MIAMI.- He legacy of Selena Quintanilla He is still relevant in the music industry and the world, even 29 years after his premature departure. It was March 31, 1995, when the light of the Queen of Tex-Mex Music turned off after being shot by Yolanda Saldvarpresident of her fan club and manager of her boutiques.
In the glory of her artistic career, Selena, who already accumulated important awards for her musical successes, had agreed to meet with Saldvar at the Corpus Christi hotel, Texas, to discuss an alleged diversion of funds from the singer’s stores.
However, in the heat of the confrontation, the then 34-year-old woman pulled out a Taurus 85 caliber 38 mm sawed-off revolver128131 and threatened the singer, who was shot in the back when trying to flee.
She was immediately helped by local employees, who called the emergency services, and before fainting she managed to reveal her attacker. Although she was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital, Quintanilla had lost a lot of blood, as her bullet hit her subclavian artery, and she was declared brain dead.
Selena was 23 years old and at the peak of her career.
Selena’s legacy
Known as the Queen of Tex-Mex, successes such as Bidi Bidi Bom Bom, As the flower y Dreaming of You still resonate in the playlist not only of those who at that time closely followed in Selena’s footsteps, but also of the new generations who inherit or discover her immortal timeless pieces.
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Selena Quintanilla shook the industry with a fresh style that mixed her Mexican roots with her Texan essence, fusing the region’s own rhythms with pop, and paving the way for a wave of artists who would consolidate the genre that she catapulted.
Selena released a total of eleven albums, six with her band Selena y Los Dinos, and five without them, and received countless recognitions, including the Billboard Latin Music Awards, the Premio Lo Nuestro and a Grammy in 1994 for Best Mexican/American Music Album. by Live!.
After her fateful murder, her music continued to resonate and in 1996, the artist added four Billboard Latin Music albums for Pop Record of the Year, Artist of the Year, Video of the Year and Song of the Year.
Subsequently, Selena’s career has been honored during the first and second decades of the 2000s. And in 2021, the United States National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded the Grammy for Artistic Career.
In commemoration of the anniversary of her death, Selena’s family members shared a photo of a white rose with their followers on Instagram and wrote: “To all Selena fans around the world. You have our deepest love and gratitude for continuing to love Selena.” our Selena. Forever Selena.”
Controversial documentary
The docuseries Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them It has been the window through which Yolanda Saldvar has made known ‘her truth’ about her relationship with the singer Selena Quintanilla, almost 30 years after the murder of the Queen of Tex.Mex.
In the audiovisual project, which will be released on February 17 by Oxygen and which consists of three episodes, Saldvar confessed, from the Patrick O’Daniel Unit penitentiary center, that his intention was not to harm the singer. “I didn’t know when my gun went off. I didn’t know what had hit him because I thought he had simply fled,” he said, referring to what happened on March 31, 1995, when she shot the interpreter.
The woman, now 63 years old, indicated that on March 9, 1995 she had acquired the revolver, after holding a meeting with Selena, her sister, Suzette, and her father, Abraham Quintanilla, who, according to her, had threatened her and He was afraid for his physical integrity.
Saldivar assured in the audiovisual that his intention was never to attack Selena, and that the singer’s father never had evidence that she stole money from the stores.
In 2009, in an interview I gave to The fat and the skinny, The woman pointed out that Selena’s father took advantage of the fans’ feelings to judge her.
“I was condemned by public opinion even before my trial began. They have been fed a narrative that is not correct. (They say) that I was an embezzler, that I was an assistant. They reversed my right as a citizen of the United States to “I will be innocent until proven guilty. I was guilty and I had to prove my innocence,” Univision reported.
