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    Selena Quintanilla was an American singer born in 1971 in Texas to Hispanic parents. She began her musical career as a child singing with her siblings in her father's restaurant. Her debut album was released in 1984 and she went on to have a successful career in Tejano music, releasing several popular albums. Her career was cut short when she was murdered at age 23 in 1995 by the president of her fan club, who Selena had discovered was embezzling money from her.

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    Selena Quintanilla was an American singer born in 1971 in Texas to Hispanic parents. She began her musical career as a child singing with her siblings in her father's restaurant. Her debut album was released in 1984 and she went on to have a successful career in Tejano music, releasing several popular albums. Her career was cut short when she was murdered at age 23 in 1995 by the president of her fan club, who Selena had discovered was embezzling money from her.

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    Selena Quintanilla was an American singer born in 1971 in Texas to Hispanic parents. She began her musical career as a child singing with her siblings in her father's restaurant. Her debut album was released in 1984 and she went on to have a successful career in Tejano music, releasing several popular albums. Her career was cut short when she was murdered at age 23 in 1995 by the president of her fan club, who Selena had discovered was embezzling money from her.

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    Selena Quintanilla was an American singer born in 1971 in Texas to Hispanic parents. She began her musical career as a child singing with her siblings in her father's restaurant. Her debut album was released in 1984 and she went on to have a successful career in Tejano music, releasing several popular albums. Her career was cut short when she was murdered at age 23 in 1995 by the president of her fan club, who Selena had discovered was embezzling money from her.

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    Selena Quintanilla

    (Stage name Selena Quintanilla Pérez; Lake


    Jackson, 1971 - Corpus Christi, 1995)
    American singer. On April 16, 1971 Selena
    was born in the Texan town of Lake
    Jackson, one of the daughters of a happy
    and stable family of Hispanic origin
    established in the area. She was just a child
    when her father, who had been a musician,
    realized what a great voice she possessed.
    From then on she focused all her efforts on
    directing her life towards music. Selena's
    first steps as a performer date back to her
    childhood, when her father made her
    perform with her siblings in the restaurant
    he ran. This is how Selena y los Dinos was
    born, a group with which the singer made
    her commercial debut at the age of 12.
    Success accompanied the children from
    their beginnings and made it possible for
    them to release their debut album, Mis
    primeras grabaciones (My First Recordings),
    in 1984. It was the precocious beginning of
    a brilliant musical career that only death
    Dressed in tops reminiscent of Madonna's
    could stop. Selena entered adolescence
    daring style at the time and with songs that
    singing with her siblings and participating
    were typically Tejano but adapted to local
    in various shows until her life changed in
    audiences, Selena's success grew steadily. In
    1989. It is in that year when the Latin label
    1993 she won a Grammy for best Mexican-
    EMI emerges and its president, Behar, sees
    American music album for Live and the
    her in one of his performances while looking
    following year she released her album Amor
    for singers to incorporate to his label. He
    prohibido, which featured songs that became
    discovers her potential and decides to hire
    famous the instant they appeared: Bidi Bidi
    her. That same year her first professional
    Bom Bom and No me queda más, among
    album, Selena, was released. Practically
    others. Selena's success was shattered on
    from this album onwards, a new album
    March 31, 1995, when she was only 23 years
    appears on the market every year: Ven
    old. The president of her fan club, Yolanda
    conmigo, Entre a mi mundo, Live.... She is
    Saldívar, murdered her for financial reasons.
    an American woman and usually speaks
    Both lived in Corpus Christi and had known
    English, but curiously she sings in Spanish,
    each other for some time. Selena trusted her
    as her father taught her when she was a
    to run some of her stores, but her father
    child.
    realized she was ripping her off. After a series
    of problems and disagreements, the singer
    went to visit her that day to talk face to face
    and was shot in the back.

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