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Selena: Selena Quintanilla Perez
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The Selena materials are part of what is quickly becoming an important collection of Mexican American music at the Southwestern Writers Collection. This collection was created and maintained by Joe Nick in the process of writing the biography of Selena Quintanilla Perez. It is compiled of news clippings, manuscripts, interviews, photographs, court documents, notes, publicity materials, computer disks and ephemera. Dates range from 1961 to 1997. Joe Nick's research and writing processes, which began the day after Selena's death on March 31, 1995 and continued until January 1996, are reflected in this collection. read more
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Selena is a 1997 biopic about the life and career of Tejana singer Selena Quintanilla Perez (1971-1995). Selena was a Grammy Award-winning recording artist who was well known in the United States Mexican-American and other Latino communities, and Mexico. Music industry executives believed Selena was ready to cross-over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. pop charts when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club.
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A celebration of the life of Tejano princess Selena Quintanilla Perez, the rising star who was gunned down by the president of her own fan club in 1995. Amid the racial tensions and economic hardships of 1980's South Texas, the daughter of a Mexican immigrant (himself a failed doo-wop singer) grows up to be a sensation in the blossoming Tejano scene before meeting a tragic end. Light on insight, this biopic revels rather in Selena's on-stage achievements. Selena's father is credited as an executive producer to the film.
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Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez's fans cleaned up a trail of her blood after she fled from the motel room. Following the high-profile O.J. Simpson trial, prosecutors worried Yolanda Saldivar could be acquitted.
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By the age of 23, Selena Quintanilla Perez had seen almost all of her dreams come true. She and her family had risen together to a level of success they had hardly imagined, and their upward climb showed no signs of stopping. Selena, with her blend of natural talent, boundless energy and magnetic charm, was poised to become popular music's next big superstar, until her life was cut short at the hands of a friend she had thought loyal.
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Selena is the true-story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a talented young Mexican singer, who was discovered by her own father at the age of 10. Selena had everything going for her, a good family, whom she was very close with, a great husband, loads of fans and of course her music career that kept getting stronger. Selena had even won a prestigious Grammy award for Best Mexican/American Singer and was the most popular Latin singer at that time. Until, all that was taken away from her, when at the age of 23 in 1995, Selena's 'friend' and fan club manager, Yolanda Saldivar murdered her, after Selena had confronted Yolanda about money, she had stolen.
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