2011 Commemorative stamp, US Postal Service.
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One month later, March 31, Selena Quintanilla-Perez died of a gunshot wound inflicted by a former president of the Selena Fan Club. She was sixteen days short of her twenty-fourth birthday.
Miramor de la Flor, a memorial to Selena in downtown Corpus Christi, was opened to the public in 1997. BBBH and I visited this tribute to the singer in 2000.
April 16 is "Selena Day" in the State of Texas.
Selena April 16, 1971 - March 31, 1995 RIP
6 comments:
Such a waste. :( Still...we need a holiday for this person???
I know SO little about popular music. I've heard of her but that's all.
Lin, oh, yes. A holiday for everyone and everything!
Grace, I am no fan of popular music, either. I think, though, that I posted this because of the tragic nature of the girl's early demise. There is something pleasant (to me) about the quality of her voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRU2qs82DAg
Sylvia and I were Selena fans. We also enjoyed watching her appearances on the telenovela, Dos mujeres, un camino. Erik Estrada was the main protagonist in the Latin American version of a soap opera. Unlike our soaps, telenovelas do end after several weeks. Which is a merciful thing.
She was gone far, far too soon. Her brilliant legacy, though, will go on long after we are all gone.
Chuck, we now have prime time soap operas disguised as dramatic presentations. Unfortunately.
I do like to listen to Selena sing in Spanish. I might even understand a word or two in any given song.
Shelly, she was brilliant. Many of today's young twitlets on center stage don't deserve to have their names mentioned along side her. imo
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