'Selena' is a film based upon the life and tragic death of the singer the Mexican-American Selena Quintanilla-Perez. The young singer was a musical trio 'Selena Y Los Dinos' with her two older siblings and managed by their father. The children were made to practice singing, dancing and performing from a young age as their father soon realised their potential and push them to achieve what they really wanted. As the children became of age they started to tour as a family around Mexico where they quickly became popular with the locals of each town. The group eventually made it on the radio and released many albums with Selena's older brother Abie composing and producing many of the songs whilst Suzette continued to play the drums and Selena sing. The musical trio's group was almost disbanded when Selena went against her father's strict wishes and married the lead guitar player of the group Kris Perez. The family were soon reunited with Kris being welcomed into the family by the man that had initially said he did not want him in the group. Selena Y Los Dinos were doing so well that they opened up a boutique and were selling memobrillia to her fans. Having appointed Yolanda Saldivar to take care of the finances for both the family thought they were going to able solely focus on the trio's career but they were soon to find out that Yolanda was robbing them. When confronted by Selena, Suzette and Abraham(Selena's father) she proclaimed that she had not stolen the missing documents and money but would infact find them. As Selena solely meets to collect the documents from Yolanda she turns a gun on her and shots her. Fatally wounding and murdering the young promising singer. Selena
"I've been thinking about the crossover tour a lot. I've even had dreams about it. It's just this whole different world for us, you know? We've been working for this ever since we were kids. I guess I'm a little scared... "
'Selena' is a film based upon the life and tragic death of the singer the Mexican-American Selena Quintanilla-Perez. The young singer was a musical trio 'Selena Y Los Dinos' with her two older siblings and managed by their father. The children were made to practice singing, dancing and performing from a young age as their father soon realised their potential and push them to achieve what they really wanted. As the children became of age they started to tour as a family around Mexico where they quickly became popular with the locals of each town. The group eventually made it on the radio and released many albums with Selena's older brother Abie composing and producing many of the songs whilst Suzette continued to play the drums and Selena sing. The musical trio's group was almost disbanded when Selena went against her father's strict wishes and married the lead guitar player of the group Kris Perez. The family were soon reunited with Kris being welcomed into the family by the man that had initially said he did not want him in the group. Selena Y Los Dinos were doing so well that they opened up a boutique and were selling memobrillia to her fans. Having appointed Yolanda Saldivar to take care of the finances for both the family thought they were going to able solely focus on the trio's career but they were soon to find out that Yolanda was robbing them. When confronted by Selena, Suzette and Abraham(Selena's father) she proclaimed that she had not stolen the missing documents and money but would infact find them. As Selena solely meets to collect the documents from Yolanda she turns a gun on her and shots her. Fatally wounding and murdering the young promising singer.
'Selena' is a film based upon the life and tragic death of the singer the Mexican-American Selena Quintanilla-Perez. The young singer was a musical trio 'Selena Y Los Dinos' with her two older siblings and managed by their father. The children were made to practice singing, dancing and performing from a young age as their father soon realised their potential and push them to achieve what they really wanted. As the children became of age they started to tour as a family around Mexico where they quickly became popular with the locals of each town. The group eventually made it on the radio and released many albums with Selena's older brother Abie composing and producing many of the songs whilst Suzette continued to play the drums and Selena sing. The musical trio's group was almost disbanded when Selena went against her father's strict wishes and married the lead guitar player of the group Kris Perez. The family were soon reunited with Kris being welcomed into the family by the man that had initially said he did not want him in the group. Selena Y Los Dinos were doing so well that they opened up a boutique and were selling memobrillia to her fans. Having appointed Yolanda Saldivar to take care of the finances for both the family thought they were going to able solely focus on the trio's career but they were soon to find out that Yolanda was robbing them. When confronted by Selena, Suzette and Abraham(Selena's father) she proclaimed that she had not stolen the missing documents and money but would infact find them. As Selena solely meets to collect the documents from Yolanda she turns a gun on her and shots her. Fatally wounding and murdering the young promising singer. 