Selena Gomez Biography

Selena Gomez has been an artist who for a long time was associated with the Disney universe as a child artist in popular Disney shows, movies as well as established herself as a solo singing artist and a philanthropist. Selena Gomez’s real name is Selena Marie Gomez but she later dropped her middle name after she gained the popularity of a solo artist. Selena Gomez was born as Selena Marie Gomez in Grand Prairie situated in texas, the United States on 22nd July 1992. Selena bagged the role in a kids’ show named “Barney and Friends” for the first time as a child artist that ran for two years. Then after doing some small roles in a few of the movies, she finally got a big break as a guest star in Disney World in a popular show called “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”. 

Finally, she landed with a show named “Wizards of the Waverly place” with Disney world in the year 2007 where she played the lead character. Then in the following years, she released her solo music album named “Kiss and Tell” in the year 2009 which was of the pop genre. Her other top musical albums include “Revival” released in the year 2015 that has a single “Good for you” that became very popular with the young crowd and then in 2020 she released another single album “Rare” that has the song “Lose you to love me” that ranked top on the pop Billboard charts. Her major projects other than musical albums also include a film called “Spring Bakers” which was released in  2013 where she was cast as the main lead of the movie that was also a big hit. She earned a lot of popularity and respect as she came out in public about her struggles and journey while battling lupus. At the age of 17, she was appointed as the first youngest ambassador of UNICEF. 

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The Early Life of Selena Gomez

Selena was born to her parents, Ricardo Gomez who is her father and Amanda Cornett who is her mother. She was born in Grand Prairie, Texas on July 22, 1992. Her mother was popularly known as Mandy and she gave birth to Selena Gomez. Her mother was just 16 years of age when she gave birth to Selena Gomez.  

Selena Gomez: Movies, Songs and TV Shows

“Barney and Friend”

She first landed into the showbiz business with the show named “Barney and Friend” in the year 2001 and she was part of the cast for the next two years but she quit the show around 2003. She then auditioned for many shows but that did not work in her favor and she finally landed small roles in movies like Spy Kid 3-D: Game over in the year 2003, Walker where she played a small role and her character named was Julie, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire that was released in the year 2005 and finally in the year 2006 she worked on a play project named Brain Zapped where she also recorded a song for the series and played a role named Emily Grace Gracia. 

“Wizard of the Waverly Place” 

Finally, in the year 2006, she landed a guest role in one of the hit shows of Disney called “The suite life of Zack and Cody” and her character named Gwen became popular. By this time she did many projects with Disney and thus Disney production considered her in the popular series “Hanna Montana” in the role of an antagonist and her character name was Mikayla. Finally, in the year 2007, she got her big break with another Disney show named “the wizard of the Waverly place” where she played one of the main leads named Alex Russo that went on to become a big hit within a year and ran until 2012. 

“Princess Protection Program”

She was first started in an animation movie, “Horton Hears a Who” released in the year 2008 where she lends her voice. In the same year, she starred in another family movie named “Another Cinderella Movie” along with actor, Andrew Selley, which was produced by ABC and released on Disney Channel. By that time Selena shot two projects with Disney as their original movie franchise. She was then starred with Demi Lovato in another hit movie named “Princess Protection Program” that was released in the year 2009 from where she got noticed and finally later in the same year she again cast as Alex Russo in the “Wizard of the Waverly Place: The Movie”.

Music Projects

Other than her acting career she also started focusing on her career as a music artist and finally she recorded the background music title “Crullea de Vil” in the year 2008 for the movie Disney Mania 6. She has also given her voice for the three tunes of the soundtrack of her movie “Another Cinderella Movie” and one playback for the animated movie she was in named “Tinker Bell”. She recorded a duet with Demi Lovato on a single track named “One and The Same” for their movie “ Princess Protection Program” and four soundtracks as the background songs for the series “Wizard of the Waverly Place”. 

Debut Album of Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez in the year 2008, featured as a cameo in the music video of the single hit named “Burning Up” that was composed and sang by the Jonas Brothers. Later in the same year, she signed to record her debut album with the Hollywood recorder and then began recording her singles for the album “Kiss and Tell” that was finally released in the following year 2009. 

