Selena Gomez Has a Promising New Career

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Selena Gomez is a singer and actress.  She started her career when she was seven years old.   She starred on the children’s public television show, “Barney and Friends.”

She’s now 18 years old.  She stars in a popular Disney television show.  She also starred in a hit movie last summer.

Gomez just finished her second album.   The album was number four on Billboard Magazine’s top 200 albums chart.  Here’s the title song, “A Year Without Rain,” from the new album, “A Year Without Rain” by Selena Gomez and the Scene.

Selena Gomez also had good luck with their first album, “Kiss and Tell.”  It has sold more than a million copies around the world.

Here is “Round and Round,” another song from “A Year Without Rain.”

Selena Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas.  Her family is Mexican and Italian.  She was named after another famous singer, Selena.

Last year, Selena Gomez became a United Nations Children’s Fund Ambassador.  She was seventeen.  She was the youngest person to have this job.  Gomez also has been the spokesperson for the Trick or Treat for UNICEF Halloween program for three years straight.

This is Selena Gomez and the Scene singing “Live Like There’s No Tomorrow” from “A Year Without Rain.”