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Yes, I'm here now. Sorry.

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This isn't live, right?

3
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Not yet.
- Because this thing is loose.

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You're about to
to the American music world...

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to give a completely new perspective.

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Right?
- I hope so.

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Did I sound nervous?

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Unbelievable.

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I'm stuck at words,
I try to translate them...

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How...
- It was fine.

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Was that okay?
- Fine.

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They're going to do another one.

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I started singing at the age of six.

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I sang for the family
and at family gatherings.

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My father had to force our relatives
to listen to us.

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And we worked so hard.

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It was tough, right now
to see that it leads somewhere...

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the fact that we are successful is exciting.

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It's compelling,
what's happening in my life.

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As a child I was very shy.

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I had a phase where I wanted it,
but I thought: What will they think?

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And we have been through a lot
to get where we are now.

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I never expected to be here.

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And that so many people listen to us.

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But here we are, 14 years later.

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The Spanish-speaking community
was ignored for a long time, or worse...

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but that seems to be changing.

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Selena Quintanilla is our great pride,
and the queen of Tejano music.

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She was a beacon of hope
and possibilities for a generation.

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She overcame all obstacles.

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The sex discrimination,
Mexican-American discrimination.

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The obstacles of the industry.

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How are you, Houston, Texas?

34
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Thank you very much.

35
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Many Latinos or Hispanics
are now more proud of their culture.

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That's why they grow.
I think the music will continue to grow.

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And you are at the forefront of that growth.

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I would like to take credit,
but it's teamwork.

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My brother is a producer.
My father is the manager.

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And my sister is the drummer in the band.

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It's a family affair.
- Yes.

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Many people ask me:

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'How do you keep it up?
to work with your family?'

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We love and respect each other,
outside of music.

45
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That is one of the keys to our success.
Together we are strong.

46
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Not many people can keep that up for that long.

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You enjoy life.
- Always has, but even more so now.

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Selena y Los Dinos builds
a musical empire, after years...

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The merging of cultures,
Latino and American.

50
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She was adored by millions.

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Selena was the first star
of a bicultural community.

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She became an important figure
in American entertainment.

53
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What and who she was,
what she meant to the people.

54
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Houston, Texas

55
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and our brothers from Mexico

56
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Our success, and what happens around us,
is very exciting.

57
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I would like to grow internationally.

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Make yourself heard.

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Making the group world famous.

60
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But with more energy.

61
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It's going to be hard work
but I'm ready.

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I've always said
that music is like a drug addiction.

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You become addicted to it.
Once it gets into your system...

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it will remain that way for the rest of your life.

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I am Abraham Quintanilla Junior.
Here comes my family.

66
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This is my beautiful wife.

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Marcella Quintanilla.
She's a bit shy, but...

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This is Selena Quintanilla, the smallest.
She's the little coyote.

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Suzette Quintanilla.
And my son A.B., Abraham the third.

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When I met him...

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I didn't know he was a singer.

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I just found out
when we were already married.

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When I was around 15 years old,
I joined a group, The Dinos.

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We recorded all the songs in English.

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We didn't know one Spanish song.
That was quite embarrassing.

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Because Spanish was my native language,
even though I was born here.

77
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I grew up
in a time of segregation.

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We are a group that believes...

79
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that we have been treated
as second-class citizens.

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We would like...

81
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I remember
that we would play in a club.

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The owner was an Anglo.
And a whole group of Mexicans enter.

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He was surprised.

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He says, "Hey, what are you doing here?"

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We said, 'We are The Dinos.'

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He thought The Dinos
was an Italian group.

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He said, "Can you wait outside?"
And then gave me five dollars.

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He rejected us because we were Mexicans.

89
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So I thought: If we
wanted to be successful...

90
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we have to play
for Mexican-Americans.

91
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Then we focused completely
to Tejano music.

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The group became popular,
and we played all over the US.

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I got A.B., and Abraham was on tour.

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He was often away for a week,
sometimes two weeks, sometimes a month.

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That was tough.

96
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When Suzette was born...

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he took me to the hospital
and said goodbye...

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because he had to go to a performance.

99
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Sometimes when I came home,
recognized A.B. not me.

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He was afraid of me.
Then I started thinking and said:

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"I have to stop."

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CHEMISTRY COMPANY DOW
PRESENTS

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Ethylene, electricity,
lime kilns, magnesium, bromine.

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I resigned
and moved to Lake Jackson, Texas.

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Went to work for Dow Chemical.

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That was tough
because I had a hard time accepting...

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that that was my life now.

108
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A few years later
Marcella felt something in her body.

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A woman feels something like that. She was pregnant.

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A girl was born,
but we had no name.

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A lady in the hospital
said to Marcella:

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'If I had had a girl,
I would have named her Selena.'

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I said, 'Nice name.'
You don't hear that often from Mexicans.

114
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I looked him up. It's a Greek name,
and it means 'moon goddess'.

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I always came home
before Marcella started cooking.

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Then I played something on my guitar.

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And one day Selena came,
who was six at the time...

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sat next to me and she started singing.

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Then I realized:
"Girl, you have a talent for singing."

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Four.

121
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Her talent was incredible.

122
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Even when she was very young.

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I bought some instruments.

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A bass guitar for my son, A.B.

125
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I put it on with a strap like that.

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And I picked up the bass guitar
and looked in the mirror.

127
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And I thought, Yeah, you're going to be a rock star.
One day you'll be a rock star.

128
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Then they said, 'Who's going to play drums?'

129
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And my father said:
"We have one child left."

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He looked at me and said:
'Suzette is going to play drums.'

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I said, 'Wait, what? No, Dad.”

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Get the drummer. I want the drummer.
- The drummer laughs.

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Okay.

134
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Now we have the guitarist,
the drummer and the singer.

135
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I have a group.

136
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As a child you want to play outside
with your friends.

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And Dad forced us every day
to practice for 15 minutes.

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We screamed and shouted. We cried.

139
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It wasn't easy.

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I was strict.

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You have to learn it.

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I saw a way back into the music world.

143
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Then the wheels started turning again.

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No experience in the hospitality industry at all.

145
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We bought a space, a big space.

146
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I was excited when we opened.

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It was something different.

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I made a little dance floor
and a small stage.

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My children played there.

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People stood up
and danced on the dance floor.

151
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He saw potential in us, I think.

152
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He thought: You have the Jacksons too, right?
I'm going to make the Mexican Jacksons.

153
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I went to high school.

154
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We had to play on the weekend,
that was very embarrassing.

155
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Selena loved it,
because she got a tip.

156
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She thought it was all wonderful.

157
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It's a lot of work.
But I like it a lot.

158
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It was a wonderful time in our lives.

159
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Unfortunately
they stopped drilling for oil...

160
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and the economy there...

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Totally collapsed.

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Due to the low oil price
it's not worth drilling.

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The oil trade and its workers
are entering a difficult period.

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We tried to hold on
and keep the restaurant open.

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But we had to close it.

166
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Of course it had
also consequences for our house.

167
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We lost our house.

168
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Eventually we had to move.

169
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I had invested everything
at the restaurant, and I was broke.

170
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Marcella said:
"We have to go to the food bank."

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We walked inside.
It was very busy.

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A big, heavy woman
saw Selena as soon as we walked in.

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She said, 'Look, that girl
sings in the restaurant.'

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When she said that, I stood still and said:
"We're not in the right place."

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I turned and walked away.
I said, 'I'm not going back.'

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REPORT HERE
JOB SEEKERS

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Abraham's next idea
was to move to Corpus Christi...

178
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and move in with my uncle Hector.

179
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There were 13 of us living in one house,
which is an absurd idea.

180
00:14:06,333 --> 00:14:09,000
That was a tough time.
I remember it well.

181
00:14:09,125 --> 00:14:12,166
You could hear Mom and Dad talking
in the other room.

182
00:14:12,291 --> 00:14:15,833
You feel it
when your parents are stressed.

183
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We lost everything.

184
00:14:18,958 --> 00:14:23,291
It was very difficult for a long time
to put food on the table.

185
00:14:24,750 --> 00:14:28,625
These were difficult times.
I won't deny that.

186
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I couldn't find a job here.

187
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I said to Marcella:

188
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'The only other thing I can do is music.
I'm going to arrange performances.'

189
00:14:44,583 --> 00:14:48,708
I think Dad was homeless
when he was very young.

190
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He didn't want that for us.

191
00:14:56,541 --> 00:14:59,416
They started to get good at it.

192
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People liked that.

193
00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:07,916
So I knew they had something special.

194
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Selena was an attraction in itself.
She was the star.

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Thank you.

196
00:15:24,583 --> 00:15:28,833
Hello, Abraham the Third.
How are you, boy?

197
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What do you think of the reunion?
- Nice, you know.

198
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Are you ready?
to play something for us?

199
00:15:38,291 --> 00:15:39,791
We're going to do our best.

200
00:15:40,291 --> 00:15:43,125
Do you enjoy doing it?
- Yes.

201
00:15:44,791 --> 00:15:48,708
I think it is an interesting hobby.
- Okay, thank you.

202
00:15:48,833 --> 00:15:55,250
And here is also Suzette Quintanilla.
Would you like to say something, Suzette?

203
00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,666
No.
- You didn't say anything, Suzette.

204
00:15:59,791 --> 00:16:01,583
You just giggled.

205
00:16:03,458 --> 00:16:07,291
Now we're going to talk to Selena.
What group are you in, Selena?

206
00:16:07,416 --> 00:16:08,816
Group seven.

207
00:16:11,250 --> 00:16:16,166
And tell me how old you are
and why you like playing in the band.

208
00:16:17,666 --> 00:16:22,541
I'm ten and I like to play
in the band because of the money.

209
00:16:23,250 --> 00:16:24,650
Oh, really?

210
00:16:25,041 --> 00:16:27,583
Do you earn well?
- Yes.

211
00:16:28,083 --> 00:16:29,483
Well done.

212
00:16:30,458 --> 00:16:34,708
Are you going to sing something like that for us?
- Yes.

213
00:16:47,041 --> 00:16:50,875
Dad made us
all learn Mexican songs.

214
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Spanish songs, slow songs.

215
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I didn't understand it.

216
00:17:00,416 --> 00:17:05,250
I had no connection at all
with my Latino background.

217
00:17:05,375 --> 00:17:06,833
LAKE JACKSON ATHLETIC CLUB

218
00:17:06,958 --> 00:17:11,291
When they were young,
they only learned to speak English.

219
00:17:11,416 --> 00:17:14,375
We hardly ever spoke Spanish at home.

220
00:17:15,291 --> 00:17:17,416
Where we grew up, in Lake Jackson...

221
00:17:17,541 --> 00:17:21,166
there was no big one
Mexican American community.

222
00:17:21,708 --> 00:17:25,916
In Corpus it was different.
Everyone spoke Spanish.

223
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I didn't even understand what they were saying.

224
00:17:28,708 --> 00:17:31,500
We never heard Spanish at all.

225
00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,125
There were many English speaking acts
such as Taste of Honey, The Eagles.

226
00:17:36,250 --> 00:17:37,500
Men at Work, Duran Duran.

227
00:17:37,625 --> 00:17:40,208
Van Halen was the band.

228
00:17:45,375 --> 00:17:48,500
All that cool music. That's what I wanted to play.

229
00:17:49,875 --> 00:17:56,416
But it seemed better to my father
to do more Spanish music, Tejano.

230
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Tejano means music from area,
the American Southwest.

231
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A mix
of Mexican cumbias and polkas.

232
00:18:03,833 --> 00:18:08,458
Those kinds of songs, mixed with elements
of American rock, pop and country.

233
00:18:08,583 --> 00:18:11,333
That combination
makes Tejano what it is.

234
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You can't ignore it
that we are Mexicans.

235
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Even though we were born on this side.

236
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We get all over Texas
surrounded by this music.

237
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And if you can make money with it,
it becomes a business.

238
00:18:46,208 --> 00:18:49,208
When I started, I had no choice.

239
00:18:49,791 --> 00:18:54,708
All the numbers went to my father.
He chose Tejano music for us.

240
00:19:02,041 --> 00:19:05,541
I remember thinking:
what do you mean we do Tejano music?

241
00:19:05,666 --> 00:19:09,750
And Dad said, in short:

242
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'We can earn more with that
and we can perform more often.'

243
00:19:16,791 --> 00:19:22,958
So that was the plan.
We started playing more Tejano music.

244
00:19:23,083 --> 00:19:25,041
So we got back to work...

245
00:19:25,166 --> 00:19:28,958
looking for musicians
to rebuild Los Dinos.

246
00:19:30,333 --> 00:19:33,708
When they approached me in 1983,
I didn't know them.

247
00:19:36,458 --> 00:19:42,208
It didn't pay much at first,
but I was 21. I lived at home.

