Selena Interview - Part 1 - Clubs - http://maxpages.com/selenaclub4grl/Selena_Interview_Part

On June 20, 1994 Selena Quintanilla Perez appeared on Cristina's special edition, wearing her hair "No Me Queda Mas" video style (The song of which she also sang on this appearence), up tall in curls, she wore a black vest with gold lapel, underneath a white v-necked t-shirt and black spandex pants, plus tall black boots. This is part one of Cristina's interview with Selena. In this english translated version of the interview, you will learn much about our favorite Tejano Queen! Crssssssssss.....Now we take you to our regularly schedueled program, (Cristina's theme music) Selena and Cristina:

Cristina: Do you consider yourself as "Sexy"?

Selena: (Hesitates)ummm...no (An applaud from the audience, Selena laughs) Aye Gracias, well no, I don't consider myself as sexy.

Cristina: Could you stand up? (Selena stands and raises her arms) What do you think?

Selena: Thank you.

Cristina: I know that a lot of women say this little girl is not embarrassed to sing or to dress like this and then to sell these clothes in a boutique.

Selena: Okay, but let me explain a little more about things like this. It's like a performance, singing. It is like a "show" and I am not like that normally. There are 2 different personalities. Normally I dress in a more modest fashion.

Cristina: Okay, you feel that you are 2 people. That happens to almost everyone that are in the entertainment field. You feel that you are Selena, "the person" and Selena, "the personality."

Selena: Exactly

Cristina: Like a doll for the public. Explain the basic difference between the two Selena's.

Selena: Well, when I am singing I am a completely different person. I could be very free, depending on the situation I could do what I want. I could have to deliver, as with many songs, a lot of emotion if a song is very sad as with a very happy and excited song. It depends, it depends. Compared to when I am in my, I am normal, like whomever, of the public.

Cristina: Are you a "Modern" girl or are you "Old fashion"?

Selena: Old fashion, because of my family. (Cristina begins but Selena interupts) Also naturally moral.

Cristina: Okay, and your form of projecting yourself on the stage, your husband is your guitarist. He travels with you. He never had an attack of jealousy when there is a man near with intentions of flirting?

Selena: No, because we communicate. Before we were married and when we were friends! It is the most important thing to be friends before anything.

Cristina: What is it that attracted you to him?

Selena: He was timid.

Cristina: He was timid?

Selena: Umm humm..(nodds)

Cristina: And you were timid also?

Selena: No (laughs) Not as much as he.

Cristina: But when you were a child, you were timid?

Selena: Yes, very timid.

Cristina: What did you do to over come it so you could give advice to those who are timid also?

Selena: Well, I believe that is due to my dad. And his BELT! (Selena laughs and begins to imitate her father) "You're gonna sing, little girl!" (Shaking her hands in front of her and laughing) Boy, I was very timid. But when a person grows up you change and those things too.

Cristina: What is it that you do to control the men that flirt and go overboard and get the Selena "personality" confused with Selena "the person" and they think you are real sexy? This must have happened before, because it happens to everyone. How do you stop that?

Selena: "I'm married, you should have more respect."

Cristina: When you're on the stage you're not married, when you're on the stage you are neither married nor single, you are a "personality."

Selena: A lot of people respect me because, I don't know if you've ever been to our shows..

Cristina: Yes.

Selena: When I am singing, I believe that if I respect the public, then they will respect me and I know it. It's noticable.

Cristina: Do you believe you are very strong?

Selena: I believe so, dominate and aggressive.

Cristina: Dominate and aggressive?

Selena: You have to be.

Cristina: Why?

Selena: There's a lot of men in this business, if you can't speak for yourself they are going to run you down every which way.

Cristina: You think if you weren't a strong person in this business the people would take advantage of you because you are a woman?

Selena: Exactly, it has happened! I also have the protection of my father.

Cristina: Tell me, what's the worse that has happened to you?

Selena: Not only me but the whole group. Just because I am a woman, the promoters didn't want to let me give shows, or promote the group because I was a woman and also very young. That's one of the problems with the group when we first started, they didn't want to give us the opportunity to play.

Cristina: Okay, we will talk about your father who you've mentioned 4 times in one segment, a person very important in your life and your representative. And the person that said "You're gonna sing!" (Selena laughs) and the nest segment, today it's incredible to believe when Selena was a child she prefered to play football with the boys instead of playing with dolls. We'll be back.

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