinos and can be heard on such hit duets as "Yo Te Amo" and "Siempre Estoy Pensando En Ti". A. B. joined

Pete and wrote songs as "Como La Flor”. In 1988, Selena met a guitarist named Chris Perez, The Quintanilla family hired him to be in the band in 1990. When Selena's father first heard of the couple's idea of getting married he was very upset and fired Chris. But soon after that Selena and Chris decided to get married and her father accepted them and hired Chris back. Selena and Chris were married April 3,1992. In 1990, a fan approached Abraham with the idea of starting a fan club.

Her name was Yolanda Saldivar, her wish was granted, she was often referred to as Selena's biggest fan. Yolanda became a very close friend of Selena's, but later on, one of her worst enemies. Yolanda was stealing from them, on March 12, 1995, Selena fired Yolanda. On March 30, Selena went to where Yolanda was staying in Corpus, a Days Inn motel, to get the missing paperwork. When Selena and Chris got home that night, they found out that some of the papers were still missing. Early the next morning, Selena got up and went to face Yolanda again, there Yolanda told her she had been raped in Monterey, Mexico and needed to go to the hospital.

Being the kind person that Selena was, she took her. After about an hour, Selena and Yolanda returned to the motel and argued. Selena told her that she just couldn't be trusted anymore. At 11:48 am, Yolanda took out a gun, and fired at Selena, the bullet struck her in her right shoulder. With all her strength, Selena ran towards the lobby to get help, she collapsed

on the floor as the clerk called 911. Soon an ambulance came to take Selena to the hospital where she was pronounced dead at 1:05 PM.

News of Selena's death spread all over the world, Selena fans mourned the loss of their queen, the queen of Tejano music. Thousands and thousands of fans passed by her coffin. In July of 1995, her dream of crossing over into the pop market was accomplished. The first single released from her English album Dreaming of You, "I Could Fall In Love," instantly became a hit and was in heavy rotation all across the US. Dreaming of You instantly hit the charts at number one, if only Selena was here to see her dream come true. Selena will always be in the hearts of her millions of fans, she will never be forgotten.