248
00:19:46,208 --> 00:19:49,458
Selena was about 12 years old at the time.

249
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,958
Suzette was 16, I think.

250
00:19:52,666 --> 00:19:54,125
They were still children.

251
00:20:05,041 --> 00:20:08,333
I remember when Ricky,
at our first meeting...

252
00:20:08,458 --> 00:20:11,708
wasn't that impressed with the band.

253
00:20:11,833 --> 00:20:16,541
Suzette and Selena
were fooling around during rehearsal.

254
00:20:16,666 --> 00:20:19,416
We were at the Boys and Girls Club...

255
00:20:19,541 --> 00:20:23,458
and Selena and I were running around,
through the roof.

256
00:20:24,458 --> 00:20:25,858
We were very young.

257
00:20:26,458 --> 00:20:31,666
My father shouted, we got into an argument.
So that must have been overwhelming.

258
00:20:31,791 --> 00:20:33,191
Can you do this?

259
00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:37,375
Didn't you wear that shirt yesterday?
- Well, what?

260
00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:38,875
Gross. You're gross.

261
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,583
Your shirt hasn't been washed in a week.
- Really.

262
00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:46,166
Do you wash your underwear every day?
- No.

263
00:20:47,583 --> 00:20:49,083
I wear different ones every day.

264
00:20:49,208 --> 00:20:51,708
She wears brown underwear,
then she can keep it on.

265
00:20:51,833 --> 00:20:53,233
Stop it.

266
00:20:55,083 --> 00:20:57,833
I'm tired.
- Come here, baby.

267
00:21:12,416 --> 00:21:14,416
We traveled more and more.

268
00:21:14,958 --> 00:21:18,416
We performed on Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays.

269
00:21:18,541 --> 00:21:24,583
Selena often missed school
because she was too tired.

270
00:21:24,708 --> 00:21:27,000
How do you keep up with your schoolwork?

271
00:21:28,083 --> 00:21:32,958
I'm still at school
but I don't go to public school.

272
00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:38,166
I'm getting homework from Chicago.
I'm taking an exam at the American School.

273
00:21:38,291 --> 00:21:39,375
I don't have a teacher.

274
00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:43,000
I do everything alone
and send it by post.

275
00:21:43,125 --> 00:21:48,333
How do you feel about that? Is that better?
Or would you rather go back to school?

276
00:21:48,458 --> 00:21:51,458
I do miss it
because I don't see my friends much.

277
00:21:51,583 --> 00:21:54,958
But it's better
because there is less distraction...

278
00:21:55,083 --> 00:21:56,541
than there is at school.

279
00:21:56,666 --> 00:21:58,833
You know it.

280
00:22:00,833 --> 00:22:04,250
How do your friends treat you?

281
00:22:05,166 --> 00:22:07,833
Honestly
I don't have that many friends that...

282
00:22:07,958 --> 00:22:14,208
I don't really go to the movies or anything.
I'm mostly with my family, and...

283
00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:20,333
I have friends, but they are at school.
I never see them because I don't go.

284
00:22:20,458 --> 00:22:23,125
That contact has faded a bit, so...

285
00:22:23,625 --> 00:22:26,416
When I was in school,
they were very nice.

286
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,291
Music is real work, right?
- Of course. I see it as work.

287
00:22:32,416 --> 00:22:36,291
I get paid for it.
No one in our family has a job.

288
00:22:36,416 --> 00:22:41,291
We have to live from it.
That's why it's so important to us.

289
00:22:41,416 --> 00:22:44,500
The main reason
that we are in this business...

290
00:22:44,625 --> 00:22:48,041
is that we like it.
And we also live from it.

291
00:23:05,291 --> 00:23:08,083
You have to make sacrifices
to move forward.

292
00:23:09,708 --> 00:23:14,291
I've lost a lot of my childhood
because I traveled professionally.

293
00:23:15,458 --> 00:23:19,000
You can't go play.
You're always working.

294
00:23:19,125 --> 00:23:22,000
But when you're so young,
don't you understand?

295
00:23:22,125 --> 00:23:26,583
But when I look at my life now,
I am grateful to my father.

296
00:23:33,125 --> 00:23:36,458
You need someone who knows the trade.

297
00:23:37,125 --> 00:23:39,166
He already had that experience.

298
00:23:39,291 --> 00:23:43,708
He knew what to do
with their talent.

299
00:23:44,875 --> 00:23:50,166
I went to San Antonio with Selena,
to Cara Records.

300
00:23:50,666 --> 00:23:52,416
'Cara' means face.

301
00:23:53,541 --> 00:23:59,041
At first they were skeptical,
because it was a young girl.

302
00:24:00,083 --> 00:24:03,291
I said, 'Let's give it a try.'

303
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,625
We recorded a song.

304
00:24:09,541 --> 00:24:12,875
When he heard the song, he said, "Hey."

305
00:24:14,125 --> 00:24:15,688
'Give me a contract.'

306
00:24:16,458 --> 00:24:18,458
And he signed Selena.

307
00:24:24,416 --> 00:24:27,791
I worked for the owner
from the studio, Manny Guerra.

308
00:24:28,291 --> 00:24:32,583
One of the first artists
who he signed was Selena.

309
00:24:34,708 --> 00:24:41,125
That was the start of a long journey.

310
00:24:45,125 --> 00:24:49,625
First was their youth
something that made them special.

311
00:24:49,750 --> 00:24:51,291
They were still children.

312
00:24:51,916 --> 00:24:54,541
But mature musicians with years of experience...

313
00:24:54,666 --> 00:24:58,125
couldn't do what Selena
and her band.

314
00:24:58,250 --> 00:25:01,958
I thought, 'Well, those kids can play.
They're really good.'

315
00:25:02,083 --> 00:25:06,500
Selena and the Dinos, nice name.
How did you come up with that name?

316
00:25:06,625 --> 00:25:09,791
Selena y Los Dinos?
Well, Selena comes from me.

317
00:25:09,916 --> 00:25:12,500
Is that your real name?
- Yes. No.

318
00:25:12,625 --> 00:25:14,416
Is that your real name?
- Yes.

319
00:25:14,541 --> 00:25:18,041
Is it actually Sefaina?
- No, it's Selena.

320
00:25:18,166 --> 00:25:21,416
And Los Dinos comes from the original Dinos,
from my father.

321
00:25:21,541 --> 00:25:24,541
He used to be the singer.
- You're busy.

322
00:25:24,666 --> 00:25:26,000
Visited many cities?

323
00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:30,083
This first album, Alpha, has been recorded
by Manny from GP Productions.

324
00:25:30,208 --> 00:25:32,208
Things have been going fast since then.

325
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,916
After that album came out,
Selena's name became known.

326
00:25:38,041 --> 00:25:41,583
She created a buzz in the music business.

327
00:25:42,458 --> 00:25:48,166
At first she came to the studio
in an old, blue Ford van...

328
00:25:48,291 --> 00:25:50,416
with a homemade trailer...

329
00:25:50,916 --> 00:25:54,750
and their faces
stuck to the window due to the heat.

330
00:25:54,875 --> 00:25:58,750
When they came in,
they lay down on the ground...

331
00:25:58,875 --> 00:26:02,041
because there was air conditioning.
That's how it started.

332
00:26:02,166 --> 00:26:03,566
Is this nice enough?

333
00:26:04,666 --> 00:26:05,791
No.

334
00:26:05,916 --> 00:26:10,333
Is that shoebox there?
- No. No idea, I hope not.

335
00:26:10,458 --> 00:26:14,375
With my silver boots and...
- Suzy, are her shoes there?

336
00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:16,875
What was the hardest thing for you...

337
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,750
the past two or three years,
with all that attention?

338
00:26:22,250 --> 00:26:26,208
I enjoyed it so much
that I forgot the hard things.

339
00:26:26,333 --> 00:26:29,541
I don't think...
Every band has tough times, but...

340
00:26:29,666 --> 00:26:31,500
we had so much fun.

341
00:26:31,625 --> 00:26:36,416
We enjoy it,
and we have forgotten the difficult things.

342
00:26:36,958 --> 00:26:42,666
And what is your big goal? Do you have that?
- A Mercedes-Benz.

343
00:26:47,875 --> 00:26:50,875
That's my goal.
Everyone asks. Mercedes Benz.

344
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000
Even if I have to live in it.

345
00:26:59,083 --> 00:27:00,958
It was a great time.

346
00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:05,000
Our bond was great.
They were like family to us.

347
00:27:05,583 --> 00:27:07,875
Everyone was cool.

348
00:27:08,416 --> 00:27:11,750
Everyone was nice. Everyone had a role.

349
00:27:14,250 --> 00:27:19,458
My husband and the children
were the side of the band.

350
00:27:20,833 --> 00:27:23,500
I stayed behind the scenes.

351
00:27:24,083 --> 00:27:29,000
That's what you have a mother for.
She sews my pants.

352
00:27:29,125 --> 00:27:31,958
I was only there to support my family.

353
00:27:32,083 --> 00:27:34,083
Mom.
- Mom.

354
00:27:34,208 --> 00:27:38,083
Especially if they pay you $20.
- It was just a joke.

355
00:27:38,208 --> 00:27:43,875
I remember a concert outside
where Selena's pants zipper broke.

356
00:27:44,375 --> 00:27:46,458
I had to sew the zipper.

357
00:27:47,083 --> 00:27:52,500
I said, 'You can for now
don't go to the toilet.'

358
00:27:52,625 --> 00:27:57,125
Because she had to perform.
That made us laugh.

359
00:28:00,416 --> 00:28:01,875
It was fun.

360
00:28:02,708 --> 00:28:04,875
The whole family, traveling together.

361
00:28:06,166 --> 00:28:09,333
Not: Me with a lot of musicians.

362
00:28:10,291 --> 00:28:11,833
But: Me with my family.

363
00:28:13,333 --> 00:28:16,041
I bought an old bus.

364
00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:21,166
I spent half my time
under that bus, under the grease.

365
00:28:21,291 --> 00:28:22,875
He kept breaking down.

366
00:28:27,583 --> 00:28:32,791
Bertha had no air conditioning.
Only the windows could be opened a little.

367
00:28:32,916 --> 00:28:35,625
There was no air circulation.

368
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:41,500
But if you used to have a bus,
that was a status symbol.

369
00:28:41,625 --> 00:28:44,583
By bus
you were heading for great things.

370
00:28:44,708 --> 00:28:48,458
We had a bus. Off we went.
At least that's what we thought.

371
00:28:52,250 --> 00:28:53,650
How was it?

372
00:28:57,583 --> 00:28:59,375
I sleep on the way.

373
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,208
I'm hyper from dancing.

374
00:29:01,333 --> 00:29:05,541
Sweets make me hyper
and Coca-Cola and all that.

375
00:29:05,666 --> 00:29:08,333
Other groups
stay awake to play cards.

376
00:29:08,458 --> 00:29:11,458
But on the way, during the day,
once we get on the bus...

377
00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:13,208
everyone falls asleep.

378
00:29:14,250 --> 00:29:18,625
My mother was in the back,
and we talked about...

379
00:29:19,166 --> 00:29:22,583
all true mothers
and daughters talk about.

380
00:29:22,708 --> 00:29:26,750
About food, about clothing.

381
00:29:26,875 --> 00:29:31,583
When Selena went to a show,
we talked about what she would wear.

382
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:42,541
She had so much vision.
It wasn't just her voice.

383
00:29:42,666 --> 00:29:46,916
It was her presence,
how she presented herself.

384
00:29:47,416 --> 00:29:50,833
Her outfit was
an important part of it.

385
00:29:58,750 --> 00:30:02,666
When I interview you later...

386
00:30:02,791 --> 00:30:07,583
You're going to get changed now
to something a bit...

387
00:30:07,708 --> 00:30:09,291
Chic.
- Chic, right?

388
00:30:09,416 --> 00:30:11,916
You made these suits, right?

389
00:30:12,041 --> 00:30:13,833
First they were white, right?

390
00:30:13,958 --> 00:30:16,921
How did you approach that?
How did you paint them?

391
00:30:17,047 --> 00:30:18,957
With paint.
- Yes, but...

392
00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:21,646
I put fluorescent paint on it.

393
00:30:22,125 --> 00:30:25,291
And the people
who listen to us in Mexico...

394
00:30:25,416 --> 00:30:27,625
how can they know how you did that?

395
00:30:27,750 --> 00:30:29,375
They painted them.

396
00:30:31,083 --> 00:30:34,250
Hey, listen.

397
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:39,250
'They...' We painted them.
- We painted them.

398
00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:43,288
Look, to talk like that in English...

399
00:30:43,666 --> 00:30:45,583
I knew it would be difficult.

