Example of a PowerPoint for a Descriptive Speech

1. Selena
Her Life and Legacy
Campos, P. & Laughlin, K. (2016, October 17). Selena [Google
doodle]. Retrieved from Google.com

2. Family and Start in Music

3. Her Father
Hernandez. (1996, March 23). Selena anniversary 03 [Photograph]. Flickr.
Retrieved from https://flic.kr/p/7QcNZh

4. Los
Dinos
Selena-LaLeyenda-Fans. (1987). Selena anniversary 04 then and now: Publicity photo of Selena Y Los
Dinos [Photograph]. Flickr. Retrieved from https://flic.kr/p/7QcP21

5. Influences on her music

6. • Tejano music tradition
• “Brown Soul”

7. Her Career

8. Signing with Record Label

9. Concerts & Tours

10. Awards
• Tejano Music Awards for best female vocalist and performer of
the year, 1987
• Grammy award for Best Mexican American album, 1993,
for Selena Live; Grammy nomination, 1995, for Amor prohibido
• Tejano Music Awards, 1995,
• Song of the Year ("Bidi Bidi Bom Bom")
• Best female entertainer
• Best female vocalist
• Album of the year (for Amor prohibido)
• Tejano crossover song
• Record of the year.

11. Her Legacy

12. References
Selena. (2002). In Contemporary Hispanic Biography (Vol. 2). Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from https://lynn-
lang.student.lynn.edu/login?url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K2429100125/BIC1?u=boca54337&xid=3c0b4e1
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Selena. (2013). In St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from https://lynn-
lang.student.lynn.edu/login?url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K2419201088/BIC1?u=boca54337&xid=e04f316f
Stavans, I. (1998). The riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic popular culture. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New
Mexico Press. Retrieved from http://lynn-
lang.student.lynn.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=22889&site=eh
ost-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_3
Vargas, D. R. (2012). Dissonant divas in Chicana music: The limits of la onda. Retrieved from
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lynnu/reader.action?ppg=10&docID=1047450&tm=1508253609742