Birth name :Selena Marie Gomez
Date of Birth :July 22, 1992 (age 18)
Place of Birth : Grand Prairie, Texas, U.S.
Website : selenagomez.com
Genres: Pop rock, dance-pop, electropop
Occupations: Actress, singer-songwriter, musician, fashion designer
Instruments : Vocals, Drums, Piano, Guitar
Years active: 2002–present
Labels : Hollywood
Associated acts :Selena Gomez & the Scene
Selena Gomez Family
Father : Ricardo Gomez
Mother : Mandy Teefy (nee Cornett)
Relationship : justin Bieber
Early life
Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas.She is the daughter of former stage actress Mandy Teefey (née Cornett) and Ricardo Joel Gomez.Her father is Mexican American and her mother is of Italian descent.Regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez said: "My family does have Quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church. We do everything that's Catholic, but we don't really have anything traditional except [that we] go to the park and have barbeques on Sundays after church."Her birth parents divorced when she was five years old, and she was raised as an only child by her working mother. In 2006, Mandy remarried Brian Teefey.She is named after Tejano singer Selena.In a 2009 interview with People, Gomez mentioned that she developed an early interest in acting from watching her mother prepare for and act in theater productions.She earned a high school diploma through homeschooling in May 2010.
Selena Gomez Career
Her career began at 7 years old when she playing Gianna on Barney & Friends. As guest star on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, 2007 Gomez was cast in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place, 2008, Gomez appeared in Another Cinderella Story
Filmography
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, 2005 Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire, 2006 Brain Zapped, 2008 Another Cinderella Story, 2008 Horton Hears a Who!, 2009 Princess Protection Program, 2009 Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, 2009 Arthur and the Vengeance of Maltazard, 2010 Ramona and Beezus, 2011 Monte Carlo, 2011 Thirteen Reasons Why[, 2011 The Muppets, 2011 Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie 2
Selena Gomez song
2006 “Brain Zapped”, 2008 “Cruella de Vil”, 2008 “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”, 2008 “New Classic” (featuring Drew Seeley), 2008 “Bang a Drum”, 2008 “New Classic” featuring Drew Seeley, 2008 “Fly to Your Heart”, 2009 “One and the Same, 2009 “Everything Is Not What It Seems, 2009 “Disappear, 2009 “Magical, 2009 “Magic, 2010 “Trust in Me”
Music career
In 2008, Gomez recorded a cover of "Cruella de Vil"—which included a music video—for the compilation album DisneyMania 6. Gomez recorded three songs for the Another Cinderella Story soundtrack, which Gomez appears in. Gomez also recorded "Fly to Your Heart" for the 2008 animated film Tinker Bell. In July 2008, before Gomez' sixteenth birthday, she signed a recording deal with Hollywood Records, a music label owned by Disney.In 2009, Gomez recorded "One and the Same" for Princess Protection Program as a duet with her co-star Lovato.Gomez recorded four songs, one of which was a cover, for the Wizards of Waverly Place soundtrack, only one single (Magic) from the album was released. In May, of the same year, Gomez was featured, with Forever the Sickest Kids, on a duet version of the non-album song "Whoa Oh!".[38]Formed in 2009, Selena Gomez & the Scene (aka Selena & The Scene) is a teen pop band which consists of Selena Gomez on vocals, Ethan Roberts on guitar, Joey Clement on bass, Greg Garman on drums and Dane Forrest on keyboards. Kiss & Tell is the band's debut studio album and was released on September 29, 2009 by Hollywood Records. On March 5, 2010, the album was certified Gold by RIAA. The album's single, "Naturally", was certified Platinum by the RIAA on July 15, 2010.The band's second album A Year Without Rain was released on September 17, 2010. The record debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 4, selling 66,000 copies. On January 19, 2011, the album was certified Gold by RIAA.The band's third album When the Sun Goes Down, previously titled Otherside, released on June 28, 2011.The album debuted at Number 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 78,000 copies its first week, becoming their highest sales week ever.The following week the album rose to Number 3 on the Billboard chart and became the band's highest charting album yet.The album's lead single, "Who Says" was certified Platinum by RIAA on June 23, 2011 and has become the bands highest charting song on Billboard to date peaking at number 21.
