This document contains short biographies of six notable Salvadoran or Salvadoran-connected individuals: 1) Singer Álvaro Torres, known for songs like "Chiquita Mia" and duets with Mexican artists. 2) Archbishop Óscar Romero, who served as a bishop in El Salvador and was assassinated in 1980. 3) Poet Claudia Lars, one of El Salvador's most prominent female poets. 4) Artist Fernando Llort, who studied architecture and philosophy in El Salvador and Europe. 5) Actress and singer Selena Gomez, who was born in Texas to Salvadoran and Italian parents and began her career on Bar

1. INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE
SAN RAFAEL
• Estudiante: Reina Esmeralda Ardón
• Maestra : Ana Ester Guardado
• Materia: English
• Grado: 1° Año de Bachillerato
• Tema: Biography
• Año: 2015

2. Álvaro Torres
• Born on April 9 in Concepción Batres, Usulután, El Salvador.
Since childhood Alvaro Torres accurately defined what was to
be in life. "It was a" cock "when he started cantar.
• Beginnings Descended from a poor family from a very small
and showed his talent was then that between the decade of
the 1980 presentations began as a singer, but for lack of
support at home traveled to Guatemala to search for the
victory, achieved in the 90 consolidate its popularity. Among
his best known songs include "Chiquita Mia", "Nothing
compares to you", "I've been waiting for you" and "From end
toend," among others. He has even sung a duet with three
Mexican singers, including Marisela, with the song "My love
for you", Tatiana, with whom he recorded "I want to go back
to your side", and Selena, who played "good friends"

3. Monseñor Romero
• Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez was born on August 15,
1917 in Ciudad Barrios, Department of San Miguel. His father
was a telegrapher and homemaker mother.
• After college devoted to learning basic woodworking and
music. By 1930, the thirteen-year-old Oscar received his call to
the service of God. He entered the minor seminary in San
Miguel and then, in 1937, he moved to Rome where he
completed his theological studies at the Gregorian University
on April 4, 1942. He returned to El Salvador in 1943, to his
hometown of San Miguel and the bishop entrusted Anamorós
parish, a town near San Miguel which honors the patron saint
of El Salvador, Our Lady of Peace.

4. Claudia Lars
• Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega was born in El Salvador
on 20 December 1899 to Patrick (Patricio) Brannon, an Irish
engineer, and a Salvadoran, Manuela Vega. From her father
she acquired a liberal education and a taste for poetry and
literature, as well as sympathy for socialism and theosophy. In
her early years she was educated at home and later attended
the Colegio de La Asunción, run by Catholic French nuns in the
western city of Santa Ana. She was a classmate of the mother
of another well-known writer, Claribel Alegría. Both Lars and
Alegría have been recognized as the most prominent
Salvadoran female poets.

5. Fernando Llort
• Fernando Llort was born on April 7th 1949 in San Salvador, son
of Baltasar Llort and Victoria Choussy. He studied architecture
at the University of El Salvador and later went to France to
study philosophy. After France, Fernando Llort moved to
Belgium to study theology. It was in a foreign land that he
developed and capitalized on his cultural identity through his
artwork. At the end of his stay in Europe, he went to Louisiana
to study art.

6. Selena Gómez
• Selena Marie Gomez was born and raised in Grand Prairie,
Texas, to Mandy Teefey, who is of part Italian descent, and
Ricardo Gomez, who is of Mexican descent and originally from
New Mexico. Her parents divorced in 1997. Giving birth to
Selena at 16, her mom Mandy recalls living "paycheck-to-
paycheck". Selena started out on Barney & Friends (1992) as
"Gianna" in 2001 where she really discovered her talent.
Unfortunately, they dropped her from the series after just two
years