The city features a bronze statue of its icon in which Selena’s likeness leans back against a white pillar, her face turned toward Corpus Christi Bay.
Fans in 2016 attend the annual Fiesta de la Flor celebrating the late Selena Quintanilla in Corpus Christi, Texas.
“We choose this over anything else,” Ramirez, 44, said. “Thankfully we haven’t had to choose between a family thing and this, because that would be a hard decision.” Early Thursday, Meliza Loya began a roughly 800-mile drive from Oklahoma City to Corpus Christi with her mother and 14-year-old sister. It is Loya’s second time making the trip for the festival, but a first for her family, she said.
People come to the city “to feel her essence, to feel her music,” Rodriguez said, and “to see everything that makes her the star that she is — she was.” A crowd at Fiesta de la Flor in 2016. This year, 55,000 people are expected to attend the two-day festival, which begins April 12.
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