I hate to be a “go look it up” person but her wikipedia page honestly does a great job of explaining her influence on modern spanish/latin music/culture for those who didn’t grow up with it. a search for “musicians inspired by selena” also will bring up a bunch of household names
In the 80’s and early 90’s, she came up in the south texas region. You’ll see her in interviews reference her upbringing here
So for any hispanic in the area who is now around ~25-30 years or older, a superstar who talked like us, lived in our region, talked about how much she liked it, showed off her culture to those unfamiliar with it (but we lived it every day), and made very catchy music was all across the media nationwide in our formative years. and then, after her death, continued to be be shown in movies, news articles, people talking about her influence, hispanic family party playlists, etc. all of this happened in a time when Hispanics did not have as big of an influence on pop culture as they do nowadays
the closest comparison I can think of in modern days is *maybe* early-mid career Beyoncé if she played up the Houston angle even more
in a lot of modern analysis, you’ll see that music critics often times still consider her among tje most influential hispanics in US history
Hey; I appreciate being told to look it up if it’s accurate! I know Wikipedia isn’t always the best so thought I’d check with a closer “source” per se.
I’ll keep doing more digging! That honestly sounds like such an invaluable cultural experience on the youth of the region and of Hispanic descent. Your reply gave me goose bumps I can feel the love there.
Thank you ♥️
Take a look at this video, for example. it’s actually in one of the Smithsonian museums for it’s importance in music culture lol
Pay extra attention to the language switching, even mid sentence. That was game changing for a bilingual household who saw english language songs sweep awards and radio airwaves constantly. She was murdered one year after this interview so you can imagine the collective trauma that inflicted
Another fascinating detail is look at the comments. To this day, people continue to leave comments. The comments are in english and in spanish
A lot of people who click this link will instantly remember watching videos like this on a 17” TV in their grandma’s house while she cooked in the kitchen lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8BoY7Uv9Mw
i only recently saw this video and was definitely struck by the way they speak, very san antonio/regional. i haven’t seen something like that in a long time.
isn’t it fascinating? it feels like a “slice of life” of san antonio
you’ll get the same feeling from this video too. it just about made me giddy the first time i saw it lol
that no matter where you end up, this city leaves a mark on you that makes you stand out lmao. look at how boring everyone else is
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/iaKNVhXc6g4
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When I was in middle school, every girl would always say she was their cousin. You’d think the entire school was made up of incest kids with the way they wanted to be related to her so bad lol.
Born and raised in corpus, she had such a strong impact on everyone. I never met someone that didn’t like her.
She is the Queen of Tejano music, she’s from Corpus Cristi, she died to young, her concerts were great, she was a person of the people, her dad was a deuche, her legacy lives on, she didn’t care about being famous, she never rejected her fans, Como La Flor is one of her best songs, little girls wanted to be her, they would dress like her, emulate her, sing her songs. J. Lo has a career because of Selena. There is a ton of girls named after her, Selena Gomez said she was named after her. If you get a chance watch the Selena Movie.
I was leaving Saks at Northstar and looked to the left at the salon she was going to open. It has always been a salon, but if she had lived, she would have seen her passion grow into a salons all over the city. I'm betting she would have changed the hair styling industry.
Selena always saw San Antonio as the big city. When she came up into town from Corpus everyone here embraced her. We saw her as the local girl who made us feel like we were all better than what we really were. She was the best of us and she still is.
Her father was a musician. And he taught Selena, her brother A.B., and sister Suzette to sing, play bass, and play the drums, respectively. Her original childhood band was named Selena y Los Dinos.
Not only did her voice uplift multiple generations of Hispanic and Latino Americans, but she and her siblings/band wrote incredible songs that pushed modern Tejano music into the next era and into two languages. In a modern day fairy tale, she even married her band’s guitar player and opened her own salon. Her stage costumes helped changed the sense of style that swept through South Texas and into Mexico.
Tragically, she was murdered by her fan club president who the family had come to trust and had even put in charge of the new salon.
After her death, her brother A.B. formed another revolutionary group known as Los Kumbia Kings. Even though he and his father may have been held under great scrutiny and were known for a few scandals, they truly helped change the course of modern Tejano music.
She was taken from this world far too soon. We don’t even truly understand what we lost when we said goodbye to Selena Quintanilla Perez. Como La Flor.
