Selena Quintanilla a Gifted Icon

When I was a little girl, I was a big sports devotee of Selena Quintanilla. I had all her melody, disks and posters all over my room. My dream was to meet her in person and it came true when I assisted one of her concerts. I knew everything most her take down though I was 4 sequence old. She was a role model for me, she was family oriented and she is still today living in my memory. I memorized every song of hers word by word, and I would imitate her dancing all day long. As a little girl I could not understand why someone would have wanted to take her life away when she was a good person.Selena Quintanilla is considered to be one of the most popular and influential Hispanic symphony icons of all times because of her history, culture, and all the people she influenced with her charisma. Selena Quintanilla in her early years was a girl who had the spirit to believe in a dream, blessed by being born in a medicamental family. Quintanilla was a Mexican-American lectureer bor n in Lake Jackson, Texas, where her musical career began. Her father Abraham Quintanilla was the greatest influence and breathing in in her music career (). Mr. Quintanilla stimulated the musical talents in all his children, teaching them to play instruments and sing in Spanish. Selena Quintanilla made her first performance at the age of 8 in the year of 1980 at her fathers Mexican restaurant (PapaGayo), and recorded her first record at 9(). Through her adolescence years she was mostly on the tour bus Big Bertha. Everything was not a bed of roses, her reading was probably the hardest she had to accomplished. Her father made her dropped from regular school education permanently when she was in 8th grade.His major concern was to give her the opportunity to concentrate and devote more time to music. Selena Quintanilla in order to perform the music with her family on long trips crossing the states was forced by the nature of the music venture to complete her high school diploma throug h the American take in Chicago, Illinois by mail(encyclopedia supplement/library vcc)and this was the way she earned her general education diploma(GED) in 1989. She enrolled at Pacific Western University as a equalizer student taking business classes(contemporary/vcc library).Quintanilla had a love life like any different girl. The singer fell deeply in love with guitar player Chris Perez. This relationship led the singer to a very troubled life and finally her family accepted him because they realized he made her happy. The Queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla had multiple talents. Since the age of 8 she was a vivacious entertainer. Her passion for music took her to the stage of being one of the most recognized Latino singers in the United States.Her ability to sing in a sexy and charismatic way made her an idol of the American and Latin markets. Throughout her short life filled with success Quintanilla was a singer, song writer, record producer, and to add to those multipl e talents she also dabbled in acting, making a cameo in a romantic comedy in the freedom fighter Deep Film Don Juan de Marco. She also danced at the stage making her performance more appealing to the audience. Included among other qualities she enjoyed to design her own clothes.Her comical way of designing her own bustier earned her the nickname of The Mexican Madonna(BD). Among her career successes as a singer vocalist it is obvious why she got so famous, she was hooked on music and her passion for it brought her success, music was in her heart. In 1982 the family band moves to Corpus Christi, Texas and the Tejano music flourishes making Quintanilla a Tejano music star. Her first record phonograph album was Ya Se Va the second album was The New Girl in Town in 1985 Alpha and Munequito Ea Trapo in 1986.Also in 1986 Quintanilla was discovered by dickens huge names in the tejano music industry, Rick Trevi, founder of The Tejano Music Award, and Johnny Canales, the host of one of the top Spanish television shows. She won the tejano music award for female entertainer of the year in year of 1987, and in the same year the female vocalist of the year and performer of the year honors at the yearly Tejano music awards. Other awards follow, in the late 1980s Quintanillas was known as La Reina de la Honda Tejana (The Queen of Tejano Music).Her popularity attracted her with annual awards and a buzz off EME Latin Records in 1989. The band attracted 11,041 people, more than Clint Black, George Straight, Vince Gil and Reba McIntyre. All of Quintanillas efforts pay of quickly. Her band reaches their popularity to the highest peak in 1993 with Entre a mi Mundo making Quintanilla the first tejana to carry on more than 300,000 albums. In 1993 she signed with SBK Records to produce an all-English album, and eventually replaced with the bilingual Dreaming of You.The record Dreaming of You sold 175,000 copies on its first day of release, making its submission number one on billboard magazine pop chart. Also in 1993 Selena Live received a Grammy Award for best Mexican album (notable Hispanic American women). The song Fotos y Recuerdos reached the top ten on Billboard magazines Latino charts. By 1995, Bidi Bidi Bon Bon won the singer a song of the year award at The Tejano Music Award, making her the winner of an additional 5 more awards, including Female Entertainer, best female vocalist, album of the year, record of the year, and tejano crossover song.Quintanilla quoted, Never in my dreams would I have thought I would become this big. I am still freaking out. (notable Hispanic, 5) She was recipient for ten succeeding(prenominal) years of the Best Vocalist award. Quintanilla becomes a millionaire By the year of 1995 Selena Quintanilla had become an icon in the Hispanic community, a beloved figure to whom Mexican-Americans attached their aspirations and their feelings about their cultural identities. Her music crossed cultural boundaries touching the li ves of young and old.She will be remembered in the years to come by her fans for her kindness, her positive attitude and the grand music she made. The American and Spanish speaking Western Hemisphere markets had been influenced by Quintanillas music were she took the Tejano music into new stylistic realms. Her death has perpetuated and immortalized her image for rising generations. The queen of tejano will live forever in the peoples heart(SME). Quintanillas death shocked Latinos and non-Latin across the United States.She was cried by thousands of fans who rendered the Queen of Tejano music the last goodbye in the Friday she died this day will always be known as black Friday, March 31, 1995 (IP). Her body was displayed at the Bayfront Plaza in Corpus Christi. Two weeks after her death Governor George W. Bush declared Selenas Day in Texas(biography based ). The violent death of Selena by Yolanda Saldivar, her fan club president, compares to the grief to the one experience by Americ an people after the death of such major cultural figure as electric chair John F. Kennedy.Quintanilla became immortalized after her death. In conclusion, Quintanilla influenced millions of people around her from young to old, including g me. Everyone has been able to know Quintanillas history and appreciate what she was as a person to her people. I understand what her family went through at the time of losing their Selena. I also recognize that as a human being she was like any other person with troubles and economic problems. I can related to her as a person now that I have learned as about her as a cultural icon. Sometimes we just have to go with the short but successful happy life.