Google honors Selena’s life and career with doodle
It's been 28 years since Selena released her self-titled album and rose to fame, and Google is marking the occasion with a doodle in her honor.
It has been exactly 28 years since Selena Quintanilla released her self-titled album and kicked off her rise to fame, and Google is marking the occasion with a doodle in her honor.
The Google Doodle is set to the tune of her 1994 hit “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,” and showcases aspects of Quintanilla’s rise from a small-town singer to a superstar. The clip shows her father encouraging her and her sisters, A.B. and Suzette, as they formed the band Selena y Los Dinos, which Quintanilla fronted until she was murdered in 1995.
Google Doodle’s Perla Campos, who co-created the illustration, described not only Quintanilla’s popularity but the adversity that she faced in trying to make it in the industry.
“First playing at the family restaurant, quiceañeras, and fairs, the band’s humble beginnings — including sitting on equipment due to the lack of formal seating in their inaugural tour bus ‘Big Bertha’ — eventually led to high profile touring. But they also fought through hard times and adversity. In fact, Selena was frequently discriminated against in the male-dominated music genre, and some venues even refused to book the band for shows,” Campos said in a blog post.
Fans of Selena took to Twitter with the hashtag #Selena to celebrate the Google Doodle as “long overdue and well-deserved.”
Goddammit, the Google doodle of #Selena made me cry pic.twitter.com/mZF6IByxS8
— min ? (@zaharrena) October 17, 2017
We love and miss you beautiful angel. Today we celebrate your life and legacy. #Selena pic.twitter.com/SbWRXuO3ls
— Alex (@AlexAalleex) October 17, 2017
Just about cried when I saw the #Selena Google Doodle. An honor long overdue and well-deserved. pic.twitter.com/YNd30r0LEh
— Boo-anna ? (@yummyreads) October 17, 2017
#Selena is trending in 2017. Twitter wasn’t even a thought in anyone’s mind yet when she was tragically murdered in 1995. Legends only pic.twitter.com/PlRFLVnIba
— Everything Bellarke (@LifeIsBellarke) October 17, 2017
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