Selena Gomez

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Background Information 

Birth Name:                      Selena Gomez

Born:                                July, 22, 1992

Genres:                            Pop rock, dance-pop, electro pop

Occupations:                   Actress, Singer and businesswoman

Instruments:                    Vocals, piano, guitar, drums

Years active:                   2002-Present

Labels:                            Hollywood

Associated acts:        Selena Gomez & the Scene Forever the Sickest Kids Taylor Swift

Selena Marie Gomez  (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress, singer, and businesswoman, best accepted for assuming Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television alternation Wizards of Waverly Place. She afterwards ventured into affection films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She fabricated her starring affected blur admission in Ramona and Beezus.

Her career has broadcast into the music industry; Gomez is the advance accompanist and architect of the pop bandage Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has appear two RIAA Gold certified flat albums, Kiss & Tell and A Year Without Rain and spawned two RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally" and "Who Says". As of April 2011, the bandage has awash 1,354,000 albums in the United States.Gomez has aswell contributed to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up afterwards signing a almanac accord with Hollywood Records. In 2008, Gomez was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Early life

Gomez was built-in in Grand Prairie, Texas. She is the babe of above date extra Mandy Dawn Teefey (née Cornett) and Ricardo Joel Gomez. Her ancestor is Mexican American and her mother is of bisected Italian descent. Regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez said: "My ancestors does accept Quinceañeras, and we go to the accord church. We do aggregate that's Catholic, but we don't absolutely accept annihilation acceptable except [that we] go to the esplanade and accept barbecues on Sundays afterwards church. Her bearing parents afar if she was 5 years old, and she was aloft as an alone adolescent by her alive mother. In 2006, Mandy remarried Brian Teefey. She is called afterwards Tejano accompanist Selena.In a 2009 account with People, Gomez mentioned that she developed an aboriginal absorption in acting from watching her mother adapt for and act in amphitheater productions. She becoming a top academy authority through homeschooling in May 2010.

Acting career (2002–06: Barney & Friends and aboriginal work)

Gomez began her acting career at age seven, arena Gianna on Barney & Friends. She after had accessory roles in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and the TV blur Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial By Fire. Gomez aswell starred in the television cine Brain Zapped.

In 2004, Gomez was apparent by the Disney Channel in a USA-wide scouting. Gomez appeared as a bedfellow brilliant on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and had a bedfellow actualization – that after angry into a alternating role – on Hannah Montana from seasons two to three. Gomez ahead taped two altered pilots that were spin-offs to two antecedent Disney series. The aboriginal one, What's Stevie Thinking?, was the aftereffect to Lizzie McGuire. Gomez played Stevie Sanchez, Miranda Sanchez's little sister. The added appearance was 

2007–09: Wizards of Waverly Place and rise to fame

In aboriginal 2007 Gomez was casting in the Disney Channel alternation Wizards of Waverly Place as one of the three capital characters, Alex Russo. The actualization premiered to an admirers of 5.9 million, acceptable a hit. Many account outlets began dubbing Gomez the next 'Miley Cyrus' causing some altercation and a appear 'feud'. Gomez antiseptic that there was no altercation and that she was flattered by the comparison, saying: "It's a little overwhelming, but I anticipate really, it's a compliment. She's acutely acutely successful, and I anticipate she's a admirable aerialist ... So getting compared to her, I was very, actual flattered."
In 2008, Gomez appeared in Another Cinderella Story, the direct-to-DVD aftereffect to the 2004 Hilary Duff film, adverse Drew Seeley. She aswell had a accessory voiceover role as one the Mayor's ninety-six daughters in Horton Hears a Who! which appear in March of that year. In April, Lacey Rose, of Forbes ranked Gomez as getting fifth on their "Eight Hot Kid Stars To Watch" list; and Rose declared Gomez as accepting been "a multitalented teen".
In February 2009, Gomez active on to brilliant as one of the two changeable leads in Ramona and Beezus, a blur adaption of the children's atypical alternation by Beverly Cleary. Gomez declared that she acquainted no burden in demography added developed roles: "I anticipate I’m absolutely acquainted of my admirers and I’m still just a kid myself. I wouldn’t do a role I don’t feel adequate accomplishing or that my admirers wouldn’t feel adequate seeing."
In June 2009, Gomez did a bedfellow actualization as herself in one adventure of best acquaintance Demi Lovato's Disney Channel television show, Sonny with a Chance, advantaged "Battle of The Network Stars". That aforementioned ages Gomez appeared alongside Lovato in the made-for-television Disney Channel movie, Princess Protection Program. The advertisement garnered 8.5 actor admirers becoming, at the time, the third a lot of watched Disney Channel Original Movie. One ages later, Gomez, forth with two casting associates of Wizards of Waverly Place appeared in a television three-way cross-over adventure with Hannah Montana and The Suite Life on Deck, advantaged Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana.
On August 28, two months afterwards actualization in Princess Protection Program, Gomez starred in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, a made-for-television blur based on the show. The blur premiered to an admirers of 11.4 actor admirers acceptable cable's No. 1 scripted advertisement of 2009 and Disney Channel's additional most-viewed blur premiere afterwards High School Musical 2. In 2010, the blur adjustment won Wizards of Waverly Place its additional after Emmy for "Outstanding Children's Program" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards over its television alternation analogue which had won in the aforementioned class at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.
 blue-blooded Arwin!, the aftereffect to The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, in which she played Alexa. Neither alternation was best up.