Actress and pop star Selena Gomez will play Valley View Casino Center, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., on Wednesday, July 6 as part of her worldwide “Revival Tour.” The show starts at 7:30 p.m. with opening acts DNCE (Joe Jonas’ new band) and Bahari (a female trio from Southern California). For tickets and more information, visit valleyviewcasinocenter.com.
Gomez may have started her career as an actress starring in a Disney Channel series at the age of 15, but she soon showed that her musical talents were perhaps even stronger as she piled up hit singles and chart-topping albums. Born in 1992, she grew up in Texas and got her first break as a cast member on the kids’ TV show “Barney and Friends.”
By 2009 she had assembled her own teen pop band, Selena Gomez & the Scene, and signed a contract with Hollywood Records. The band’s full-length debut, “Kiss & Tell,” was released that year and went gold, as did its 2010 follow-up, “A Year Without Rain.” Her last album for Hollywood Records, a contract-fulfilling hits collection titled “For You,” was released in late 2014 and spawned the self-penned platinum single “The Heart Wants What It Wants.”
In early 2015, Gomez guested on Zedd’s hit EDM single “I Want You to Know.” On the heels of that success, she released her own single, the Sir Nolan- and Nick Monson-produced “Good for You,” which featured a guest appearance by the song’s co-writer, rapper A$AP Rocky. The song featured on the 2015 album “Revival,” her first for Interscope.