Writing 3: Biography of an important person :)

Selena Quintanilla

·         Selena Quintanilla was a famous singers.

·         She was born in Lake Jackson, Texas.

·        She studied in The American School of Correspondence in Chicago, Illinois.

·        She started singing at the age of three; when she was nine her father founded the singing group Selena y Los Dinos, which she fronted.

·       In 1990, Selena released another album, Ven Conmigo, written by her brother and main songwriter A.B. Quintanilla. This was the first Tejano album recorded by a female artist to achieve gold status.

·       Selena released another album in 1992, Entre a Mi Mundo. Songs from that album, such as "Como La Flor", helped make Selena a star.

·      Selena released her next album, Amor Prohibido, in 1994. The album was nominated for another Grammy award for Mexican-American Album of the Year.

·      Selena and her band continued to receive accolades; Billboard's,  Premio Lo Nuestro awarded them six prestigious awards including Best Latin Artist and Song of the Year for "Como La Flor".

·      She died on March 31, 1995.

·    She died there from blood loss at 1:05 pm, two weeks before her 24th birthday. The cause of death was internal bleeding and cardiac arrest. Saldívar entered her red pickup truck, where she held police at bay while holding a gun to her left temple. She surrendered peacefully to the police after nine and a half hours.^[  By that time hundreds of fans had gathered at the scene, many of them weeping as police took Saldívar away.