Otis Redding

His sons Dexter and Otis II founded together with cousin Mark Locket the funk/disco-band "The Reddings" in the late 1970s. The movie is the basis from which Lopez rose to superstardom, while at the same it also served to introduce Selena and her music to an even wider audience. "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" became famous a year after his death in a plane crash in Wisconsin, along with The Bar-Kays, his back-up band. This fact was a bit of a controversy as Jennifer Lopez was a Puerto Rican playing a Mexican role. Later that year, Redding played at the massively influential Monterey Pop Festival. In 1997, Jennifer Lopez played Selena in the movie of the same name. One of his few songs with a significant mainstream following was "Tramp" (1967) with Carla Thomas. There is a museum to honor Selena's memory and a bronze life-sized statue of her on Ocean Drive in Corpus Christi.

Unusually for his time, Redding wrote many of his own songs, sometimes with Steve Cropper (of Booker T & the MG's). In October of 1995 a Houston jury convicted Saldivar of murder and sentenced her to life in prison, without possibility of parole. Pitiful", "I Can't Turn You Loose", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (The Rolling Stones song) and "Respect" (later smash hit by Aretha Franklin). That summer her album Dreaming of You, a combination of Spanish language hits and new English language tracks, debuted at #1 on the Billboard music charts in the US. The song became a hit, which was followed a few years later by "Mr. Numerous vigils and memorials were held in the singer's honor. The native of Macon, Georgia was working in the music business with Johnny Jenkins in the early 1960s, recording "These Arms of Mine". Selena's death shocked and saddened Tejano fans in Latino communities throughout the United States and in the north of Mexico (Selena was not particularly well known before her death either in Mexico City or in the southern region of the country).

Otis Redding (September 9, 1941 - December 10, 1967) was an influential American deep soul singer, known for his passionate delivery and his posthumous hit single, "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay", also one of his most respected tracks. Selena died at a local hospital at 1:05 pm, hours after she was shot. Pitiful". Selena agreed to meet Saldivar at a Corpus Christi Days Inn on the morning of March 31, 1995 in order to retrieve paperwork for tax purposes. At the motel an argument ensued over the embezzlement and Saldivar shot the singer once in the back. Download sample of "Mr. In 1995 the Quintanillas found out Saldivar had embezzled money from these ventures and decided to fire her. A woman named Yolanda Saldivar worked her way into the singer's inner circle, becoming president of Selena's fan club and manager of the boutiques.

She also dabbled in acting, making a cameo in the Johnny Depp film Don Juan de Marco. Boutique shops with the Selena name opened in Corpus Christi and San Antonio in the 1990s. Aside from her singing, Selena was an avid clothing designer. Her first language was English, not Spanish.

The greatest irony in Selena's musical career is that she became a star singing in her second language. She holds the record of drawing the biggest concert crowd in the history of the Houston Astrodome, for her February 1995 performance at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. In 1994, Selena won a Grammy for Best Mexican-American Album for Live. Even as Selena's career skyrocketed she remained very close to her family, choosing to live next door to them in Corpus Christi.

A romance budded between Perez and Selena, and the two married on April 2, 1992. Chris Perez replaced Roger Garcia as guitar player. The singer signed with Capitol EMI in 1989, and released several albums with that label, including 1994's wildly popular Amor Prohibido. She completed her education via correspondence courses.

She finished high school by mail and lived most of her life on the tour bus "Big Bertha". Throughout her adolescence Selena was constantly on tour. Selena made her first public appearance at her father's Mexican restaurant in Lake Jackson at eight and recorded her first record at nine. Its other two members who started in the band were Ricky Vela on keyboards and Roger Garcia on guitar.

Selena, her brother Abe III (bass), and their sister, Suzette (drums), were a second generation of Los Dinos. Her father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., was a singer with the original Los Dinos from 1957-1972, and nurtured the burgeoning musical talent of his children. Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas and grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she began her musical career. Selena Quintanilla Perez (April 16, 1971 - March 31, 1995) was a Mexican-American singer who is regarded as one of the biggest stars of the Tejano genre of music.