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Selena Quintanilla Perez was born to Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcela Quintanilla on April 16, 1971, Easter Sunday, in Lake Jackson, Texas. Her father was a respected Latino musician who performed with a local group called Los Dinos. By the time Selena was 10 years old, she began performing with them alongside her brother Abraham Quintanilla III and sister Suzette Quintanilla in the group Selena y Los Dinos. Even though Selena’s native language was English, she sang mostly in Spanish in a style known as Tejano. Selena y Los Dinos played everywhere that they could, streets, weddings, etc. Their hard work paid off and Selena recorded her first album in 1984 under the Freddie label titled “Mis Primeras Grabaciones”, “My First Recordings”. Her second album “Alpha was released in 1986. At the Tejano Music Awards, she took the award for Female Vocalist of the Year. Her career was really beginning to take off. In 1988, two more albums were released, “Preciosa”, meani...