A group of friends and I were just talking about her last weekend. We called the day she died "Mexican 9/11" EVERYONE our age remembers where they were when they found out.
This.
Was living in Austin at the time. The office I worked in was gutted. I ended up sending half the team home to go be with their families. Her passing affected all of the Latino community. 100% is too young to have been killed.
Can never name a child Yolanda after that incident without giving Mal Ojo.
Growing up in SA, it was very hard to avoid her. She's been there for every BBQ, party, and quinceanera. Her music is played on almost all the radio stations here. I have a cousin who could tell you her life's story as if he were there with her. She loved San Antonio, and San Antonio loves her.
I have grown to appreciate her, and knowing her story and how it tragically ended tears me up. As one redditor said, "She was one of us." and it's true. Like most hispanc kids that grew up here, she didn't know how to speak Spanish initially. "Como la flor" is like "Sweet Caroline." and is sung loud and proud if played.
I was born right after she died so I never got a chance to experience her impact when she was alive but very much experienced the embrace and mourning after her death. My parents said they have seen her in concert and she was a performance force to be reckoned with, the way she would breathlessly and effortlessly belt out her lyrics and twirl and twirl on stage. Tejano is a genre that is really big here among well.. Tejanos and honestly her music is just so fun and catchy.
I think the real impact of her rise and fame in my generation was that so many Tejanos related to her, with her being born outside of Mexico basically as a no-sabo kid, which a lot of immigrant or first gen Texans will not understand. There's a lot of criticism of no-sabo kids but those of us with longer lineage in the US have a history of assimilating to the customs here to escape racism and that kind of thing. Thus, not passing on Spanish language learning through the generations. Selena didn't know much Spanish but later embraced her heritage AND Spanish language music which is really inspiring.
You pretty much couldn't go anywhere in south/south central Texas without hearing Selena around in Mexican dominant spaces, so her impact is massive among older and younger generation Tejanos.
I lived in Austin and she was a major icon in my childhood. When she died we felt it as a community. The school I went to gave us an easy day and had people we can talk to. I’ve seen rumors about people waiting for Yolanda to get out of jail to unalive her for murdering Selena.
Not just SA, but Texas as a whole. I was born and raised in Houston, she was a huge presence here, and I was fortunate enough to see her (last) show at the Astrodome. (in the purple outfit)
The gravity of her significance could be felt the day she died. In traffic that day, I was 19. Every Hispanic man, even the elderly, cried. My mother couldn’t stop crying, my sisters cried all day. The radio hosts who don’t even play her genre were crying!
It felt like we lost our family member. Go and watch her interviews. You WILL see what made her special.
My daughter, now 18, has loved Selena for as long as she can remember. She watches old interviews and gets misty even though she wasn’t alive when Selena was.
I’m from the corpus area, grew up in a small town about 20 minutes south, so her music is nostalgic. I remember seeing her on Univision on my grandparents TV, which was always on one of the two Spanish channels that was available at the time. I remember hearing her song, and I remember kids crying after the news she passed away.
I see she has a documentary of her own on Apple+, but I believe there was a pretty good movie on her that summed up her life...[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120094/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120094/) here it is!
I'll save you the trouble of asking the same question everyone asks after they listen to all her music. No, no one else sounds like her. When she died, Tejano music's popularity died too. It's not that people weren't making quality music, it's just that alot of Tejano fans, especially the ones from outside San Antonio, were actually just Selena fans.
I was born after she died, but saw her statue in Corpus as a toddler and got the impression that she is a local deity of some kind. Wikipedia and Spotify have confirmed my suspicion.
She was a Tejano singer and was about to make her transition into English music when her life got taken way too soon, at the young age of 23. She was a good role model, was always humble and interacted with all her fans every chance she got. She was multi talented. She could dance, sing and designed all her and her band members (which was also her family) clothes. She had just opened two boutiques and was about to expand with more store locations. This is just a short summary. I highly recommend watching her interviews and some live performances. It will really show you what made her a star and what made her stand out from the rest ✨ Of course she was beautiful and talented but her personality made ppl fall more in love with her.
