“Selena will forever be a positive role model for the Mexican American community, and her legacy will never die,' said Manuel Pérez, a Texas resident and longtime fan of Selena Quintanilla.
in a leopard-print bustier before a landscape of snow-capped pine trees. Selena in a white top, denim vest and long floral red skirt, alongside a kangaroo. Selena in her iconic purple jumpsuit, in front of a giant mural bearing her likeness and her name.
There’s an insatiable hunger for Selena’s voice and her songs, said Leila Cobo, vice president/Latin industry lead at Billboard, and her legacy is visible in today’s U.S.-born Latin artists, such as Becky G and Selena Gomez. The fascination has little to do with how she died but, rather, with the way she lived, Cobo said.
A biographical film was released in 1997 . Forever 21 and M.A.C. Cosmetics each released Selena-inspired collections. She was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017. A Netflix series is in the works.Peña and McDaniel, of Huntington Beach, California, met in 2004 when they both worked at a Target store.
The lead singer was dressed in a cropped jacket with black-and-white cow print sleeves. To the young Pérez, her voice was angelic, her dance moves mesmerizing. She was wearing a black blouse, black jeans and a black cap with her name on it, Pérez recalled. His family walked up to her, and Pérez told her his name and that he loved her music. She smiled and hugged him. She then took off her cap and put it on Pérez’s head.Selena will forever be a positive role model for the Mexican American community, and her legacy will never die.“Meeting Selena, to me, was the American dream,” Pérez said.
Ben Romo was 6 years old when he learned about Selena. His mother, hoping to give him something to do while she did housework, gave him a VHS of the movie “Selena,” borrowed from a neighbor at their apartment building in the Texas town of Marion. Now Romo pays tribute to the singer through Instagram videos. He wears costumes that evoke her style and lip-syncs to some of her famous songs.
She tuned into the Univision show “Control” one day in 1994 and saw Selena’s music video for “Amor Prohibido.” Beland liked the song, but this was before the internet boomed; Beland couldn’t just Google the young singer. Chris Perez, bottom left, the former husband of the late singer Selena Quintanilla, puts flowers down on her new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as he poses with, left to right, Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla III, her sister Suzette, and her parents Marcella Ofelia Samora and Abraham Quintanilla Jr. during a posthumous star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles.
Selena has always been his go-to person to draw, he said, and he’s lost count of the number of times he’s drawn her likeness with graphite and colored pencils. Selena’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled in 2017. There was talk in the publishing world, López said, that someone should write a picture book about Selena to introduce her to young readers.
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