Selena

Person · Open Library

Works

45

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1971-04-16

Active to

1995-03-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

842,877

Total plays

21,487,840

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 - March 31, 1995), known mononymously as Selena, was an American with Mexican heritage singer who is regarded as one of the biggest stars of the Tejano genre of music. She was born in Lake Jackson, Texas and grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she began her musical career. Her father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., was a singer with the original Los Dinos from 1957-1972, and nurtured the burgeoning musical t

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Recent publications · Crossref

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Quotes

• “As, not only as an entertainer but as a person who who cared a lot and I gave the best that I could and I tried to be the best role model that I possibly could and the best person I could I tried to help.”
• “The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.”
• “Music is not a very stable business. You know it comes and it goes, and so does money. But your education stays with you for the rest of your life and when you have that education and you have nothing fall back on you can go and get a job anywhere.”
• “You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”
• “We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.”
• “When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.”

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Wikidata facts

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