Three decades after the release of her self-titled debut album—and over 25 years after her murder—the Queen of Tejano's memory lives on.
Selena QuintanillaThe Queen of Tejano music, whose debut self-titled album was released 30 years ago on October 17, 1989, had already become one of the best-selling Latin singers of all time and was poised to truly cross over in a major way with the impending release of her bilingual fifth studio album,, her former fan club president and manager of her clothing boutiques. At the time of her death, she was only 23 years old.
While no murder is more tragic than another, there was something about this loss that struck the world so monumentally, in part because it stopped such a promising and hard-fought career dead in its tracks. After all, rising to the title ofwasn't supposed to be possible for Selena—or, really, any other women, for that matter.
By the time her life was tragically cut short, shot by an obsessive friend and employee in a Corpus Christi hotel room while arguing over claims of embezzlement, she'd won the Grammy for Best Mexican/American Album , opened two clothing boutiques with in-house beauty salons called Selena Etc., had challenged the prevailing notions of feminine beauty in the Tejano world, and was hard at work on her English-language crossover.But when Yolanda pulled that trigger, it all came to an abrupt end.
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