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Selena Gomez

FAITH LAPIDUS: That is “A Year Without Rain,” the title song of the new record from Selena Gomez and the Scene.

The album hit Billboard Magazine’s top two hundred albums chart at number four. Selena Gomez and the Scene 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” from “A Year Without Rain.”

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Selena Gomez grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas. She is of Mexican and Italian ancestry. She was named after the Tejano singer Selena.

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

We leave you with Selena Gomez and the Scene performing “Live Like There’s No Tomorrow” from “A Year Without Rain.”

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