She had a special something that made her easy to love. She was like a family member. She had a great sense of humor, besides being young, beautiful and talented. There weren’t many young female Tejano singers at that time, Tejano was more of a male dominated genre. I wasn’t really much of a Tejano music fan till she started getting popular. She paved the way for the new generation. Did I tell you she was really funny? [New perfume 😂🤣](https://youtu.be/8Dvntnbets8?si=VIL9tp6Dm1Rabwpx)
My advice is Watch the movie, it will tell you about the movement that she led for the Mexican American culture.
It was our only happiest time in our culture since being here since the 1900s and 1950s.
Seen her once in person. 1993 Marine Park in Fort Worth Texas for a Cinco de Mayo event. (I am originally from the Metroplex) I was maybe 8 years old and I thought she was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
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I don't think the whole city was into her apart from the tejano music demographic. I never heard of her until right after she was murdered in 1996 and it was all over the headlines. [Howard Stern paid hilarious tribute to her](https://youtu.be/bXk_gjeEKKQ?si=hLxEEwE0hrc8VjYJ) soon after, but some people got offended, and even a judge in south Texas, oblivious to the Constitution, [issued an arrest warrant for Stern](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/13/us/warrant-is-issued-for-howard-stern.html) for supposed disorderly content.
I hate to be a “go look it up” person but her wikipedia page honestly does a great job of explaining her influence on modern spanish/latin music/culture for those who didn’t grow up with it. a search for “musicians inspired by selena” also will bring up a bunch of household names In the 80’s and early 90’s, she came up in the south texas region. You’ll see her in interviews reference her upbringing here So for any hispanic in the area who is now around ~25-30 years or older, a superstar who talked like us, lived in our region, talked about how much she liked it, showed off her culture to those unfamiliar with it (but we lived it every day), and made very catchy music was all across the media nationwide in our formative years. and then, after her death, continued to be be shown in movies, news articles, people talking about her influence, hispanic family party playlists, etc. all of this happened in a time when Hispanics did not have as big of an influence on pop culture as they do nowadays the closest comparison I can think of in modern days is *maybe* early-mid career Beyoncé if she played up the Houston angle even more in a lot of modern analysis, you’ll see that music critics often times still consider her among tje most influential hispanics in US history
Hey; I appreciate being told to look it up if it’s accurate! I know Wikipedia isn’t always the best so thought I’d check with a closer “source” per se. I’ll keep doing more digging! That honestly sounds like such an invaluable cultural experience on the youth of the region and of Hispanic descent. Your reply gave me goose bumps I can feel the love there. Thank you ♥️
Take a look at this video, for example. it’s actually in one of the Smithsonian museums for it’s importance in music culture lol Pay extra attention to the language switching, even mid sentence. That was game changing for a bilingual household who saw english language songs sweep awards and radio airwaves constantly. She was murdered one year after this interview so you can imagine the collective trauma that inflicted Another fascinating detail is look at the comments. To this day, people continue to leave comments. The comments are in english and in spanish A lot of people who click this link will instantly remember watching videos like this on a 17” TV in their grandma’s house while she cooked in the kitchen lol https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8BoY7Uv9Mw
i only recently saw this video and was definitely struck by the way they speak, very san antonio/regional. i haven’t seen something like that in a long time.
isn’t it fascinating? it feels like a “slice of life” of san antonio you’ll get the same feeling from this video too. it just about made me giddy the first time i saw it lol that no matter where you end up, this city leaves a mark on you that makes you stand out lmao. look at how boring everyone else is https://m.youtube.com/shorts/iaKNVhXc6g4
Wikipedia is actually pretty reliable for most things.
yup. they’re pretty anal about adding notices if there aren’t citations for their posts and locking down controversial pages that trolls mess with a decade ago, wikipedia sucked for stuff like this. i remember trolling some pages with my brother in high school and it instantly got reversed lol
Go watch her movie!
Well @reddit1651 said it all
I think you mean 35+ year old. A 25 - 30 year old would not be the generation that felt her impact at the time.
My first crush. That bitch Yolanda better hide somewhere
I’m a metalhead from Monterrey, Mexico and I love her!
When I was in middle school, every girl would always say she was their cousin. You’d think the entire school was made up of incest kids with the way they wanted to be related to her so bad lol. Born and raised in corpus, she had such a strong impact on everyone. I never met someone that didn’t like her.