400
00:30:45,708 --> 00:30:51,083
I said to Mr. Rayas
that not everyone speaks Spanish well...

401
00:30:51,208 --> 00:30:53,083
and then I have to speak English.

402
00:30:53,208 --> 00:30:55,833
I'll translate it, okay?
- Okay.

403
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,333
How did 'they' paint it?
Is this better this way?

404
00:30:59,458 --> 00:31:00,500
Much better.

405
00:31:00,625 --> 00:31:04,041
You didn't say anything.
- Because you keep talking.

406
00:31:04,166 --> 00:31:07,916
Looking back I see that,
because she was the face of the band...

407
00:31:08,041 --> 00:31:12,500
there was enormous pressure on her
if interviews had to be given...

408
00:31:12,625 --> 00:31:14,375
especially in Spanish.

409
00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:19,541
The press couldn't get over it
that our Spanish wasn't that fluent.

410
00:31:19,666 --> 00:31:22,833
It was the question
whether they would accept you.

411
00:31:27,125 --> 00:31:32,541
Selena felt:
I need to speak Spanish fluently.

412
00:31:32,666 --> 00:31:36,916
I really need to learn this
so we can move forward.

413
00:31:37,625 --> 00:31:40,666
She wanted to be prepared
when she did interviews.

414
00:31:41,541 --> 00:31:43,166
She worked very hard.

415
00:31:43,708 --> 00:31:48,000
My father started teaching us
in Spanish music, and its meaning.

416
00:31:48,125 --> 00:31:52,813
If only you had grown up speaking Spanish.
If only you had been part of that culture.

417
00:31:53,041 --> 00:31:54,916
Your show just keeps getting better.

418
00:31:55,041 --> 00:31:58,666
Last time you gave
a great show. Congratulations.

419
00:31:58,916 --> 00:32:02,083
How long has your new album been out now?

420
00:32:02,208 --> 00:32:06,083
Three weeks?
- Something like that. I feel that too. Last...

421
00:32:06,208 --> 00:32:11,833
They don't ask me anything because I don't know anything.
I just pack my bags and sing.

422
00:32:11,958 --> 00:32:16,375
I started to notice
that people were fascinated by Selena.

423
00:32:16,958 --> 00:32:20,250
Everywhere she played
it was sold out.

424
00:32:26,166 --> 00:32:31,708
It became known that Selena attracted people.

425
00:32:34,166 --> 00:32:37,250
And we traveled across the United States.

426
00:32:44,291 --> 00:32:46,166
It's hard work.

427
00:32:47,083 --> 00:32:48,875
And it is very heavy.

428
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,708
You can't just say:
"Oh, I'm going to... They're going to be stars."

429
00:32:52,833 --> 00:32:55,833
No, there's a lot of work behind that.

430
00:32:55,958 --> 00:32:59,146
Welcome to
the fifth annual Tejano Music Awards.

431
00:33:03,041 --> 00:33:08,666
I want to say that, as mayor,
I'm overwhelmed, and proud...

432
00:33:08,791 --> 00:33:14,750
on what this stands for. Each of us,
we Mexicans, Mexican-Americans...

433
00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:17,375
support this great effort...

434
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:20,750
to celebrate the talent
of the Chicano community.

435
00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:23,000
Chicano music.

436
00:33:23,125 --> 00:33:26,041
Congratulations everyone. Thank you.

437
00:33:27,083 --> 00:33:28,625
The Tejano Music Awards...

438
00:33:28,750 --> 00:33:32,250
was a great award show,
because it celebrated our music.

439
00:33:32,375 --> 00:33:35,000
The nominees
for Female Vocalist of the Year:

440
00:33:35,125 --> 00:33:36,625
Selena Quintanilla.

441
00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:39,833
It was so cool.
Here comes a young girl...

442
00:33:39,958 --> 00:33:43,375
that attracts attention
and is nominated for the first time.

443
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:45,291
Are you ready?

444
00:33:45,916 --> 00:33:47,375
Laura Canales.

445
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:51,083
WINNER FEMALE VOCALIST
LAURA CANALES

446
00:33:51,208 --> 00:33:54,916
I didn't feel good about our music.
We just recorded something.

447
00:33:55,041 --> 00:33:57,125
I had the feeling...

448
00:33:57,250 --> 00:34:01,541
that we didn't have the right songs
to conquer the market.

449
00:34:01,666 --> 00:34:04,291
It was like we hit a wall.

450
00:34:04,791 --> 00:34:07,000
Nominees
for songwriter of the year.

451
00:34:07,125 --> 00:34:12,589
There was a songwriter
which dominated the entire market.

452
00:34:12,715 --> 00:34:13,791
Everything.

453
00:34:13,916 --> 00:34:16,041
The winner is Luis Silva.

454
00:34:16,166 --> 00:34:17,500
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

455
00:34:17,625 --> 00:34:19,958
I said, "Mr. Silva."

456
00:34:20,083 --> 00:34:21,250
Thank you.

457
00:34:21,375 --> 00:34:26,041
“I don't have that hit.
I hope maybe you can help me.'

458
00:34:26,166 --> 00:34:30,958
He said, 'Come to my office on Monday
and I'll give you two songs.'

459
00:34:34,333 --> 00:34:37,083
I told my father
Selena and the rest.

460
00:34:37,208 --> 00:34:43,666
I said, 'This is it.'
Now we have the missing puzzle piece.

461
00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:48,875
And on Wednesday evening
calls his secretary and says:

462
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,708
'You are not allowed to use those songs.
He gave them to someone else.”

463
00:34:55,125 --> 00:35:00,208
I finally had my own room.
I zipped myself into my sleeping bag...

464
00:35:00,708 --> 00:35:04,541
and started to cry.
I started crying in frustration.

465
00:35:09,125 --> 00:35:13,250
My father said: 'Pues, A.B.
Luis Silva is a musician.”

466
00:35:13,375 --> 00:35:15,375
I said, 'Yes, I believe so.'

467
00:35:15,916 --> 00:35:18,833
He said, "You too, right?"
I said, 'Yes?'

468
00:35:20,583 --> 00:35:24,916
He said, 'What's holding you back?
to be Luis Silva, or even better?

469
00:35:25,041 --> 00:35:26,441
What's holding you back?'

470
00:35:28,666 --> 00:35:30,666
Selena's first hit was 'Dame Un Beso.'

471
00:35:30,791 --> 00:35:34,625
It's called 'Dame Un Beso'.
A great success for Selena y Los Dinos.

472
00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:37,916
From Corpus Christi, Texas:
Selena y Los Dinos.

473
00:35:38,041 --> 00:35:39,041
Let's hear it.

474
00:35:39,541 --> 00:35:44,333
'Dame Un Beso', the song.
I sat there with a pen and a notepad...

475
00:35:44,458 --> 00:35:48,041
to study what kind of sound
the groups used...

476
00:35:48,166 --> 00:35:51,000
what techniques, how they played it.

477
00:35:51,125 --> 00:35:54,000
Then I could
making my own recipe for Selena.

478
00:35:54,458 --> 00:35:58,291
When you write a song,
there is usually a so-called hook.

479
00:35:58,416 --> 00:36:00,208
That's a catchy piece...

480
00:36:00,333 --> 00:36:03,583
that you know about
that it comes into the spotlight.

481
00:36:03,708 --> 00:36:05,666
And that little thing...

482
00:36:13,958 --> 00:36:19,250
It felt like we finally got there
found our own rhythm, our groove.

483
00:36:20,458 --> 00:36:23,541
We had great musicians in the band.

484
00:36:23,666 --> 00:36:27,041
Now, with 'Dame Un Beso',
we had the number.

485
00:36:27,916 --> 00:36:30,354
I told Dad, "We're number one."

486
00:36:31,125 --> 00:36:32,525
He said:

487
00:36:33,625 --> 00:36:40,125
'I'm happy for you. But everyone
can write one bestseller.

488
00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:43,625
After that they don't write anything anymore.
Just like you with songs.

489
00:36:43,750 --> 00:36:46,000
Congratulations. Can you do it again?'

490
00:36:46,916 --> 00:36:48,208
I thought...

491
00:36:48,333 --> 00:36:50,666
One, two, three, four.

492
00:36:54,458 --> 00:36:56,791
I don't know what I felt.

493
00:36:57,291 --> 00:37:01,416
I knew my purpose
what I had to do to get there.

494
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,250
And I kept pushing.

495
00:37:11,916 --> 00:37:17,250
I knew A.B. had that talent.
I saw that when he was little.

496
00:37:17,375 --> 00:37:20,416
But you don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

497
00:37:20,916 --> 00:37:25,333
Many songwriters write one song
and then you never hear anything again.

498
00:37:26,458 --> 00:37:31,833
So to stay there,
you have to keep writing hits, not just one.

499
00:37:35,833 --> 00:37:39,791
If Dad hadn't been there
to show me that beauty...

500
00:37:39,916 --> 00:37:46,250
of constructed music,
I would never have done what I did.

501
00:37:49,333 --> 00:37:53,333
The fun part is
that it was never about one person.

502
00:37:53,833 --> 00:37:59,541
We were a unit.
That's what made us so powerful.

503
00:38:00,125 --> 00:38:04,375
Selena had a dangerous team.
A ruthless team.

504
00:38:16,291 --> 00:38:18,333
The Texans have voted.

505
00:38:25,333 --> 00:38:28,125
FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR

506
00:38:28,250 --> 00:38:32,291
I want to thank everyone in Texas...

507
00:38:32,416 --> 00:38:35,229
who supported us,
Selena y Los Dinos.

508
00:38:35,625 --> 00:38:39,458
También I would like to thank our producer,
Manny Guerra of GP Productions.

509
00:38:39,583 --> 00:38:41,541
He helped us enormously.

510
00:38:42,291 --> 00:38:44,916
And especially I want to thank...

511
00:38:45,041 --> 00:38:50,500
the grupo Los Dinos, because without them
I would have been nobody.

512
00:38:50,625 --> 00:38:53,458
And if I win, they win.

513
00:38:53,583 --> 00:38:55,916
And if they lose, I don't know them.

514
00:38:58,333 --> 00:38:59,733
Thank you.

515
00:39:01,416 --> 00:39:02,916
Are you kidding?

516
00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:05,541
Before...
- Hi, Josie.

517
00:39:05,666 --> 00:39:09,250
I don't look
but this is how I always dress.

518
00:39:09,375 --> 00:39:10,833
Come on, let's go.

519
00:39:10,958 --> 00:39:12,166
This is my room.

520
00:39:12,291 --> 00:39:15,958
It looks bare
because I'm recovering a bit.

521
00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:18,000
I want to show the awards.

522
00:39:18,583 --> 00:39:19,983
Come on.

523
00:39:21,833 --> 00:39:23,875
These are our awards.

524
00:39:24,708 --> 00:39:30,666
This one is from Selena,
for female vocalist in West Texas.

525
00:39:30,791 --> 00:39:34,625
She won this one here...

526
00:39:35,291 --> 00:39:38,208
for female vocalist,
here in Corpus.

527
00:39:38,333 --> 00:39:40,208
And we have these three.

528
00:39:40,833 --> 00:39:43,666
And then I'll show you our big award.

529
00:39:44,208 --> 00:39:45,608
Here it is.

530
00:39:48,875 --> 00:39:51,125
Selena won this one.

531
00:39:52,375 --> 00:39:54,000
She can sing herself.

532
00:40:04,208 --> 00:40:08,646
While Selena achieved enormous success
in the American Tejano market...

533
00:40:08,958 --> 00:40:12,896
she was just starting to attract attention
across the Mexican border.

534
00:40:16,666 --> 00:40:21,333
Selena drew full houses,
anywhere in the United States.

535
00:40:21,458 --> 00:40:23,875
But we are of Mexican descent.

536
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,625
And I wanted to try it in Mexico.

537
00:40:27,750 --> 00:40:30,458
We want you
propose to a young lady...

538
00:40:30,583 --> 00:40:37,166
who won the award for female vocalist
won in the US in 1986.

539
00:40:37,291 --> 00:40:41,250
One of the youth groups
that bubble up.

540
00:40:41,375 --> 00:40:47,166
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Selena y Los Dinos
from Corpus Christi, Texas.

541
00:40:47,291 --> 00:40:50,375
Let's hear it, Selena. Come on.

542
00:40:51,125 --> 00:40:52,525
It was scary.

543
00:40:53,291 --> 00:40:56,916
It was very intimidating,
because at that moment...

544
00:40:57,041 --> 00:41:01,541
Selena was still learning Spanish,
and I didn't speak it at all.

545
00:41:16,708 --> 00:41:22,541
We weren't prepared for that audience.
It was a very strange feeling.

546
00:41:23,083 --> 00:41:24,483
They didn't understand.

