Last night on late night TV they had a bio-pic starring Jennifer Lopez and Edward James Olmos about Selena Quintanilla Perez. It was quite watchable but afterwards I had a question that I haven’t been able to answer.
What happened to the rest of the Quintanilla/Perez folks? They seemed according to the movie to have lives that totally revolved around Selena’s voice. They all toured with her, were her backing band and management and I ended up with the impression that her death would have left them with hardly any prospects, even though they had been on the verge of all being set for life.
I love the Selena movie, it’s so sad. And JLo looked just like Selena. I don’t think she’s acted that well in anything since that movie.
I always wondered what happened to the family as well, and what happened to that witch who shot Selena. I think she may have died in prison, but I would have to look it up to be certain.
I know that in Texas the sales of white shoe polish went up quite a bit. It seems like every other car had something like “Selena Forever” or “We Love Selena” written on one window or another. It took the death of Dale before I witnessed the phenomenon again.
I saw one of those “60 Minutes”-type programs where she was featured. I found her evasiveness to be particularly obnoxious. You know when someone is caught in a lie, and it would be obvious to a 10-year-old that they’ve been caught in a lie, but the person caught in the lie clings to the ridiculous notion that they HAVEN’T been caught in a lie? That was Saldivar.
I saw the show you’re talking about. I don’t know that she was caught in a lie as much as she was delusional. Even in death, Selena couldn’t rid herself of Yolanda. IIRC, Yolanda “claimed” that she could clear herself and sent detectives on a wild goose chase to Mexico. I think by refusing to be specific about the night Selena died, she was keeping a part of Selena to herself. The woman is nuts!
To this day I see Gen-Z Latina women wearing Selena merch, who wouldn’t even have been born before she died. I guess she’s the Tejana equivalent of Kurt Cobain in that regard.
I teach 6th grade and tons of girls who are 12-years old are wearing Selena shirts. I ask them if they know who she is and they do and how she died because of a fan club president.
She has a lot of impact on the Hispanic community all these years later.