![]() ![]() There’s never been a Latin impersonation like a Marilyn Monroe, or an Elvis Presley those are very common so me doing my tribute and them seeing it grow the way it did was as if I was trying to steal her identity or take credit for her accomplishments. Our people couldn’t understand what I was trying to accomplish by dressing like her dancing and singing her songs. well, if you know the Hispanic community and what Selena means to our culture, then you would know why I had so much backlash when I first began doing this thing called a tribute to Selena…. lol! Absolutely not a smooth ride at all. I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road? It’s like pinch me wake me up…lol! This journey has been amazing! It’s crazy how my tribute to Selena led me to be signed to a record label, street science entertainment out of Houston, TX and now am currently making my own music. And in a nutshell, that’s the beginning of me creating my Selena tribute performance that catapulted me into perfecting my tribute and now traveling all over the country performing my tribute to Selena that blossomed me into being the “number one Selena Tribute Artist” quoting Joey Guerra who is the music editor for the Houston Chronicle. After that long conversation, I made a plan grabbed a microphone and my stereo and put together a 6 song performance that I would perform at Neldas 40th “quince” celebration. Mind you I never met this woman but she already felt like my Tia lol! The story is almost unbelievable. I said no, but I could wear my mom’s outfit I wore before she said no, I want to make you the outfit I began to say no and of course, You know she wouldn’t accept no for an answer, so she had a good friend recreate the outfit for me and the family donated the purple jumpsuit and gave it to me. She asked if I had the purple jumpsuit Selena wore at the Astrodome in 1995. At that moment she tugged at my heartstrings and literally guilted me into doing a performance…lol! I told Maria, ok, I would do a small performance. Well, if you know much about Latin women, you can not tell a Latin woman no! Lol! She began to tell me about her daughter having Down syndrome and that she had a lot of health issues so it was such a blessing for Nelda to have lived this long and that’s why they wanted to do a quince Selena theme party. lol! But people were requesting and I had one Latina woman named Maria that kept calling me on my Facebook messenger …lol! demanding me to do a performance for her daughter Neldas 40th birthday who was a HUGE Selena fan. I didn’t even know where to begin or what to call this I was like I’m not an impersonator that was a one-time thing just a fun night of Karaoke. lol! After that weekend not knowing that people had posted my videos on all social media platforms, I started to get phone calls….people wanting to book me. ![]() I was like no I was just simply dressed as my mother singing and dancing to Selena’s music. After my performance, people were asking me if I was impersonating Selena. ![]() Mind you, I was dressed as myself the first night of the contest for the second finale contest I actually dressed as my late mother which coincidently dressed like Selena I say that because in that era when my mother was alive that was the style of clothing, the high waist pants, bustiers, and cropped bolero jackets. I entered a karaoke contest singing Selena songs and won.Īt the contest, people were recording my performance. Hi Amanda, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story. Today we’d like to introduce you to Amanda Solis. ![]()
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