547
00:41:25,250 --> 00:41:31,250
They applauded out of politeness,
not because they liked it so much.

548
00:41:34,333 --> 00:41:39,708
This song is written
by keyboardist Ricardo Vela.

549
00:41:39,833 --> 00:41:43,541
And my brother, Abraham Quintanilla,
on the bass. It's called 'Dame Un Beso'...

550
00:41:43,666 --> 00:41:46,416
for everyone here tonight
at Selena y Los Dinos.

551
00:41:46,541 --> 00:41:48,208
For all of Matamoros.

552
00:41:48,875 --> 00:41:52,666
It was very crazy, like we weren't
were accepted in Mexico...

553
00:41:52,791 --> 00:41:55,000
because we didn't speak Spanish.

554
00:41:55,125 --> 00:41:58,875
Oh, they think they're Anglo.
They think they are white.

555
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,291
No, it's not... Wait, what do you mean?

556
00:42:29,625 --> 00:42:31,375
They didn't like it, man.

557
00:42:31,958 --> 00:42:34,333
If they don't get it, it stops.

558
00:42:35,666 --> 00:42:39,729
It felt like we were in that market
didn't come in as we wanted.

559
00:42:40,083 --> 00:42:44,250
We had a little
an inferiority complex.

560
00:42:45,083 --> 00:42:46,708
Luckily we had Pete.

561
00:42:46,833 --> 00:42:49,625
I was born and raised
in Laredo, Texas.

562
00:42:52,333 --> 00:42:55,708
The US and Mexico
come together in one unique place...

563
00:42:55,833 --> 00:42:57,291
and that's Laredo, Texas.

564
00:42:57,416 --> 00:43:00,125
So I had the advantage
of being American...

565
00:43:00,250 --> 00:43:02,541
and have Mexican ancestry.

566
00:43:07,791 --> 00:43:09,250
Pete Astudillo.

567
00:43:09,375 --> 00:43:12,541
I asked him to join the band
because he spoke Spanish.

568
00:43:12,666 --> 00:43:16,625
He showed me the influences
from Laredo, Texas.

569
00:43:16,750 --> 00:43:18,666
And at the same time...

570
00:43:18,791 --> 00:43:23,250
could he fill in for Selena,
because we played four nights a week.

571
00:43:23,375 --> 00:43:27,125
I put him on the stage,
and he was good at it.

572
00:43:36,166 --> 00:43:39,875
And not just in singing,
he was a great songwriter.

573
00:43:40,875 --> 00:43:44,875
If he hadn't been there,
I never knew what cumbia was.

574
00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:49,708
Cumbia is a cousin of salsa.

575
00:43:50,916 --> 00:43:54,958
It has a fast rhythm.
It's cheerful, exuberant.

576
00:43:57,625 --> 00:43:59,625
You hear the connection with salsa.

577
00:44:04,833 --> 00:44:09,000
I knew that cumbia
was important in Mexico.

578
00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:14,791
We had to have a good cumbia
to hit the Mexican people.

579
00:44:15,291 --> 00:44:18,291
A.B. said, 'I want to do something like that.'

580
00:44:18,416 --> 00:44:21,208
He explained it in English.
I said, 'Cool, something like that?'

581
00:44:21,333 --> 00:44:22,484
"Yes, like that."

582
00:44:22,610 --> 00:44:24,791
We had really good chemistry.

583
00:44:53,333 --> 00:44:54,833
I'm going to direct this.

584
00:44:56,375 --> 00:45:01,250
Maybe. You're doing fine.
A little longer on top, please.

585
00:45:04,125 --> 00:45:07,208
You know, this is what I learned
about this business:

586
00:45:07,708 --> 00:45:11,750
in the right place at the right time
anything can happen.

587
00:45:16,291 --> 00:45:21,458
So it happened that José Behar
from Capitol/EMI Latin heard the band.

588
00:45:22,166 --> 00:45:26,729
He said, 'Hey, we heard you.
We want to arrange something with you.'

589
00:45:28,375 --> 00:45:30,791
And then we signed the contract.

590
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,583
She left in 1989
at Manny's record company...

591
00:45:35,708 --> 00:45:37,521
and signed a contract...

592
00:45:37,916 --> 00:45:39,500
at EMI Latin.

593
00:45:50,208 --> 00:45:52,416
Yes, we have made a breakthrough.

594
00:45:52,541 --> 00:45:55,000
Yes, we are.
- Yes, love.

595
00:45:55,125 --> 00:45:56,333
SEPTEMBER 15, 1989

596
00:45:56,458 --> 00:45:57,666
SEPTEMBER 14, 1989

597
00:45:57,791 --> 00:45:59,125
Show me.

598
00:45:59,250 --> 00:46:00,650
Lucky.

599
00:46:06,041 --> 00:46:07,916
How much does this room cost?
- A lot of.

600
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,458
I remember thinking...

601
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,291
We have money. Oh, this is it.

602
00:46:18,083 --> 00:46:21,041
I'm in Long Beach, California.

603
00:46:21,666 --> 00:46:24,125
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

604
00:46:24,625 --> 00:46:27,375
Suzy, Ricky, take a picture of us.

605
00:46:27,875 --> 00:46:29,666
Look, Hollywood.
- I?

606
00:46:30,583 --> 00:46:32,166
Bring your own camera.

607
00:46:34,291 --> 00:46:35,833
Show Hollywood.

608
00:46:38,333 --> 00:46:40,708
Guard.
- Is Hollywood on it?

609
00:46:45,875 --> 00:46:48,041
We minimize that.

610
00:46:48,166 --> 00:46:51,666
When we signed with EMI,
was that on the latin side...

611
00:46:51,791 --> 00:46:56,458
but the ultimate goal
was the English side.

612
00:47:01,083 --> 00:47:05,708
I don't know what my father thought,
but from the beginning he wanted...

613
00:47:05,833 --> 00:47:11,333
cross over to Mexican music,
but also to the English market.

614
00:47:24,666 --> 00:47:28,708
Latino artists in the US
are just like everyone else.

615
00:47:28,833 --> 00:47:34,916
Everyone dreams of that crossing.
You want to reach as many people as possible.

616
00:47:35,041 --> 00:47:38,416
Of course you bring first
a tribute to your origins...

617
00:47:38,541 --> 00:47:41,375
but in the end
you want the general public.

618
00:47:56,916 --> 00:48:00,583
It's exciting to overcome something.

619
00:48:00,708 --> 00:48:04,416
To plan something
and then do it.

620
00:48:04,541 --> 00:48:06,291
Dominga.

621
00:48:06,416 --> 00:48:08,979
You have to take it, I can't see it well.

622
00:48:09,416 --> 00:48:10,979
It's a bit foggy.

623
00:48:11,541 --> 00:48:16,208
¿Ya ves? She makes money.
- I have to. I have to pay for my car.

624
00:48:20,750 --> 00:48:23,458
You're so busy with what you do...

625
00:48:25,250 --> 00:48:27,438
that I wasn't aware of...

626
00:48:27,750 --> 00:48:32,041
that Selena was getting bigger
and that the group kept getting bigger.

627
00:48:32,625 --> 00:48:34,666
Wow, it's Selena.

628
00:48:35,375 --> 00:48:36,540
Very nice.

629
00:48:36,791 --> 00:48:39,583
Stop, I don't want to be filmed all the time.

630
00:48:40,166 --> 00:48:41,625
But you know...

631
00:48:41,750 --> 00:48:47,041
success in this business is measured
by how much money you make.

632
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,958
And we made loads of money.

633
00:48:50,083 --> 00:48:51,958
Open the door, Marty.

634
00:48:53,833 --> 00:48:56,041
My father worked on Bertha.

635
00:48:57,458 --> 00:49:01,708
We bought a generator.
We built bunk beds.

636
00:49:02,208 --> 00:49:04,750
She was the best coach ever.

637
00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:09,666
This is what we see after a concert.

638
00:49:09,791 --> 00:49:11,583
Mother, please.
- Very tired.

639
00:49:11,708 --> 00:49:13,108
Don't pretend.

640
00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:18,166
Traveling with Bertha, with the Dinos,
with my family, with everyone...

641
00:49:19,541 --> 00:49:24,041
It was beautiful, man.
We had the perfect bond.

642
00:49:24,166 --> 00:49:25,566
Do you film?

643
00:49:26,916 --> 00:49:29,083
Hi, guest. Hey, how are you?

644
00:49:29,208 --> 00:49:34,250
The first time I met the band
was at one of the rehearsals.

645
00:49:34,833 --> 00:49:37,416
It was extremely impressive, powerful.

646
00:49:38,041 --> 00:49:43,000
I enjoyed the sound.
It sounded modern for that time, fresh.

647
00:49:59,708 --> 00:50:04,083
Chris? It wasn't my idea
to ask him to join the band.

648
00:50:05,458 --> 00:50:08,333
A. B. Brought him in.

649
00:50:09,458 --> 00:50:13,791
You can't deny it
that he is a great guitarist.

650
00:50:17,166 --> 00:50:21,416
I was a bit...
I guess I'd call it starstruck.

651
00:50:22,875 --> 00:50:26,083
Because they just had
signed to Capitol EMI.

652
00:50:26,583 --> 00:50:28,750
That was of course impressive.

653
00:50:29,791 --> 00:50:33,166
But honestly
I was especially surprised by the power...

654
00:50:33,291 --> 00:50:36,125
of the band, the
music and the sound and...

655
00:50:38,416 --> 00:50:39,750
I threw myself into it.

656
00:50:39,875 --> 00:50:41,083
Chris.
- Always.

657
00:50:41,208 --> 00:50:44,291
What is it like to be on tour?
- Fine.

658
00:50:47,875 --> 00:50:50,541
At first we didn't hang out much.

659
00:50:51,166 --> 00:50:55,083
Selena was always gone
with Suzette or her mother.

660
00:50:55,208 --> 00:50:59,083
Smile, Selena.
Show America what you really look like.

661
00:51:02,041 --> 00:51:03,441
No.

662
00:51:03,625 --> 00:51:08,250
But we took long bus trips.

663
00:51:09,166 --> 00:51:12,375
Then she and I became friends.

664
00:51:13,166 --> 00:51:17,125
Whenever we sat next to each other,
we were talking...

665
00:51:17,250 --> 00:51:20,333
about music and movies
and things like that.

666
00:51:21,208 --> 00:51:25,500
It was cool to see
that she was a normal person.

667
00:51:25,625 --> 00:51:27,025
Business.

668
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:30,188
They are discussing.

669
00:51:37,708 --> 00:51:40,375
Wait a minute. See? That's what I mean. Guard.

670
00:51:40,875 --> 00:51:42,275
Look at me.

671
00:51:43,166 --> 00:51:45,750
Many people think they...

672
00:51:45,875 --> 00:51:51,041
was an incredibly powerful woman.

673
00:51:51,625 --> 00:51:56,500
Strong. But she also had a vulnerable side.

674
00:51:57,333 --> 00:52:00,708
Everything she had to wear...

675
00:52:00,833 --> 00:52:04,541
That was tough. get up early,
working late every night...

676
00:52:04,666 --> 00:52:07,458
and that with a smile on her face.

677
00:52:10,125 --> 00:52:14,083
This is just the music.
Selena and I recorded this song.

678
00:52:46,583 --> 00:52:49,458
Selena, what are you doing?
when you're not on tour?

679
00:52:49,875 --> 00:52:54,583
Let's think.
Rest, spend time at home.

680
00:52:55,458 --> 00:52:57,375
I like to design clothes.

681
00:52:57,500 --> 00:53:02,083
I like jewelry
and to make belts and waistcoats.

682
00:53:02,208 --> 00:53:06,458
It depends, because there are
so many things I do for the group...

683
00:53:06,583 --> 00:53:09,375
and also for myself. The outfits.

684
00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:13,708
I have the jacket, the shorts,
the glove, the bag and the top.

685
00:53:13,833 --> 00:53:15,083
I like that.

686
00:53:15,208 --> 00:53:18,833
That's a dream of mine too
open a clothing store.

687
00:53:18,958 --> 00:53:22,958
We'll see soon
Selena Quintanilla Fashions?

688
00:53:23,083 --> 00:53:24,483
Hopefully.

689
00:53:30,666 --> 00:53:34,666
Selena was always busy, always on.

690
00:53:35,458 --> 00:53:40,541
Life on tour was quite busy,
got quite hectic.

691
00:53:44,916 --> 00:53:49,583
Designing it was something
which made her happy.

692
00:53:50,333 --> 00:53:54,541
She set aside some time, a quiet moment.

693
00:53:54,666 --> 00:53:59,000
She took out her sketchbook,
and then she went all out.

694
00:53:59,125 --> 00:54:02,750
Some of our concert outfits
were designed by her.

