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Corpus christi amanda solis
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corpus christi amanda solis

Fans on social media have even joked that the show should’ve been called “the Quintanillas.” While the late “ Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” singer is meant to be the star, she’s treated as more of a side character, or even as an employee of her dad’s band, which he formed to chase his own dream of being a successful musician.

corpus christi amanda solis

One of the biggest issues fans are having with the show is the lack of complexity and development in the characters, Selena included. Now that Selena: The Series, the Netflix show executive-produced by her 82-year-old father Abraham Quintanilla, has been streaming (it returns for its second season on May 4th), it’s become even more apparent to viewers that they are only getting one side of the story. Yet, for the past 25 years, her fans have been questioning her family’s aggressive attempts at controlling her legacy. Selena became a crossover star after her death, and her legend only continues to grow thanks to the fans and a myth that is still carefully cultivated by her family. All these decades later, fans still put her photos up on their Día De Muertos ofrendas and dress up in her most famous outfits on the anniversary of her death.

corpus christi amanda solis

In her home state of Texas, they painted large murals of her, erected a statue, named a park in her honor and made her Corpus Christi music studio into a museum. When Dreaming of You, her first English-language album, was released posthumously that summer, it sold over 175,000 copies in a single day and eventually over 3 million copies. For some it was like a close relative had been assassinated and an untouchable, living religious diva was extinguished before she could perform her miracles. After the Queen of Tejano music was murdered on March 31st, 1995 - shot once in the back by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar - her Mexican American fans mourned her. The subculture of Selena Quintanilla Pérez super-fandom, or Selenidad, was born out of grief.














Corpus christi amanda solis