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15 years…
12:09 pm By la Macha · Tejano Culture|Texas
1 Apr 2010Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of Selena Quintanilla Perez’s murder. Can you believe that? It’s been fifteen years. I still remember the day she was murdered–the confusion, the anger, the overwhelming sadness. Just thinking about how much life I’ve lived in the past fifteen years–kids, jobs, partnerships, sunrises, thunderstorms–makes me sure that Selena just didn’t get the time she should’ve.
What memories do you have of Selena?
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4 Responses to 15 years…
M.A.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:09 pm
That I was in jr. high and had just become a fan. A friend of mine had gotten me into her music. It was a cryshing blow to her because she was a huge fan. It seems like she was just ready to gain a whole new audience, it was right around the corner, which is sad to think of what could’ve been, but looking at people like my friend, she had all ready touched the lives of so many.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 9:59 pm
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guera
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 pm
i remember hearing her songs at birthday parties and Quinceañera and other parties I went to during the 90′s. I recall my sister crying and locking herself in her room listing bidi bidi bom bom. She will always be the The Queen of Tejano music Every time I hear her songs, I think of childhood. “Dreaming of you”, was the first song I wanted to slow dance with a boy!
la Macha
April 3rd, 2010 at 8:40 am
bidi bidi bom bom was my *favorite* song for the longest time–i love that dreaming of you is the first song you want to slow dance to–it was such a sweet innocent song–it would’ve been perfect.
m.a.–you are so right, she *did* touch the lives of so many–for me, i don’t *look* like her-but I have the same features as her–really black hair, light skin, it was the first time i’d ever been “confirmed”–i grew up in a really migratory community with mostly native Mexicans who were really brown skinned–and I was always the “not *really* Mexican”–they’d never seen anybody like me, until Selena–and so I always had to prove I was Mexican.
Of course, now, I recognize that the majority of people in pop culture, in mainstream Latino media, in music, etc–look like me and it’s considered desirable and I see all the colorism and outright racism of that. but back then, when the internet wasn’t quite as big as it is today, when cable didn’t carry the spanish stations, when tejano was just some odd music The Mexkins listen to when they play soccer on the weekends–this girl was HUGE for me…