# Selena: what happened afterwards? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018 "2005-01-16T11:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/1 "2005-01-16T11:53:47Z")
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. Does anyone know where they are today? ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/2 "2005-01-16T14:27:24Z")
Her brother, A.B., and her husband went on to form [Kumbia Kings](http://www.loskumbiakings.com/english.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/3 "2005-01-16T15:52:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/4 "2005-01-16T16:06:49Z")
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. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/5 "2005-01-16T16:53:14Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > 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. Yolanda Saldivar. 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. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/6 "2005-01-16T17:16:42Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/7 "2005-01-16T17:19:56Z")
> [@Grace](#): > > 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! I wanted to say that she sent detectives on a wild goose chase, but I wasn’t positive about that part. Good to get confirmation on that. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/8 "2025-03-27T06:03:13Z")
Well, 20 years after this thread: > **[30 years after music icon Selena's murder, Yolanda Saldívar is up for parole....](https://apnews.com/article/selena-murder-yolanda-saldivar-parole-c68df5e4f1e6398a54587044f35e652e)** > > Thirty years ago, Latino music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club’s president, Yolanda Saldívar. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/9 "2025-03-27T06:22:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/10 "2025-03-28T12:50:50Z")
> **[The woman who killed Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole](https://apnews.com/article/selena-murder-yolanda-saldivar-parole-denied-246b87861c79892fffacdebac568d691)** > > The woman who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, has been denied parole by a Texas board. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/11 "2025-03-28T19:10:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I guess she’s the Tejana equivalent of Kurt Cobain in that regard. Would that make Kurt Kobain the American equivalent of the Polish Selena? > **[Meet The Polish Selena](https://theonion.com/meet-the-polish-selena-1819588945/)** ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selena-what-happened-afterwards/285018/12 "2025-03-29T16:59:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > 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.