695
00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:14,000
The only outfit I didn't like
what with that cow print.

696
00:54:15,500 --> 00:54:17,208
That wasn't my idea.

697
00:54:17,333 --> 00:54:20,771
She said, 'We'll do a cow print,'
and I said, 'Oh, God.'

698
00:54:21,166 --> 00:54:24,625
But she always wanted to design.

699
00:54:25,666 --> 00:54:29,250
So wearing those outfits,
we would do that for her.

700
00:54:50,833 --> 00:54:56,500
'Baila Esta Cumbia' was the first song
that really became a big hit.

701
00:54:56,625 --> 00:55:00,000
That started the whole hype surrounding cumbia.

702
00:55:00,125 --> 00:55:02,750
"We need more cumbias."

703
00:55:02,875 --> 00:55:06,625
We hesitated a little,
because we are not a cumbia band...

704
00:55:06,750 --> 00:55:08,666
we are a Tejano band.

705
00:55:08,791 --> 00:55:11,666
But the label said:
'Do as many as you want.

706
00:55:11,791 --> 00:55:14,708
It works. Do what you feel like.'

707
00:55:15,333 --> 00:55:18,041
Okay Monterrey, I want to see you clap.

708
00:55:18,166 --> 00:55:20,208
Everyone, hands in the air.

709
00:55:20,333 --> 00:55:23,958
A.B. had some minor adjustments
done to the cumbias.

710
00:55:24,083 --> 00:55:28,541
A little more funk,
and they went through the roof.

711
00:55:29,125 --> 00:55:31,500
We rewrote the rules.

712
00:55:31,625 --> 00:55:38,083
And A.B. was our leader
in the sense that he went against the norm.

713
00:55:38,208 --> 00:55:42,416
And Selena too,
because they listened to a lot of pop music.

714
00:55:42,541 --> 00:55:45,041
And we listened to a lot of rock 'n' roll.

715
00:55:45,958 --> 00:55:47,896
That's why Selena became so popular.

716
00:55:48,583 --> 00:55:51,083
She was accepted in other countries.

717
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,833
The cumbias were all big hits.

718
00:55:55,333 --> 00:55:57,250
Big hits in the Spanish world.

719
00:55:57,375 --> 00:56:01,583
You already work so hard.

720
00:56:01,708 --> 00:56:06,750
Seriously, because you just started
arrived in the Mexican Republic.

721
00:56:06,875 --> 00:56:11,916
Yes, we are honestly very surprised
that the audience likes our music.

722
00:56:12,041 --> 00:56:16,666
Things used to be tough for Tejano bands
to enter here in Mexico...

723
00:56:16,791 --> 00:56:20,750
but now it's easier,
thanks to the audience.

724
00:56:27,625 --> 00:56:30,333
What do you love about Tejano music?

725
00:56:30,458 --> 00:56:34,333
Actually, really the rhythm.

726
00:56:45,166 --> 00:56:49,333
It is very romantic music.
You can dance against each other.

727
00:57:01,958 --> 00:57:04,666
When you're on stage, or in photos...

728
00:57:04,791 --> 00:57:08,541
you spread that energy
when you start dancing.

729
00:57:08,666 --> 00:57:11,541
Where did you learn
to dance when you sing?

730
00:57:11,666 --> 00:57:14,708
That was because of my father's belt.

731
00:57:16,791 --> 00:57:19,583
No, seriously.

732
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,375
I think it's coming
because I love my job, and...

733
00:57:24,666 --> 00:57:26,833
I am full of energy. And also...

734
00:57:28,833 --> 00:57:33,166
The audience stirs it up in me.
I like the support.

735
00:57:36,166 --> 00:57:41,750
Her relationship with her fans
was the most important thing to her.

736
00:57:43,625 --> 00:57:49,833
She tried
to be more authentic in interviews.

737
00:57:49,958 --> 00:57:55,000
Because if you, like them,
growing up in the business...

738
00:57:55,125 --> 00:57:59,916
then you learn what to say
and how to behave and all that.

739
00:58:00,041 --> 00:58:02,083
But then you become more yourself...

740
00:58:02,208 --> 00:58:06,250
and you want something from your character
and show your beliefs.

741
00:58:08,375 --> 00:58:10,416
Let's see, who's the playboy?

742
00:58:16,791 --> 00:58:18,791
Poor wretch.

743
00:58:22,041 --> 00:58:25,500
In Tejano music
it was quite difficult for us...

744
00:58:25,625 --> 00:58:27,458
because I am a woman.

745
00:58:27,943 --> 00:58:29,000
What's your name?

746
00:58:29,125 --> 00:58:30,208
Eddie.
- Okay, Eddie.

747
00:58:30,333 --> 00:58:34,791
This is your acting debut, okay?

748
00:58:34,916 --> 00:58:39,041
You're Eddie, my ex-boyfriend.

749
00:58:39,166 --> 00:58:43,875
My father had a lot of problems
with shows and presentations.

750
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,625
Many men don't think that a woman...

751
00:58:46,750 --> 00:58:51,416
the public the same way
can fascinate like a man.

752
00:58:51,541 --> 00:58:52,941
But...

753
00:58:53,500 --> 00:58:54,900
That's not right.

754
00:58:56,416 --> 00:58:58,208
What were you thinking?

755
00:59:02,083 --> 00:59:05,625
that you would come back

756
00:59:05,750 --> 00:59:08,708
and that I would be there

757
00:59:09,750 --> 00:59:16,250
ready to receive you

758
00:59:20,166 --> 00:59:21,166
nope

759
00:59:21,291 --> 00:59:26,000
'Qué creías' became a bit
her call to women.

760
00:59:27,583 --> 00:59:30,791
Solidarity, girl power.

761
00:59:30,916 --> 00:59:35,916
Like: I will be your spokesperson,
to be brave, fearless.

762
00:59:36,041 --> 00:59:38,791
Like: We don't need men.

763
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,250
Ironically found
the men are beautiful.

764
00:59:43,375 --> 00:59:48,666
They knew one of them was being chosen
to be on stage with Selena.

765
00:59:48,791 --> 00:59:51,000
Did you think you had a better love

766
00:59:52,708 --> 00:59:54,958
than would find mine

767
00:59:56,500 --> 00:59:58,916
that would make you happier

768
00:59:59,875 --> 01:00:05,916
but it's not that simple

769
01:00:08,583 --> 01:00:10,958
Do you consider yourself a strong woman?

770
01:00:11,083 --> 01:00:12,083
I think so.

771
01:00:12,583 --> 01:00:15,896
I am dominant and aggressive.
- Dominant and aggressive?

772
01:00:16,583 --> 01:00:18,541
You have to.
- Why?

773
01:00:18,666 --> 01:00:21,125
There are a lot of men in this business.

774
01:00:21,250 --> 01:00:26,250
If you don't stand up for yourself,
they will crush you.

775
01:00:26,375 --> 01:00:30,708
Do you think people abuse
would make of you in this business...

776
01:00:30,833 --> 01:00:33,250
if you weren't a strong woman?

777
01:00:33,375 --> 01:00:36,083
Precisely. That has already happened.

778
01:00:51,833 --> 01:00:54,125
SELENA
WE LOVE YOU.

779
01:01:04,666 --> 01:01:08,875
Where do you get that strength from?
that you communicate to the public?

780
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,291
Well, except from the public,
is it due to eating...

781
01:01:12,416 --> 01:01:14,375
beans and tortillas.

782
01:01:14,500 --> 01:01:15,900
Yes.

783
01:01:16,458 --> 01:01:19,041
And especially here in Monterrey: Goat.

784
01:01:21,416 --> 01:01:24,750
The gentlemen will thank me
when you turn around for a moment.

785
01:01:24,875 --> 01:01:26,750
They like to see your profile.

786
01:01:31,541 --> 01:01:32,750
But now you.

787
01:01:32,875 --> 01:01:35,541
No, I have nothing to show.
- Right, ladies?

788
01:01:35,666 --> 01:01:37,333
Very clever.

789
01:01:37,458 --> 01:01:39,916
I'm not as well endowed as you.

790
01:01:40,041 --> 01:01:43,000
I'm not as well endowed as you.
- Sure.

791
01:01:43,125 --> 01:01:45,833
Another one? Do you have another song, Selena?

792
01:01:50,583 --> 01:01:52,458
It's Selena's armpit.

793
01:01:52,583 --> 01:01:53,983
Si. Ouch.

794
01:01:55,083 --> 01:01:56,483
We want to see armpit.

795
01:01:56,916 --> 01:01:59,250
Armpit.

796
01:02:00,333 --> 01:02:05,250
From the day I joined the band,
it was so much fun...

797
01:02:05,375 --> 01:02:07,333
to spend time together.

798
01:02:07,458 --> 01:02:09,041
You know who came up with that.

799
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,375
Especially Selena.
- Language?

800
01:02:11,500 --> 01:02:13,250
We are in Monterrey.
- Yes.

801
01:02:13,375 --> 01:02:14,875
In Spanish, please.

802
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,833
We are here
in the beautiful city of Monterrey.

803
01:02:17,958 --> 01:02:19,750
Let Chris say what he says.

804
01:02:19,875 --> 01:02:23,250
Chris.
- Hi. I'm Chris.

805
01:02:24,375 --> 01:02:26,333
Chris Perez.

806
01:02:26,458 --> 01:02:28,758
And he plays guitar.
- And he plays guitar.

807
01:02:28,884 --> 01:02:29,958
Translate it.

808
01:02:30,083 --> 01:02:35,500
Our relationship started, I think,
when we were in Mexico.

809
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,541
It started on the plane home.

810
01:02:39,666 --> 01:02:42,083
Good?
- We have a lot of fun.

811
01:02:42,500 --> 01:02:46,000
Sitting closer together,
little things like that.

812
01:02:46,125 --> 01:02:47,541
A light touch.

813
01:02:53,791 --> 01:02:58,500
I thought: We're friends,
this is friendly.

814
01:02:58,625 --> 01:03:02,083
Doesn't matter. Don't look for anything behind it.

815
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,333
Chris Perez on guitar.

816
01:03:06,791 --> 01:03:12,166
I couldn't bring myself to do it
to take the first step.

817
01:03:13,166 --> 01:03:19,833
I think she knew that
so she took the initiative.

818
01:03:21,666 --> 01:03:24,875
And then things got serious very quickly.

819
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:26,666
You are my life, my everything

820
01:03:26,791 --> 01:03:29,791
come with me
I want you to be my darling

821
01:03:29,916 --> 01:03:32,875
I want to give you
what I have in my heart

822
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:37,375
I just started feeling butterflies,
things like that.

823
01:03:37,875 --> 01:03:42,541
But I said, 'No, this really isn't possible.
Your father would kill me.”

824
01:03:42,666 --> 01:03:44,666
She must have found that frustrating.

825
01:03:45,250 --> 01:03:48,250
But if she wanted something,
she was determined.

826
01:03:49,333 --> 01:03:52,625
And the very first time
that we kissed each other...

827
01:03:52,750 --> 01:03:57,333
It happened all of a sudden, and we only stopped
when the door suddenly opened.

828
01:03:57,458 --> 01:03:58,583
There stood Rick.

829
01:03:58,708 --> 01:04:00,108
I walked away, and...

830
01:04:00,833 --> 01:04:02,083
"I didn't see anything."

831
01:04:02,208 --> 01:04:03,208
We don't have...

832
01:04:03,333 --> 01:04:07,875
Did we talk about it later?
We must have been joking.

833
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,166
They probably said, "Sorry about that."

834
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,291
Something like that. "Sorry for what?"

835
01:04:13,875 --> 01:04:15,333
I was really...

836
01:04:16,416 --> 01:04:20,875
afraid of what's going on
could happen to Abraham, and...

837
01:04:22,083 --> 01:04:27,625
He said, 'Nothing happens.'
I said, 'That's impossible.'

838
01:04:30,208 --> 01:04:31,608
Then?

839
01:04:32,083 --> 01:04:36,458
In private it was just like any other relationship.

840
01:04:36,583 --> 01:04:39,250
We tried to be together a lot.

841
01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:45,500
Somewhere in Laredo we said for the first time
“I love you” to each other.

842
01:05:03,500 --> 01:05:06,958
That thing with Chris
and Selena was very secretive.

843
01:05:07,083 --> 01:05:11,500
Even when they were dating,
we didn't know much.

844
01:05:12,333 --> 01:05:16,333
They were afraid
that Abraham would find out.

845
01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:24,250
I never liked it
that it was a secret.

846
01:05:25,541 --> 01:05:27,541
I wanted Abraham's respect.

847
01:05:28,833 --> 01:05:33,125
But what she and I had,
I didn't want to endanger it.

