Monday, 10 October 2011

Selena.


Selena Quintanilla-Pérez often known as Selena, was an American singer-songwriter. She was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard, for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits. She was called "The Queen of Tejano music" and the Mexican equivalent of Madonna. Selena released her first album, Selena y Los Dinos, at the age of twelve.In June 2006, a Selena museum and a bronze life-sized statue (Mirador de la Flor were dedicated in Corpus Christi, Texas).
Selena is regarded as one of the most widely known Mexican-American vocal artists and most popular Latin artist in the United States. Selena entered Billboard's "International Latin Music Hall of Fame" in 1995. Selena's posthumous crossover album Dreaming of You debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, it sold more than 330,000 units in its first week, making her the first Latin singer to accomplish this feat. To date, Selena has sold over 21 million copies in the United States alone.Selena was pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m due to extensive blood loss and cardiac arrest, two weeks before her 24th birthday and two days before her third anniversary to her husband Perez.
After the stand-off with Saldivar came to its fourth hour, a strategy developed by the FBI helped Saldivar to confess that the shooting was intended for herself. During the sixth hour, Saldivar agreed to give herself up. However, a police officer was aiming a rifle at Saldivar, who then panicked and ran back to her pick-up truck. Saldivar finally gave herself up after keeping police at bay for nearly nine and a half hours.[9] By that time hundreds of fans had gathered at the scene, many of them weeping about Selena's death as police took Saldivar away.

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