Selena was born on April 16, 1971. She is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, dancer, model, actress, and fashion designer that came such a long way from where she began as the lead vocalist of her family oriented band, Selena Los Dinos. Named the "Top Latin Artist of the '90s" and "Best Selling Latin Artist of the Decade" by Billboard Magazine, for her fourteen top-ten singles, which included seven number-one hits, she was often referred to as The Queen of Tejano music and seen as the Mexican equivalent of the US's Madonna.