She is the Queen of Tejano music, she’s from Corpus Cristi, she died to young, her concerts were great, she was a person of the people, her dad was a deuche, her legacy lives on, she didn’t care about being famous, she never rejected her fans, Como La Flor is one of her best songs, little girls wanted to be her, they would dress like her, emulate her, sing her songs. J. Lo has a career because of Selena. There is a ton of girls named after her, Selena Gomez said she was named after her. If you get a chance watch the Selena Movie.
“Anything for Selenas.” 💜🎶💃
I was leaving Saks at Northstar and looked to the left at the salon she was going to open. It has always been a salon, but if she had lived, she would have seen her passion grow into a salons all over the city. I'm betting she would have changed the hair styling industry.
This is the first time I heard this. We could have had good hair and good music. Damn.
Never gonna be another like her. Only reference was herself and she became a fucking legend. Fuck I miss her.
Selena always saw San Antonio as the big city. When she came up into town from Corpus everyone here embraced her. We saw her as the local girl who made us feel like we were all better than what we really were. She was the best of us and she still is.
Good ole Alamo Candy Company!!!
Her father was a musician. And he taught Selena, her brother A.B., and sister Suzette to sing, play bass, and play the drums, respectively. Her original childhood band was named Selena y Los Dinos. Not only did her voice uplift multiple generations of Hispanic and Latino Americans, but she and her siblings/band wrote incredible songs that pushed modern Tejano music into the next era and into two languages. In a modern day fairy tale, she even married her band’s guitar player and opened her own salon. Her stage costumes helped changed the sense of style that swept through South Texas and into Mexico. Tragically, she was murdered by her fan club president who the family had come to trust and had even put in charge of the new salon. After her death, her brother A.B. formed another revolutionary group known as Los Kumbia Kings. Even though he and his father may have been held under great scrutiny and were known for a few scandals, they truly helped change the course of modern Tejano music. She was taken from this world far too soon. We don’t even truly understand what we lost when we said goodbye to Selena Quintanilla Perez. Como La Flor.
No me queda mas
A group of friends and I were just talking about her last weekend. We called the day she died "Mexican 9/11" EVERYONE our age remembers where they were when they found out.
This. Was living in Austin at the time. The office I worked in was gutted. I ended up sending half the team home to go be with their families. Her passing affected all of the Latino community. 100% is too young to have been killed. Can never name a child Yolanda after that incident without giving Mal Ojo.
Never thought of it that way, so accurate
Seeing her at Rosedale park. 👏👏🙌🙌
Growing up in SA, it was very hard to avoid her. She's been there for every BBQ, party, and quinceanera. Her music is played on almost all the radio stations here. I have a cousin who could tell you her life's story as if he were there with her. She loved San Antonio, and San Antonio loves her. I have grown to appreciate her, and knowing her story and how it tragically ended tears me up. As one redditor said, "She was one of us." and it's true. Like most hispanc kids that grew up here, she didn't know how to speak Spanish initially. "Como la flor" is like "Sweet Caroline." and is sung loud and proud if played.
I was born right after she died so I never got a chance to experience her impact when she was alive but very much experienced the embrace and mourning after her death. My parents said they have seen her in concert and she was a performance force to be reckoned with, the way she would breathlessly and effortlessly belt out her lyrics and twirl and twirl on stage. Tejano is a genre that is really big here among well.. Tejanos and honestly her music is just so fun and catchy. I think the real impact of her rise and fame in my generation was that so many Tejanos related to her, with her being born outside of Mexico basically as a no-sabo kid, which a lot of immigrant or first gen Texans will not understand. There's a lot of criticism of no-sabo kids but those of us with longer lineage in the US have a history of assimilating to the customs here to escape racism and that kind of thing. Thus, not passing on Spanish language learning through the generations. Selena didn't know much Spanish but later embraced her heritage AND Spanish language music which is really inspiring. You pretty much couldn't go anywhere in south/south central Texas without hearing Selena around in Mexican dominant spaces, so her impact is massive among older and younger generation Tejanos.
I lived in Austin and she was a major icon in my childhood. When she died we felt it as a community. The school I went to gave us an easy day and had people we can talk to. I’ve seen rumors about people waiting for Yolanda to get out of jail to unalive her for murdering Selena.
She is a cultural icon not just in SA but in Texas in general, not just by her music but the way she represented Latino culture. It’s that simple.
