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Selena Quintanilla-Pérez: Images of the Late Latin Music Legend

November 17, 2025

Selena Quintanilla is a legendary singer, misplaced too quickly. Bear in mind the late Latin legend with photographs.

A legend misplaced far too quickly. Selena Quintanilla, born April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas, was the “Queen Of Tejano Music”, so well-known she turned identified by simply “Selena”. The Texas-born expertise first rose to prominence within the late 80s earlier than being signed to a significant Latin label within the late 80s. From there, hits started to pour out of her. Songs like “Como la Flor”, “Amor Prohibido”, and “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” nonetheless play on the radio at this time.

In 1994 she received Finest Mexican/American Album on the Grammy Awards, changing into the primary recording by a feminine Tejano artist to take action. Tragedy adopted not lengthy after, nonetheless. Selena was shot and killed by her good friend and former worker Yolanda Saldívar in 1995, at age 23. Her posthumous English crossover album ‘Dreaming of You’ (1995), debuted atop the Billboard 200. Right this moment Selena is remembered by followers across the globe.

Right this moment, Selena’s music, type, and legacy proceed to encourage generations — and her story is being launched to a completely new viewers via the upcoming Netflix documentary Selena y Los Dinos, which options uncommon, never-before-seen footage of her adolescence and rise to stardom.

To see photographs of Selena, try the gallery.

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