Anniversary of the shooting and the lasting fandom of the singer of the singer’s conditional release of the singer

In the Oak Cliff district of Dallas, fans had gathered to celebrate the singer’s life for the 10th annual festivities of 214selena.

“We are simply celebrating this inheritance, taking the time to hold space for all those who connect with this identity of Tejano,” said the singer and summer fan Romero to NBC Dallas.

The Selena Fandom has transformed over the years, starting with people like Alemán, who grew up when he saw the late singer perform live in southern Texas. For them, Selena is a cultural marker for Americans of Mexican origin and Latinos who reached age in the early 1990s.

Thanks to his sense of music and fashion, many have seen their own bicultural experiences reflected in the history of Selena’s life. Selena Quintanilla-Pérez has become a brilliant star in the genre dominated by the men of Tejano music, winning a Grammy in 1994 and becoming a crossed Latina icon singing in English and Spanish.

But then Selena won a ton of new fans of all ages, including Susan, when the singer’s eponymous biopic was released in 1997. Not only did the film helped Catapult J.LO to the career, but he also presented a lot to the history of Selena’s life and tragic events around his death.

“This is the first memory I have of Selena. It is actually to see his film in the theater when I was in seventh year,” said Susan.

This perhaps explains why Leila Cobo, director of Latin and Spanish music content in Billboard, says that Selena is one of the five best Latin artists of the charts each year, remaining a pillar of the history of Latin music in the United States and in the world.

The anticipation of Saldívar’s admissibility to parole this week had been built in the past year after the release of controversial documentation in which Saldívar said that she had not intentionally killed Selena. In a statement, the Conditional Liberations Commission said it thought, on the basis of the evidence provided to it, that Saldívar still posed “a continuous threat to public security”.

Alemán explained that for fans of Selena, his death “increased in this level of collective injustice, a collective sorrow. In the eyes of those who love him so dearly, what happened was so unfair. ”

Regarding Saldívar, “there will never be a time when she finished paying for this sin she has committed,” said Alemán.

The Quintanilla family and Chris Pérez, Selena’s husband, thanked the fans of Selena “for their unwavering support over the years” in a joint declaration after the denial of parole of Saldívar. “Your love was a source of strength and healing.”

“Selena’s heritage is that of love, music and inspiration. She lived with joy, gave altruistic way and continues to raise generations with her voice and her mind,” said the declaration. “We will continue to celebrate Selena’s life – not the tragedy that has taken it to us – and we ask that all those who cherish it do the same.”

In his university class, Alemán helps to promote a new generation of fans of Selena who create an academic work body and archives full of stories and memories of the Queeno music of Tejano.

“The knowledge that the community has on whom it is, why it counts for them, deserves to be studied,” said Alemán.