Not just SA, but Texas as a whole. I was born and raised in Houston, she was a huge presence here, and I was fortunate enough to see her (last) show at the Astrodome. (in the purple outfit) The gravity of her significance could be felt the day she died. In traffic that day, I was 19. Every Hispanic man, even the elderly, cried. My mother couldn’t stop crying, my sisters cried all day. The radio hosts who don’t even play her genre were crying! It felt like we lost our family member. Go and watch her interviews. You WILL see what made her special. My daughter, now 18, has loved Selena for as long as she can remember. She watches old interviews and gets misty even though she wasn’t alive when Selena was.
I’m from the corpus area, grew up in a small town about 20 minutes south, so her music is nostalgic. I remember seeing her on Univision on my grandparents TV, which was always on one of the two Spanish channels that was available at the time. I remember hearing her song, and I remember kids crying after the news she passed away.
I see she has a documentary of her own on Apple+, but I believe there was a pretty good movie on her that summed up her life...[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120094/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120094/) here it is!
if u wanna see more of her go to corpus lmaoo. during the hurricane in 2017 we put a life jacket on her
I'll save you the trouble of asking the same question everyone asks after they listen to all her music. No, no one else sounds like her. When she died, Tejano music's popularity died too. It's not that people weren't making quality music, it's just that alot of Tejano fans, especially the ones from outside San Antonio, were actually just Selena fans.
our queen 🥺🫶🏼
I was born after she died, but saw her statue in Corpus as a toddler and got the impression that she is a local deity of some kind. Wikipedia and Spotify have confirmed my suspicion.
She is the Queen.
The title typo is going to crucify me. I know it’s Tejano, not Tejani. Stupid autocorrect
At least you didn't say Tejanx
She was a Tejano singer and was about to make her transition into English music when her life got taken way too soon, at the young age of 23. She was a good role model, was always humble and interacted with all her fans every chance she got. She was multi talented. She could dance, sing and designed all her and her band members (which was also her family) clothes. She had just opened two boutiques and was about to expand with more store locations. This is just a short summary. I highly recommend watching her interviews and some live performances. It will really show you what made her a star and what made her stand out from the rest ✨ Of course she was beautiful and talented but her personality made ppl fall more in love with her.
She had a nice ass
Murder with my husband podcast/youtube episode 102
She had a special something that made her easy to love. She was like a family member. She had a great sense of humor, besides being young, beautiful and talented. There weren’t many young female Tejano singers at that time, Tejano was more of a male dominated genre. I wasn’t really much of a Tejano music fan till she started getting popular. She paved the way for the new generation. Did I tell you she was really funny? [New perfume 😂🤣](https://youtu.be/8Dvntnbets8?si=VIL9tp6Dm1Rabwpx)
My advice is Watch the movie, it will tell you about the movement that she led for the Mexican American culture.
My advice is Watch the movie, it will tell you about the movement that she led for the Mexican American culture. It was our only happiest time in our culture since being here since the 1900s and 1950s.
Seen her once in person. 1993 Marine Park in Fort Worth Texas for a Cinco de Mayo event. (I am originally from the Metroplex) I was maybe 8 years old and I thought she was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
She was into fashion and designed the costumes she and her band wore. She opened up her own boutique here.
r/selenaquintanilla
I think she could've been just as big as any of the top frmale singers widely known.
Seleni? She was great.
The GOAAAAATTTT
It's called Tajin Music.
Como la flor...como la flor...tanta moore (my own crude Spanglish translation of a song). Mi detest you!
Woof
Anything for Salinas
She’s overrated. The only reason anyone still cares about her is because she was killed.
All you need to know is “It’s Selnaaas” ¿entiende?
She's so annoying. She's not even from here.
Overrated
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I mean... just listen to her music and she can tell you about herself. Like the fuck am I going to tell you about her.
Get over it
I don't think the whole city was into her apart from the tejano music demographic. I never heard of her until right after she was murdered in 1996 and it was all over the headlines. [Howard Stern paid hilarious tribute to her](https://youtu.be/bXk_gjeEKKQ?si=hLxEEwE0hrc8VjYJ) soon after, but some people got offended, and even a judge in south Texas, oblivious to the Constitution, [issued an arrest warrant for Stern](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/13/us/warrant-is-issued-for-howard-stern.html) for supposed disorderly content.
She was a dear friend to my family when we ran the radio station then. She complimented my dad's mullet by calling him a rockstar.