That moment established her as the de-facto Mexican-American entertainment hero for a bi-cultural generation of young Latinos in the U.S.
In an email to the El Paso Times twenty years later, a local music store owner in El Paso put Selena’s death into context: "Her tragic death was a flashpoint in time. Selena’s death created shockwaves in both Mexico and America. The season ends instead in 1991, introducing the agent of the tragedy, Yolanda Saldívar. Most of the series, however, is haunted by the singer’s violent death, for which the episodes seem to compensate with a gratuitous amount of pep and feel-good-ism-watching the show can feel, at times, like reading a hallmark card informing you of cancer.Ĭhronologically, the first season of Selena stops short of this tragedy-Selena’s murder in 1995. The nine-episode series follows the early career of American singer and “Queen of Tejano music” Selena Quintanilla-Pérez-or, mononymously, "Selena"-depicting her Texas childhood, her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, her early record deals, and her general ascent to megastardom. Selena: The Series has Tejano danced its way across the Netflix top 10, currently becoming the streaming service’s most popular property.
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