Her album ‘Selena’ peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Regional Mexican Albums chart and became her first recording to debut on a national music chart. Her brother, A.B., also joined Selena in her musical career and became her principal record producer and songwriter. The song ‘My Love’ was written by Selena and was included in the album. On October 17, 1989, Selena released her self-titled debut album. After she died in 1995, the Los Dinos was disbanded. After signing as a solo artist, she began making music with her own name, but the band ‘Los Dinos’ remained with her in concerts. Her father chose EMI Label because of the potential for a crossover album. In 1989, Jose Behar of EMI Latin Records and the then head of Sony Music Latin wanted to sign Selena as a solo artist. The band released its last album ‘Dulce Amor’ in 1988. The band then released the albums: Munequito De Trapo (1986), And The Winner Is… (1987), and Preciosa (1988).
While performing, they were discovered by GP Production in 1987 and released their second album ‘Alpha,’ also their first album to be released without legal actions or threats.
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In 1984, the band recorded its first album ‘Mis Primeras Grabaciones.’Īfter its release, Freddie Records told them that they were not yet ready to have the professional release of their albums. Selena and Chris lived in an apartment in Corpus Christi until her father accepted them both.ĭuring that time, Selena’s popularity soared and she was signed with Freddie Records, a Texas-based label. Within a few hours of their marriage, the news about their elopement circulated. Her marriage took place at Nueces County Courthouse in 1992. They dated each other in secret and on April 2, 1992, Selena and Chris decided to elope in a belief that their relationship will never be approved by her father, and once married, he (her father) would have to accept them. Her mother was in the favour of their relationship. Their relationship was exposed by her sister and her father declared that they were no longer dating. However, they hid their relationship, fearing that her father would try to break it up. At a Pizza Hut restaurant, they both confessed their feelings for each other and came into a relationship sooner. Chris wanted to distance himself from her but couldn’t do that and decided to pursue her. In 1989, Chris Pérez, a musician and songwriter, joined her band ‘Selena y Los Dinos’ and started having romantic feelings for Selena during a trip with the band, even when he had a girlfriend in San Antonio. Selena Quintanilla’s Siblings with her Wax Statue Relationships & Husband Her father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., is a former musician, and her mother’s name is Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla (née Samora). CNN Forbes She was raised a Jehovah’s Witness. Her father is a Mexican American and her mother had Cherokee ancestry. TSHA – Selena Profile Physical Appearance She was accepted at Louisiana State University and enrolled at Pacific Western University from where she did her majors in Business Administration in correspondence. At the age of seventeen, she completed her schooling at the American School of Correspondence in Chicago. When she was in class 8, her father took her out of school. Marilyn even threatened her father that she would report her father to the Texas Board of Education. When her teachers, especially Marilyn Greer, disapproved of her musical career as there was a lot of pressure on her (being a child). They began performing at various venues and as her popularity (as a singer) grew, it began interfering with her education. Her father formed a band in which she was a lead vocalist.
When she was a child, she used to sing with her siblings at her father’s Tex-Mex restaurant ‘PapaGayos.’ The following year saw the closing of the PapaGayos due to the recession caused by the 1980s oil glut, and her family had to declare bankruptcy her family left their home and settled in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she studied at West Oso Junior High School. She did her elementary schooling at Dallas’ Oran M Roberts Elementary School.
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