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“Anything for Selenas”

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“In a world full of Yolandas, be a Selena”

CRIME with CARMEN:

‘Con tanto amor (con tanto amor) Se marchitó’, who remembers this masterpiece? I sing my lungs out to this song. “The Queen of Tejano music”.

Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. She only knew how to speak English but sang her songs in Spanish because her dad wanted for her to get in touch with her culture. Selena was a music artist, songwriter, fashion designer, and among other things. She was selling concerts, records, She was the bomb.com in the 90’s. The ‘It’ girl to many. She stays being one the best selling female artists till this day.

She opened a Boutique here in San Antonio, of which Yolanda Saldivar was the manager. Fun (sad) fact; Saldivar was born here in San Antonio, (we don’t claim her though). Yolanda Saldivar was a nurse who would attend Selena’s concerts prior to becoming the president of her fan club. They became real close friends, so Selena thought, till she was caught embezzling money from both of the organizations which were her boutiques and her fan club. Plus the jealously towards Selena was insane. Selena found out these heinous acts by her father, Abraham Quintanilla, so as every person would, she went to confront her, not knowing that would cost her own life.

They met at a Days Inn Motel in Corpus Christi, where Selena demanded the financial papers, and that is where Saldivar pulled out a revolver and pointed it at her. Selena tried to flee but was hit in the right lower shoulder. She was then taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital, while Saldivar tried escaping in her pick- up truck and proceeded to stay there more than 9 hours!! At 1:05 pm, Selena, ‘The Queen of Tejano music’, was declared deceased.

Whoever saw the movie, ‘Selena’ the scene where her family is in the hospital receiving the news, we all cried like a baby. That was a sad day for The Latinx Culture, we lost a great artist, lost a queen but we stay with her legacy.

A Fallen Rose

“In a world full of Yolandas, be a Selena”

CRIME with CARMEN:

We wanna slide into your DMs