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Quintanilla Sr. had performed as a vocalist with "Los Dinos" (The Boys) when he was young so when he opened a restaurant named "Papagallos" a few years later, the newly formed band Selena Y Los Dinos were the featured performers. The restaurant failed, the family went bankrupt and relocated to Corpus Christi, TX. But the band hit the road, performing at weddings, cantinas and festivals throughout southern Texas.
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Selena released her next album, Amor Prohibido, in 1994. The album was nominated for another Grammy award for Mexican-American Album of the Year. She began designing and manufacturing a clothing line in 1994, and opened two boutiques called Selena Etc., one in Corpus Christi and the other in San Antonio. Both were equipped with their own in-house beauty salons. Hispanic Business magazine reported that the singer earned over five million dollars from these boutiques.[10] Selena ... made appearances alongside Erik Estrada in a Latin soap opera titled Dos Mujeres, Un Camino.[6]
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The filming of the movie Selena is done for now in San Antonio. They start filming in Corpus Christi next. The movie is expected to be out in April 1997. Edward James Olmos said that portraying Mr. Quintanilla has been his toughest role yet to play. "There's nobody like Abraham Quintanilla", Mr. Olmos said. "He's a very complex man."
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Selena , a 23-year-old Grammy award-winning singer, was idolized by Hispanic teen-agers and was on the verge of breaking into English-speaking radio. The lead singer of the band Selena y Los Dinos died of a gunshot wound at Memorial Medical Center in Corpus Christi at 1:05 p.m.
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Selena took some time out from touring to record music. For Corpus Christi's Freddie label, Selena recorded Mis Primeras Grabaciones in 1984. Freddie was one of the oldest and most established Spanish-language record companies in Texas. The album and its only single, "Ya Se Va," did not sell well. Switching to Cara and Manny record labels, Selena's albums did not sell much better. Living in a van, the band continued to tour by opening for larger Tejano acts in the southwest United States.
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Donde Quiero Que Estes was more tropical-influenced than most traditional Tejano music, and this song exposed Selena to an even wider market. On April 2, 1992, Selena married 22-year-old Christopher Perez, the lead guitarist for her band and they soon moved into a house in the La Molina neighborhood of Corpus Christi between her parents and her brother's family.
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