848
01:05:33,250 --> 01:05:34,833
I wanted a free job.

849
01:05:35,791 --> 01:05:40,541
Many young admirers of yours
want to know if you have a boyfriend.

850
01:05:40,666 --> 01:05:42,166
I don't have a boyfriend.

851
01:05:42,916 --> 01:05:47,166
I now focus on my artistic career,
so i don't have a boyfriend.

852
01:05:47,791 --> 01:05:51,750
I've heard a lot of your Tejano music...

853
01:05:51,875 --> 01:05:55,500
and now also disco music, for example,
in English.

854
01:05:55,625 --> 01:05:58,125
What do you think?
most fun to record?

855
01:05:58,250 --> 01:06:01,416
I like all types of music.

856
01:06:03,083 --> 01:06:06,166
Can that happen again?
Sorry dad, you're making me nervous.

857
01:06:07,083 --> 01:06:08,483
Camera is running.

858
01:06:09,541 --> 01:06:14,208
It was a difficult situation,
until Abraham found out, and then...

859
01:06:14,875 --> 01:06:16,333
Then it got tough.

860
01:06:19,875 --> 01:06:23,625
At that point I thought:
Selena, you're still young.

861
01:06:23,750 --> 01:06:26,500
You have your whole life ahead of you.

862
01:06:27,958 --> 01:06:30,833
But Selena was
a very stubborn person.

863
01:06:32,791 --> 01:06:35,166
I had more life experience.

864
01:06:36,708 --> 01:06:39,958
And if I saw something happen...

865
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,125
I tried her
to keep you on the right path, and...

866
01:06:44,250 --> 01:06:48,583
Of course every father does that
with his daughters or sons.

867
01:06:51,041 --> 01:06:55,875
We got into an argument. "You're fired."
"I'm resigning." "You..."

868
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,791
That's how it went. And then I was out.

869
01:06:59,875 --> 01:07:01,275
And...

870
01:07:02,791 --> 01:07:05,354
I remember being very sad...

871
01:07:05,791 --> 01:07:08,541
that we don't anymore
were able to tour together.

872
01:07:08,958 --> 01:07:13,041
It became harder for me
and Selena to be together.

873
01:07:13,541 --> 01:07:16,041
We lived like this for a few months.

874
01:07:21,625 --> 01:07:24,791
“Gee, Chris.
I have such difficulty concentrating.

875
01:07:24,916 --> 01:07:28,958
It's ridiculous. I'm going completely crazy.

876
01:07:29,875 --> 01:07:35,041
I wish everyone would leave me alone.
Can't they see that I love you?

877
01:07:35,541 --> 01:07:38,229
Maybe they think
that I play games.

878
01:07:38,750 --> 01:07:41,791
I'm sorry I scared you like that
about getting married.

879
01:07:41,916 --> 01:07:47,875
But I'm trying to figure out if you,
or how much you love me.

880
01:07:48,458 --> 01:07:53,250
Remember that I love you forever.
And I miss you more every second.

881
01:07:53,375 --> 01:07:55,458
I love you. Selena.'

882
01:08:22,708 --> 01:08:26,166
Once I was sleeping,
and then there was a knock.

883
01:08:26,291 --> 01:08:27,691
It was Selena.

884
01:08:28,375 --> 01:08:30,583
She said, 'Let's get married.'

885
01:08:30,708 --> 01:08:35,958
And I said, 'No, not like this.
This is not what I want for you.”

886
01:08:38,208 --> 01:08:41,083
Selena wasn't even 21 yet.

887
01:08:42,041 --> 01:08:49,041
That was a big concern for my parents,
for me, for everyone.

888
01:08:50,916 --> 01:08:53,708
Selena always talked about a wedding.

889
01:08:53,833 --> 01:08:58,583
Her wedding dress...
She had it all in her head.

890
01:08:58,708 --> 01:09:00,333
How she wanted everything.

891
01:09:00,916 --> 01:09:06,125
I thought we would find a way
to make everything right...

892
01:09:06,250 --> 01:09:10,041
and have a fairytale wedding
the way she wanted.

893
01:09:10,750 --> 01:09:13,416
And she said, 'That's never going to happen.'

894
01:09:13,541 --> 01:09:16,208
At that moment
my love for her was enough.

895
01:09:16,333 --> 01:09:20,416
Let's be together, whatever that means.
Whatever that looks like.

896
01:09:20,541 --> 01:09:22,636
And before I knew it...

897
01:09:22,762 --> 01:09:23,791
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

898
01:09:23,916 --> 01:09:25,375
we were married.

899
01:09:25,500 --> 01:09:31,875
I called my father and he said:
"Well, your sister is married."

900
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:36,000
"Now she's married."
I said, 'What?' That's how I found out.

901
01:09:37,833 --> 01:09:39,458
Don't laugh too hard, honey.

902
01:09:39,583 --> 01:09:42,791
I was disappointed. They were very young.

903
01:09:43,541 --> 01:09:48,583
I didn't think so at the time
that it was really what she wanted.

904
01:09:49,541 --> 01:09:51,083
I was hurt.

905
01:09:52,666 --> 01:09:55,416
I was really hurt.

906
01:09:55,541 --> 01:10:00,458
Because my daughter
did not take her father into account.

907
01:10:02,875 --> 01:10:07,291
I remember
that she was going to talk to my parents.

908
01:10:07,790 --> 01:10:08,791
Laugh.

909
01:10:08,916 --> 01:10:14,833
She was scared,
because everything was so heated and nerve-wracking.

910
01:10:14,958 --> 01:10:16,358
Chris.

911
01:10:18,208 --> 01:10:21,875
We sat there, we said:
"What's going on?"

912
01:10:22,833 --> 01:10:25,541
Then she said it.
You could tell she had been crying.

913
01:10:25,666 --> 01:10:28,333
You saw that my parents had cried.

914
01:10:28,458 --> 01:10:31,333
And she hugged me.
And then she opened the door.

915
01:10:31,458 --> 01:10:34,083
She said, 'Chris, come in,'
and he did.

916
01:10:34,208 --> 01:10:39,458
And my father hugged Chris and said:
"Welcome to the family."

917
01:10:40,458 --> 01:10:44,875
They didn't listen to me.
They got married secretly.

918
01:10:45,791 --> 01:10:49,333
From that moment on
I could only accept it.

919
01:10:50,041 --> 01:10:53,291
It is what it is,
and I can't change anything.

920
01:10:55,583 --> 01:11:01,166
And I said, 'Okay, what's next?
What are we going to do now?'

921
01:11:01,666 --> 01:11:04,625
And Abraham said, 'You're going on tour.'

922
01:11:04,750 --> 01:11:08,000
There's someone in your band
who now belongs to your family.

923
01:11:08,125 --> 01:11:09,525
My husband?

924
01:11:10,041 --> 01:11:14,833
We've been married for about a month now,
and I'm so in love with my husband.

925
01:11:15,458 --> 01:11:16,858
He's so nice.

926
01:11:17,041 --> 01:11:20,125
We were friends first. That attracted me.

927
01:11:20,666 --> 01:11:22,066
Hey, jerk.

928
01:11:22,541 --> 01:11:27,333
With all our hearts
we love each other with all our hearts

929
01:11:27,916 --> 01:11:29,708
Sounds like a jeweler.

930
01:11:31,250 --> 01:11:37,674
Mr. Driver, can you tell us
to a nice restaurant?

931
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:38,834
Right now?

932
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:46,000
In an instant. All that tension and that...

933
01:11:46,125 --> 01:11:47,625
It was gone.

934
01:11:47,750 --> 01:11:49,150
Suzy...

935
01:11:50,333 --> 01:11:52,250
But Marcy says nothing.

936
01:11:52,375 --> 01:11:53,775
Not...

937
01:12:03,625 --> 01:12:09,250
After she married Chris,
Selena often talked about her dreams.

938
01:12:09,375 --> 01:12:15,458
Then she took off her makeup
and put her hair in a bun.

939
01:12:15,583 --> 01:12:17,875
We were talking about...

940
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:23,041
marry, that I would ever marry,
that she would have children...

941
01:12:23,166 --> 01:12:28,875
and that our children would be together
play. And that we would raise them together.

942
01:12:31,791 --> 01:12:33,191
Sorry.

943
01:12:33,583 --> 01:12:35,541
Just normal stuff.

944
01:12:43,083 --> 01:12:45,625
Say hello.
- Hello.

945
01:12:45,750 --> 01:12:47,625
Can I say 'wow'?

946
01:12:50,625 --> 01:12:52,025
Guided tour.

947
01:12:52,291 --> 01:12:53,691
This is it.

948
01:12:53,833 --> 01:12:54,958
Very simple.

949
01:12:55,083 --> 01:12:57,750
I'm glad she did it that way.

950
01:12:57,875 --> 01:13:03,916
She has experienced love,
she was a wife, and...

951
01:13:05,125 --> 01:13:06,916
What if she had waited?

952
01:13:08,083 --> 01:13:12,625
May we introduce you to the beautiful Selena.

953
01:13:21,500 --> 01:13:25,541
HOUSTON ASTRODOME
TEXAS, USA

954
01:13:26,458 --> 01:13:32,458
Once we were married,
everything went very quickly.

955
01:13:32,916 --> 01:13:37,958
I am very happy, grateful and proud
that we are part of this rodeo.

956
01:13:38,083 --> 01:13:41,250
A beautiful thing,
because with almost 60,000 people...

957
01:13:41,375 --> 01:13:43,208
this is the most visited ever.

958
01:13:43,333 --> 01:13:45,625
Insane. I can't believe it.

959
01:13:46,375 --> 01:13:48,958
But I am very happy, very happy.

960
01:14:13,875 --> 01:14:15,833
That thing with 'Como La Flor'...

961
01:14:16,541 --> 01:14:21,166
I remember we were in a motel
while on tour...

962
01:14:21,666 --> 01:14:25,791
A.B. came out of the shower.
He said to Joe, "Get the keyboard."

963
01:14:28,666 --> 01:14:30,791
I finished the text.

964
01:14:30,916 --> 01:14:33,916
A.B. approved it
and we went to the studio.

965
01:14:36,916 --> 01:14:41,625
'Como La Flor' was a hit.
Everyone just loved it.

966
01:14:52,375 --> 01:14:55,916
For many, 'Como La Flor' is the anthem.

967
01:15:11,666 --> 01:15:15,166
She is the best-selling Latin artist
from EMI Records.

968
01:15:15,291 --> 01:15:18,750
The 22-year-old performs with her husband,
her brother and her sister.

969
01:15:18,875 --> 01:15:23,000
And nowadays Selena sings
itself anything but the blues.

970
01:15:24,500 --> 01:15:28,625
Her popularity, friendliness
and charismatic appearance...

971
01:15:28,750 --> 01:15:32,375
is starting to attract attention
from advertisers like Coca-Cola...

972
01:15:32,500 --> 01:15:36,666
who see her as the fresh, new voice
of the young Latino generation.

973
01:15:36,791 --> 01:15:40,541
Of course I love Coca-Cola.
It is the ultimate soft drink.

974
01:15:51,958 --> 01:15:56,333
That contract with Coca-Cola,
she was very proud of that.

975
01:15:56,458 --> 01:16:02,125
A major brand wanted
a Tejano artist as a representative.

976
01:16:02,250 --> 01:16:03,708
That was crazy.

977
01:16:11,958 --> 01:16:17,125
This price is for 300,000 copies
from the album Entre a Mi Mundo.

978
01:16:17,625 --> 01:16:19,025
Okay.

979
01:16:22,750 --> 01:16:27,666
And we also present you the new album,
Selena Live..

980
01:16:27,791 --> 01:16:32,333
God willing, we will be here again soon
with triple platinum Selena Live..

981
01:16:32,458 --> 01:16:34,967
In two months this album...
- Two months.

982
01:16:35,093 --> 01:16:37,375
already sold 100,000 copies.

983
01:16:38,583 --> 01:16:43,458
Do you ever want to do something solo?
or will you continue to work with your group?

984
01:16:43,583 --> 01:16:47,041
I always work with them.
The group is my family.

985
01:16:47,166 --> 01:16:52,458
If I were to leave the group,
I would feel insecure.

986
01:16:52,583 --> 01:16:54,666
I feel very comfortable here.

987
01:16:54,791 --> 01:16:59,083
But on the cover
from your album is 'Selena'.

988
01:16:59,208 --> 01:17:03,041
Not the name of your group.
It goes without saying, but there's nothing there.

989
01:17:03,166 --> 01:17:06,166
People already know
that the group is Selena y Los Dinos.

990
01:17:06,291 --> 01:17:11,541
We use the name 'Selena'
for the English market...

991
01:17:11,666 --> 01:17:15,958
because it's much easier
to remember 'Selena'.

