Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television producer. After appearing on the children's series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 until 2012.
Gomez also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story (2008), Princess Protection Program (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009), Ramona and Beezus (2010), and Monte Carlo (2011). Thereafter, she focused on more mature roles in Spring Breakers (2012), Getaway (2013), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), and The Dead Don't Die (2019). She voices the character of Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise, and serves as an executive producer of the Netflix television drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–present) and the Netflix documentary series Living Undocumented (2019).
Producer Ian Kirkpatrick on Chart Success During Quarantine: 'It's a Very Strange Duality'
billboard.comMuch like the rest of us, the producer Ian Kirkpatrick is having trouble concentrating. "As the weeks have been progressing, everything has been weighing on me more and more," he says from his home studio in Los Angeles of the global crisis spurred by the spread of the novel coronavirus. "It's all just terrifying." It's an especially bizarre time for Kirkpatrick whose career has recently reached an apex.
In March, he achieved his second Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single with Dua Lipa in the form of the brash earworm "Don't Start Now," which he co-wrote and produced.
Marking the biggest hit of Lipa's career when it peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100, the track climbed up the charts after it dropped a mere week after the release of Selena Gomez's
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