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Selena
1971-1995
Spanish-language superstar
Cause of Death: Shot by No. 1 fan
Life After Death: More than a decade after being gunned down by her fan club president, Yolanda Saldivar, Selena’s global sales and celebrity have been eclipsed by another Latino singer-cum-filmstar—Jennifer Lopez, whose big break came when she played the slain singer in the biopic Selena. But she remains a major figure in Latin music.
The Show Must Go On: This year, 50,000 fans attended the Selena Vive! tribute concert in Houston, Texas, featuring Glorian Estefan and Paulina Rubio. At more than three hours long, it became the highest-rated and most-viewed Spanish-language show in U.S. television history, adding a substantial boost to sales of her back catalogue (around 20 posthumous
collections have been released to date) and other merchandise, which includes a Selena doll, Selena perfume and Selena baseball caps in rhinestone and leopard-print.
Mas Selena: There are plans for a Selena stage musical to open in Mexico City, and while the Selena boutique in San Antonio has closed and plans to open another in Monterrey were shelved, the branch in her Texas hometown of Corpus Christi—and the Selena museum there—continue to do business.