992
01:17:24,500 --> 01:17:27,708
We have... In my family we have...

993
01:17:28,500 --> 01:17:30,333
Opinion. How do you say that?

994
01:17:30,458 --> 01:17:31,858
A...

995
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:33,041
A belief.

996
01:17:33,188 --> 01:17:39,083
We have the conviction
that it is not about one person.

997
01:17:39,208 --> 01:17:44,916
It's about the group.
And if I, how do you say...

998
01:17:45,041 --> 01:17:48,354
if I win, they win.
I don't do it alone.

999
01:17:56,666 --> 01:17:58,666
Another song, 'Ya Ves'.

1000
01:18:00,583 --> 01:18:05,875
I always say: Selena y Los Dinos...
We were a band.

1001
01:18:07,250 --> 01:18:08,875
In her later career...

1002
01:18:09,750 --> 01:18:11,150
it became 'Selena'.

1003
01:18:11,708 --> 01:18:14,666
But it was the same band.
The Dinos were still there.

1004
01:18:14,791 --> 01:18:16,875
They just stopped calling us.

1005
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:19,688
But we were there.
It was the same band.

1006
01:18:21,208 --> 01:18:26,208
Selena was a great entertainer,
artist, icon.

1007
01:18:27,125 --> 01:18:29,333
But the basis was Los Dinos.

1008
01:18:30,375 --> 01:18:35,458
This is where the Quintanilla family builds
a base in Corpus Christi.

1009
01:18:35,583 --> 01:18:38,875
In an uncle's garage,
which is still being renovated.

1010
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:42,166
It's starting to become something.
It's one big garage.

1011
01:18:42,291 --> 01:18:44,416
They sealed those doors.

1012
01:18:44,541 --> 01:18:46,625
Here they make a recording studio.

1013
01:18:46,750 --> 01:18:50,250
Then we can record here
in our digital studio.

1014
01:18:53,250 --> 01:18:54,750
Ricky, what key?

1015
01:18:54,875 --> 01:18:56,541
She is working on a new album.

1016
01:18:56,666 --> 01:18:59,541
She practices with her producer,
also her brother.

1017
01:19:07,500 --> 01:19:10,625
I can't take credit
for 'Amor Prohibido'...

1018
01:19:10,750 --> 01:19:16,333
because Selena contributed to that.

1019
01:19:16,458 --> 01:19:18,875
She came up with the 'oh, oh, baby' bit.

1020
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:25,041
And that song wouldn't exist
without 'oh, oh, baby.'

1021
01:19:26,291 --> 01:19:28,208
There was a gap there for me.

1022
01:19:28,708 --> 01:19:30,916
And she sang it naturally.

1023
01:19:31,041 --> 01:19:36,916
I could direct myself in the studio.
Nobody said, 'Sing it like this.'

1024
01:19:37,041 --> 01:19:38,916
I could correct myself.

1025
01:19:39,041 --> 01:19:43,000
That was very nice.
I could continue until I was satisfied.

1026
01:19:47,375 --> 01:19:49,875
When I started writing the text...

1027
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:55,791
I was worried because there is a piece
where she rebels against her parents.

1028
01:19:55,916 --> 01:19:59,166
'It's about love.
It doesn't matter what your parents say.'

1029
01:19:59,291 --> 01:20:04,500
who cares what they say
your father and your mother

1030
01:20:04,625 --> 01:20:09,791
here only our love counts
i love you

1031
01:20:09,916 --> 01:20:13,000
This album really showed
the maturity of the group.

1032
01:20:13,125 --> 01:20:15,291
You live life and write about it.

1033
01:20:15,416 --> 01:20:20,541
The music showed another side of me,
a more mature side.

1034
01:20:21,833 --> 01:20:27,083
If I don't have to perform or be on TV,
then I like to wear this.

1035
01:20:27,208 --> 01:20:29,208
Relaxed. Just like everyone else.

1036
01:20:29,916 --> 01:20:31,250
This is for show.

1037
01:20:31,375 --> 01:20:33,791
They are now going to sand the floors again.

1038
01:20:33,916 --> 01:20:36,958
What Selena's boutique
and salon in Corpus Christi concerns:

1039
01:20:37,083 --> 01:20:40,791
the Tejano singer wants her talent
exploring outside of music.

1040
01:20:40,916 --> 01:20:44,125
Fashion is part of entertainment.
People like glamour.

1041
01:20:44,250 --> 01:20:46,833
I thought it would be fun
to have a clothing line.

1042
01:20:46,958 --> 01:20:49,583
I want proof
that I'm intelligent enough...

1043
01:20:49,708 --> 01:20:52,583
to be next to entertainer
also to be a businesswoman.

1044
01:20:53,041 --> 01:20:56,500
Thanks for coming,
and your support for this endeavor.

1045
01:20:56,625 --> 01:20:59,041
I hope you guys
enjoy the offer.

1046
01:20:59,166 --> 01:21:02,875
After music was
her clothing line her passion.

1047
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,708
That made her happy.

1048
01:21:05,208 --> 01:21:07,875
Her family was concerned...

1049
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:12,791
that she took on too much.

1050
01:21:12,916 --> 01:21:19,833
Life on tour
had become very busy and hectic.

1051
01:21:21,375 --> 01:21:25,500
And she wanted to have her own thing,
so to speak.

1052
01:21:25,625 --> 01:21:28,250
What do you think of your daughter's new store?

1053
01:21:29,083 --> 01:21:30,483
Well...

1054
01:21:34,916 --> 01:21:38,541
Many people thought
that she would stop singing.

1055
01:21:38,666 --> 01:21:41,875
No. She's a...

1056
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:46,166
Selena is intelligent.
She knows that the money comes from singing.

1057
01:21:46,791 --> 01:21:48,333
Not from tailoring.

1058
01:21:55,708 --> 01:22:01,250
She always said that an artist
can reach a certain point.

1059
01:22:01,375 --> 01:22:06,958
And then you need something
that you can fall back on.

1060
01:22:07,708 --> 01:22:11,125
She knew later
would start a family...

1061
01:22:11,250 --> 01:22:13,563
and then she would have her shops.

1062
01:22:14,083 --> 01:22:16,625
I would like to have children later.

1063
01:22:16,750 --> 01:22:20,041
I think it's part
of my femininity is...

1064
01:22:20,166 --> 01:22:23,916
that as a woman I miss that now.
Especially in the future.

1065
01:22:24,041 --> 01:22:31,041
I want all the goals first
what I have in my head.

1066
01:22:31,625 --> 01:22:36,833
When I have time for children later,
then of course I will have six children.

1067
01:22:37,708 --> 01:22:39,108
Another group.

1068
01:22:39,701 --> 01:22:40,708
Hi, Selena.

1069
01:22:40,833 --> 01:22:42,233
Hello.
- Hey.

1070
01:22:43,083 --> 01:22:45,771
Here's Selena. How are you?
- Good, thanks.

1071
01:22:46,208 --> 01:22:48,208
Nice to meet you.
- Likewise.

1072
01:22:48,333 --> 01:22:51,416
It's getting busy.
- There are a lot of people. It's getting full.

1073
01:22:51,541 --> 01:22:55,250
Hopefully it's super full.

1074
01:22:55,875 --> 01:22:58,083
Mexico was a shock.

1075
01:22:58,583 --> 01:23:04,833
That opened all doors.
And as for the number of visitors...

1076
01:23:06,666 --> 01:23:08,458
I couldn't believe it.

1077
01:23:08,583 --> 01:23:12,083
What is it like to be back?
in Monterrey and fill the room...

1078
01:23:12,208 --> 01:23:14,250
with thousands of people?

1079
01:23:14,375 --> 01:23:18,291
I'm really surprised and excited.

1080
01:23:19,083 --> 01:23:21,500
And nervous.
- I'm very happy with it.

1081
01:23:21,625 --> 01:23:24,541
We followed you
along different places.

1082
01:23:24,666 --> 01:23:26,708
You filled the Astrodrome in Houston.

1083
01:23:26,833 --> 01:23:30,333
But in Monterrey
it's like the fans are shouting louder...

1084
01:23:30,458 --> 01:23:34,291
and their affection
showing you at full power.

1085
01:23:45,541 --> 01:23:48,750
Talk about the records
that you broke in Monterrey.

1086
01:23:48,875 --> 01:23:53,833
We were allowed as a group
inaugurate the baseball stadium.

1087
01:23:53,958 --> 01:23:59,791
And there were many artists,
like Juan Gabriel, Yuri, Verónica Castro.

1088
01:23:59,916 --> 01:24:04,000
We were the only group
which filled the entire stadium.

1089
01:24:10,375 --> 01:24:17,208
That was that aha moment:
my God, what is this?

1090
01:24:17,333 --> 01:24:20,916
What are we doing here?
How did we get here?

1091
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:25,625
How do we deal with this?
It's pure chaos, really.

1092
01:24:25,750 --> 01:24:29,041
The people were just...
They wanted to see Selena.

1093
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:35,208
Then that success started in Mexico
the success here...

1094
01:24:35,333 --> 01:24:38,000
to double or triple.

1095
01:24:47,833 --> 01:24:51,166
'Bidi Bidi Bom Bom'
is one of Selena's biggest hits.

1096
01:24:51,958 --> 01:24:54,125
This was a monster hit.

1097
01:25:04,625 --> 01:25:08,625
Within Tejano music
Selena was the cream of the crop.

1098
01:25:08,750 --> 01:25:11,375
She showed
that she had reached the top here.

1099
01:25:11,500 --> 01:25:14,166
The next step is the US or Europe.

1100
01:25:16,166 --> 01:25:22,000
I never thought
to become a famous singer, but...

1101
01:25:22,125 --> 01:25:23,666
Famous, say it.
- No.

1102
01:25:23,791 --> 01:25:25,191
Yes, you are famous.

1103
01:25:25,750 --> 01:25:28,958
We love her music. It's okay.
- Great singer.

1104
01:25:29,083 --> 01:25:31,500
It's fun music to dance to.

1105
01:25:31,625 --> 01:25:33,166
You can dance to it.
- She's cool.

1106
01:25:33,291 --> 01:25:37,916
She gave me self-confidence
to be a woman who speaks Spanish...

1107
01:25:38,041 --> 01:25:40,333
and can do whatever she wants.

1108
01:25:40,458 --> 01:25:42,708
Yes, my son never spoke Spanish.

1109
01:25:42,833 --> 01:25:46,416
But when he heard Selena,
he started learning Spanish words.

1110
01:25:46,541 --> 01:25:50,333
It's not alone
that she is Mexican-American.

1111
01:25:50,458 --> 01:25:53,625
She is Mexican and American.

1112
01:25:53,750 --> 01:25:56,333
She's great.
- I like to dance to her music.

1113
01:25:56,458 --> 01:26:00,916
It's great that young people
who don't care much about their roots...

1114
01:26:01,041 --> 01:26:05,375
the culture of la música Tejana,
or the Spanish language...

1115
01:26:05,500 --> 01:26:08,750
listen to it now
and start speaking the language.

1116
01:26:08,875 --> 01:26:11,833
When you're closer to your roots
and your culture comes...

1117
01:26:11,958 --> 01:26:13,666
then you understand who you are.

1118
01:26:13,791 --> 01:26:17,500
We love you, Selena.

1119
01:26:31,291 --> 01:26:33,375
Selena worked really hard.

1120
01:26:34,500 --> 01:26:37,166
Three, four hours of sleep, hardly any food.

1121
01:26:39,708 --> 01:26:43,333
But she knew she had to get the job done.

1122
01:26:43,875 --> 01:26:45,275
Where were you?

1123
01:26:46,833 --> 01:26:50,375
Where were you?

1124
01:26:52,541 --> 01:26:55,884
Did you have to look for your bag?
- No, I had to make a phone call.

1125
01:26:56,010 --> 01:26:57,041
Real?
- For...

1126
01:26:57,166 --> 01:26:59,958
And I had to
take out my credit cards.

1127
01:27:00,083 --> 01:27:02,791
You need that for shopping.
- Precisely.

1128
01:27:03,375 --> 01:27:04,791
And?
- Did you hug him?

1129
01:27:04,916 --> 01:27:07,625
It became increasingly difficult for her.

1130
01:27:19,833 --> 01:27:21,958
Finished. Here we go.

1131
01:27:40,125 --> 01:27:41,525
Okay, cut.

1132
01:27:41,791 --> 01:27:44,632
Pretty good. Cut. Again?

1133
01:27:44,759 --> 01:27:45,875
That's him.

1134
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,666
One more time and then we're done.

1135
01:27:48,791 --> 01:27:55,541
I think she realized
that a change was coming...

1136
01:27:55,666 --> 01:27:58,416
in what she was used to.

