Selena Remembered 23 Years After Death

Saturday, March 31, 2018, marks 23 years since the death of Selena Quintanilla Perez, the Queen of Tejano music. Since her death, she's been honored with a wax figure, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, baby book, Mac makeup line, and more. Here's a look back on her life and achievements.

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Saturday, March 31, 2018, marks 23 years since the death of Selena Quintanilla Perez, the Queen of Tejano music. Since her death, she's been honored with a wax figure, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, baby book, Mac makeup line, and more. Here's a look back on her life and achievements.
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Saturday, March 31, 2018, marks 23 years since the death of Selena Quintanilla Perez, the Queen of Tejano music. Since her death, she's been honored with a wax figure, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, baby book, Mac makeup line, and more. Here's a look back on her life and achievements.
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In this cover image released by Celebra, "To Selena, with Love," by Chris Perez, is shown. Perez says the book, released Tuesday, allows him to share his memories of his wife, the late Selena Quintanilla. (AP Photo/Celebra)
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Selena Quintanilla-Perez was gunned down at a Corpus Christi motel on March 31, 1995.
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Selena Quintanilla-Pérez performing in Lake Jackson, Texas.
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Selena was also known as the "Queen of Tejano Music."
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In this photo provided by New Line Cinema, Grammy Award-winning star Selena is pictured in a scene from "Don Juan DeMarco", 1994. She sings with a Mariachi band in a brief cameo appearance in the film. (AP Photo/New Line Cinema/Merrick Morton)
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Tejano star Selena, left, watches as Yolanda Saldivar speaks to a crowd at a post-1994 Tejano Music Awards party in San Antonio, Texas. Saldivar is accused of shooting Selena to death in a Corpus Christi motel room Friday, March 31, 1995. (AP Photo)
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Selena (1971-1995) was born in Lake Jackson.
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Lil' Libros, the publishers who are based in Los Angeles, will release "The Life of/La Vida de Selena," a book on the late Tejano singer, on March 13, weeks before the anniversary of her death.
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A limited edition line of bags inspired by the late Tejano singer were sold throughout Texas by HEB grocery stores.
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Singer Selena Quintanilla Perez inside nightclub. (Photo by Pam Francis/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
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Chris Perez, bottom left, the former husband of the late singer Selena Quintanilla, puts flowers down on her new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as he poses with, left to right, Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla III, her sister Suzette, and her parents Marcella Ofelia Samora and Abraham Quintanilla Jr. during a posthumous star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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MAN12. Hollywood (United States), 04/11/2017.- A fan dressed as the late US-Mexican singer Selena Quintanilla attends the posthumous star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California, USA, 03 November 2017. Selena Quintanilla, 'The Queen of Tejano Music' was killed on 31 March 1995. Selena received the 2,622 star in the recording category. (Estados Unidos) EFE/EPA/MIKE NELSON
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Abby who calls herself "#1 fan of Selena!"
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Olivia dresses as Little Selena.
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In a once long-lost TV interview discovered after 20 years, Selena talks about winning a Grammy and being in awe of other celebrities.
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15-day-old Natalia Gallegos channels Tejano pop star Selena in her newborn photo shoot.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA - AUGUST 30: Madame Tussauds Hollywood's unveiling of GRAMMY award winner and cultural icon Selena Quintanilla immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds on August 30, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Madame Tussauds Hollywood)
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Selena, a year before she was slain, in 1994.
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In 1998 a museum in memory of Selena was inaugurated. The museum and the statue are visited every week by fans.
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In 1998 a museum in memory of Selena was inaugurated. The museum and the statue are visited every week by fans.
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In 1993, her album "Selena Live!" won the Grammy Award for the best Mexican-American music album, and a year later she released album "Amor Prohibido" which was nominated for a Grammy Award.
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