Selena (film)

Selena is a 1997 American biographical musical drama film about the life and career of the late Tejano music star Selena, a recording artist well known in the Mexican American and Hispanic communities in the United States and Mexico before she was murdered by Yolanda Saldvar, the president of her fan club at the age of 23.

The film opened on February 26, 1995, with Selena Jennifer Lopez performing to a soldout crowd of 65,000 at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The action then flashes back to 1961, where a young Abraham Quintanilla and his band, The Dinos, are rejected for an audition by a restaurant owner because they were Mexican and the resturaunt was all white. The owner of the restaurant was under the impression that The Dinos were a Italian group. Crushed, Abraham gives up music.The film moves ahead to 1981 where Abraham Edward James Olmos is now married to Marcella Constance Marie and has three children. When his youngest daughter Selena sings to him, he is enthralled by the quality of her voice and decides to start a band called Selena y los Dinos Selena and the Guys. He designates Selena as lead singer, his son A.B. Jacob Vargas on bass, and his older daughter Suzette Jackie Guerra on drums, despite Suzettes protests that girls dont play drums. ........

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