Voice for the Animated Movie Along With Voiceovers

Selena Gomez, in the year 2012, lends her voice to an animated character called Mavis for an animated movie titled Hotel Transylvania. Later she also starred alongside actor James Franco and actress Vanessa Hudgens and various other artists in a crime thriller comedy named “Spring breakers” directed by Harmony Korine that was released in the year 2013. The same year she has bagged another role in a thriller called highway along with actor Ethan Hawke. Alongside her acting career, she was also devoted to her musical career where she released a back-to-back album in the year 2013 named “Star Dance 2013”and another album “For You” in the year 2014 that witnessed some of the single hit songs. Later in the year 2014, she was starred in the comedy movie titled “Behaving badly” alongside actress Mary-Lewis Parker.

Top Hits of Selena Gomez

In the summer of the year 2015, she came up with a chartbuster hit single “Good for You” and later in the same year, in October, she released her fifth album named “Revival”. The same year in the time of fall she recorded the music track for the movie “Hotel Transylvania 2” and served as a singing mentor in the reality music show “The Voice” for the team of Gwen Stefani. But she raised to real success when her single “ Bad Liar” and “It Ain’t Me” in collaboration with DJ Kygo became the blockbuster hit in the year 2017 and ranked among the top songs on the billboard. For her single track “Fetish” she collaborated with rapper Gucci Mane and for the single hit “Wolves” she collaborated with Mysterious Marshmellow. 

In 2018, one of her single tracks “ Back to You”  and “only you” was recorded as a background track for one of the most popular series on Netflix named “13 Reasons Why” which was a teen suicide drama and also shot for “Hotel Transylvania 3” as her previous character named Mavis. In the year 2019, she made a comeback to the big screen with a zombie comedy movie “The Dead Don’t Lie” which was directed by Jim Jarmusch. After completion of the project, she started working on her album that was also released later in the same year with the singles “Look At Her Now” and Lose You to Love Me” that went on to b4come the no. 1 hit that made her debut album “Rare” rank on the top of the chart by January 1, 2020. She also lends her voice to the animated giraffe character name Betsy in the kids’ movie “ Do Little” which was directed by Robert Drowny Jr. 

Fighting Lupus

Gomez started a long tough fight with a neurological disorder called Lupus in January of the year 2014. Late in the year 2017, that is by the month of September, her conditions and symptoms of Lupus worsened and she had to finally undergo kidney transplantation that her friend and also her roommate named Francia Raisa had volunteered as a kidney donor. She had always been very vocal about her journey with Lupus in order to spread more awareness about the same among people. She even went on with NBC News where she had revealed her whole experience and Journey in fighting Lupus with reporter Savana Guthire’s Today. 

A few months later of her surgery on November 19, 2017, she was back on the stage of American Music Award where she, unfortunately, had to undergo a lot of criticism for not singing actually and had delivered a lip-syncing performance on her own song where other came in support of her appreciating her efforts to perform just after few months of her life-saving transplant surgery. Lupus Research Alliance research gala has honored Selena Gomez for rising a whopping amount of more than  $500,000 that was donated for the research of the disease Lupus the very next day of her performance in the American Music Award. Later in the same year, she was again honored as she was declared the woman of the year at the annual billboard ranking on November 30, 2017.  

The Bipolarity of Selena Gomez

She had always been open about her fight with anxiety and depression in the previous years of her career but in the year 2020 in an interview with Miley Cirus, she revealed that she was also diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder where she came out strong and brave among the audiences regarding her mental state.

Business and Activism

She was the face of the Borden Milk in the print ads and the campaigning face and was also a brand ambassador and spokesperson for the same brand. She had also volunteered herself as the candidate to encourage teenagers to learn more about the candidates running for the presidential position in the election of the year 2008.  She had also been long associated with UNICEF as its goodwill ambassador and also helped to improve the living conditions of many children around the globe through her initiative by establishing C.A.N (Charity Action Now). 

Selena Gomez also collaborated with a high-end brand “Coach” in the year 2017, to launch her handbags and accessories line and the following year she took the collaboration in launching ready-to-wear garment collections.

Gomez in the expansion of her business projects in the year 2019, filed for a trademark “Selena Gomez” to trade the cosmetic line introduced by her that included skin-care products, fragrances, hair care, cosmetics, essential oils and soaps.