The Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla is now being featured on the Google home page. She only lived 23 years but she has made a huge impact on so many lives in her short time on this planet.

Google’s Perla Campos, from the Doodle team wrote:

She was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas and was murdered on March 31, 1995 in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was a singer, songwriter, spokesperson, model, actress, and fashion designer. They called her the Queen of Tejano music, she was named the top selling Latin artist of the 1990s decade.

Google made a video Doodle to celebrate her life:

You can read more about her life on Wikipedia and Google wrote a special blog post about her on the Google blog.

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