1137
01:27:58,916 --> 01:28:00,833
What we were all used to.

1138
01:28:03,416 --> 01:28:08,458
Welcome to the 36th Annual Grammy Awards,
live from New York City.

1139
01:28:08,583 --> 01:28:10,166
From the Radio City Music Hall...

1140
01:28:10,291 --> 01:28:14,125
The Grammy nomination was exciting.

1141
01:28:14,250 --> 01:28:16,750
We were completely floored.

1142
01:28:18,125 --> 01:28:24,958
It was fantastic to have that experience
to take her in with us.

1143
01:28:25,083 --> 01:28:27,541
She had her hair done.

1144
01:28:27,666 --> 01:28:31,166
All the ladies who were washing their hair,
knew Selena.

1145
01:28:31,291 --> 01:28:34,041
They were the only Latinos
in that tent, that...

1146
01:28:34,166 --> 01:28:38,833
They said, 'Oh, my God.'
Soon the entire salon knew.

1147
01:28:38,958 --> 01:28:43,500
Before you know it,
we are treated like royalty.

1148
01:28:43,625 --> 01:28:46,875
A little later I got ready.
She was ready.

1149
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:50,000
And... I will never forget this moment.

1150
01:28:50,666 --> 01:28:53,250
She came out and my jaw dropped.

1151
01:28:53,375 --> 01:29:00,166
'You look fantastic.
Oh, my God. You look perfect.”

1152
01:29:00,291 --> 01:29:03,000
There were ten of us
in the back row...

1153
01:29:03,125 --> 01:29:06,500
because we were too late.
As always. I'm always late.

1154
01:29:06,625 --> 01:29:10,500
And then they declared me the winner.
- The Grammy goes to...

1155
01:29:10,625 --> 01:29:12,375
I said, 'My God.'
-Live., Selena.

1156
01:29:12,500 --> 01:29:16,375
Our whole line stood up, and...

1157
01:29:17,333 --> 01:29:19,000
I said, 'Oh, my God.'

1158
01:29:19,125 --> 01:29:22,875
I would like to thank the company,
Capitol EMI Latin, José Behar...

1159
01:29:23,208 --> 01:29:28,166
that you made this possible
and believed in us four years ago.

1160
01:29:28,291 --> 01:29:31,083
I want to thank the band,
Los Dinos, my father, Abraham...

1161
01:29:31,208 --> 01:29:35,041
my brother, the producer of my music,
and also my sister.

1162
01:29:35,166 --> 01:29:37,166
Thank you for your support. I want...

1163
01:29:37,291 --> 01:29:39,958
The album was groundbreaking.

1164
01:29:40,583 --> 01:29:45,000
They stretched and pushed the boundaries.

1165
01:29:45,125 --> 01:29:47,708
She has won multiple Tejano Music Awards...

1166
01:29:47,833 --> 01:29:50,750
including Best Female Vocalist
and Entertainer of the Year...

1167
01:29:50,875 --> 01:29:54,750
and she recently won her first Grammy
with the album Selena Live..

1168
01:29:54,875 --> 01:29:56,313
I'm still baffled.

1169
01:29:56,750 --> 01:30:00,313
Winning the Grammy was great.
If only I had been there.

1170
01:30:00,625 --> 01:30:03,416
There weren't enough cards.
I couldn't come.

1171
01:30:03,541 --> 01:30:07,708
But I didn't know
that the producer also wins a Grammy.

1172
01:30:07,833 --> 01:30:11,250
So I won a Grammy too.
But I didn't know that.

1173
01:30:11,375 --> 01:30:14,188
I didn't think
that we would win something.

1174
01:30:14,583 --> 01:30:16,000
I didn't even think...

1175
01:30:16,125 --> 01:30:21,208
It was truly an honor
to be nominated.

1176
01:30:21,333 --> 01:30:25,666
I brought my camera
to take pictures with all the stars.

1177
01:30:26,375 --> 01:30:29,500
I wasn't even thinking about the nomination.

1178
01:30:29,625 --> 01:30:33,458
And they wanted pictures with you.
- My camera wasn't allowed in.

1179
01:30:33,583 --> 01:30:35,521
No?
- No, but I got this...

1180
01:30:36,666 --> 01:30:40,708
She is the biggest Tejano superstar
in years.

1181
01:30:40,833 --> 01:30:43,000
She only has one name: Selena.

1182
01:30:43,125 --> 01:30:45,125
After two years of negotiations...

1183
01:30:45,250 --> 01:30:47,958
she signs a contract
for an English album.

1184
01:30:48,083 --> 01:30:51,583
After waiting so long,
everything had to be perfect for Selena.

1185
01:30:51,708 --> 01:30:54,125
We signed to SBK Records,
everything in English.

1186
01:30:54,250 --> 01:30:56,000
It is part of EMI.

1187
01:30:56,583 --> 01:30:58,458
We look forward to the crossing.

1188
01:30:58,583 --> 01:31:01,521
Selena just signed
at Capitol Worldwide.

1189
01:31:02,208 --> 01:31:04,208
She becomes a real celebrity.

1190
01:31:04,916 --> 01:31:06,416
But wait a minute.

1191
01:31:06,541 --> 01:31:10,666
Something the representative
of the English market made it clear...

1192
01:31:10,791 --> 01:31:14,916
was that Tejano music is global.

1193
01:31:15,041 --> 01:31:18,229
So we'll have the Tejano music
never leave, okay?

1194
01:31:24,208 --> 01:31:27,666
She was still in the early stages,
picking out songs and stuff.

1195
01:31:27,791 --> 01:31:31,791
But that this English album
was finally coming...

1196
01:31:31,916 --> 01:31:33,916
She was thrilled with it.

1197
01:31:34,500 --> 01:31:36,375
That was really her dream.

1198
01:31:36,500 --> 01:31:38,125
Are you even busier now?

1199
01:31:38,250 --> 01:31:41,041
You're still touring too, right?
- Much busier, yes.

1200
01:31:41,166 --> 01:31:44,833
We're touring, we want to go into the studio
to record the album...

1201
01:31:44,958 --> 01:31:46,208
and other things.

1202
01:31:46,333 --> 01:31:51,041
But you hope for something
when things don't go so well...

1203
01:31:51,166 --> 01:31:55,041
And if you want to take it easy,
but you think about where you started...

1204
01:31:55,166 --> 01:31:56,666
you appreciate it more.

1205
01:31:57,250 --> 01:31:59,291
English was my native language.

1206
01:31:59,875 --> 01:32:03,250
I'm already listening
English music all my life.

1207
01:32:04,041 --> 01:32:07,083
I've wanted to do this for a long time.

1208
01:32:09,333 --> 01:32:14,083
You have to try to make your dreams come true,
otherwise you will never know.

1209
01:32:15,333 --> 01:32:18,750
I myself will go for my soul and salvation
put it in.

1210
01:32:18,875 --> 01:32:23,583
I hope the public supports us.
It won't be Tex-Mex music.

1211
01:32:23,708 --> 01:32:28,708
It will be contemporary pop and RandB.
It will be very different.

1212
01:32:29,208 --> 01:32:34,041
Are you already sure what you are going to achieve?
or is that fear still there?

1213
01:32:34,166 --> 01:32:36,000
I'm scared.
- Yes?

1214
01:32:36,125 --> 01:32:37,750
Naturally.
- A lot, or a little?

1215
01:32:37,875 --> 01:32:41,666
Really bad. I'm very scared.

1216
01:32:41,791 --> 01:32:44,541
But you have to try. To know.

1217
01:32:45,041 --> 01:32:46,441
She understood that...

1218
01:32:47,583 --> 01:32:52,000
the line-up of the band
should change, and...

1219
01:32:52,500 --> 01:32:54,166
that scared her.

1220
01:32:56,208 --> 01:33:01,041
She was used to that power
to have behind them with Los Dinos...

1221
01:33:01,916 --> 01:33:04,604
and she didn't know what to expect...

1222
01:33:05,791 --> 01:33:09,875
with the publication of the new album.

1223
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:12,833
How are you, Houston, Texas?

1224
01:33:45,250 --> 01:33:46,791
She burst into tears.

1225
01:33:46,916 --> 01:33:50,666
She said, 'Part of me wants this,
and some not'.

1226
01:33:50,791 --> 01:33:53,083
I said, 'Why doesn't some of them want it?'

1227
01:33:53,208 --> 01:33:57,916
She said, 'Cause I'm leaving you behind,
and Suzette, Dad, and everything I know.”

1228
01:33:58,041 --> 01:34:00,625
I said, 'You're not leaving us behind.

1229
01:34:00,750 --> 01:34:04,375
This has always been the plan,
the English market.'

1230
01:34:10,375 --> 01:34:13,583
She is the biggest Tejano superstar
in years.

1231
01:34:15,541 --> 01:34:18,041
She's breaking records all over the country...

1232
01:34:18,166 --> 01:34:20,416
also in Mexico
and Central and South America.

1233
01:34:20,541 --> 01:34:23,041
Here's Selena.

1234
01:34:24,208 --> 01:34:28,041
Selena, a superstar
at the tender age of 23.

1235
01:34:28,833 --> 01:34:30,233
We all knew...

1236
01:34:30,625 --> 01:34:36,041
that Selena was more famous than she thought.

1237
01:34:36,166 --> 01:34:37,916
She didn't know it herself.

1238
01:34:46,333 --> 01:34:47,958
This was her moment.

1239
01:34:54,416 --> 01:34:58,458
She wasn't going to leave us.
She found it really hard.

1240
01:34:58,583 --> 01:34:59,983
She cried.

1241
01:35:07,583 --> 01:35:10,333
We had a family conversation.
We talked about it.

1242
01:35:10,458 --> 01:35:15,250
I said, 'I can't be your drummer anymore.
I'll be on the sidelines.'

1243
01:35:35,708 --> 01:35:37,458
And I remember saying:

1244
01:35:38,041 --> 01:35:42,291
'Nothing can ever separate us,
for we are one.”

1245
01:35:59,666 --> 01:36:03,250
This is what I look like after the show, without...

1246
01:36:04,451 --> 01:36:05,541
hairpiece.

1247
01:36:05,666 --> 01:36:11,250
This is the real hair,
that's attached to my real head.

1248
01:36:12,125 --> 01:36:16,458
Anyway, I know everyone
will watch this video...

1249
01:36:16,583 --> 01:36:20,291
and I wanted to say:
you guys were stupid tonight.

1250
01:36:21,458 --> 01:36:24,166
Just kidding. You guys were great.

1251
01:36:24,291 --> 01:36:27,583
I hate what you guys say
that I am the front woman.

1252
01:36:27,708 --> 01:36:30,021
I hate it when you're right.

1253
01:36:31,625 --> 01:36:36,166
Just kidding. Without you I am nothing.
I wanted to say I love you.

1254
01:36:36,291 --> 01:36:37,750
And keep it up.

1255
01:36:45,916 --> 01:36:47,416
This is 112, emergency number.

1256
01:36:47,958 --> 01:36:50,541
There is a woman
who says she was shot.

1257
01:36:50,666 --> 01:36:52,833
She's on the ground, there's blood.

1258
01:36:54,541 --> 01:36:57,375
How old is she?
- She looks 20.

1259
01:37:00,625 --> 01:37:04,333
Once again: Selena, the Tejano superstar,
has been shot.

1260
01:37:04,458 --> 01:37:06,541
We don't know what her condition is.

1261
01:37:06,666 --> 01:37:12,916
But we continue this story all afternoon
follow with live reports. We have...

1262
01:37:13,041 --> 01:37:15,291
I drove up, I had no idea.

1263
01:37:15,416 --> 01:37:17,791
Selena was shot.
- Interrupt?

1264
01:37:18,958 --> 01:37:20,083
I'm going to take a look.

1265
01:37:20,208 --> 01:37:21,833
Just tell them...

1266
01:37:21,958 --> 01:37:24,208
bring it back and leave those tapes there.

1267
01:37:24,333 --> 01:37:28,250
The police heard about it an hour and a half ago
Corpus Christi that Selena Quintanilla...

1268
01:37:28,375 --> 01:37:32,208
the Tejano singer who recently
won a Grammy, was shot...

1269
01:37:32,333 --> 01:37:34,771
I was in the studio waiting for her.

1270
01:37:35,333 --> 01:37:39,333
Started fifteen minutes later
all the phones ringing at Q.

1271
01:37:39,458 --> 01:37:41,250
I got a call...

1272
01:37:42,375 --> 01:37:46,000
by a friend. She said something like:

1273
01:37:46,500 --> 01:37:48,958
"You need to go to the hospital now."

1274
01:37:49,541 --> 01:37:53,375
Selena is in critical condition
at Memorial Medical Center.

1275
01:37:53,500 --> 01:37:55,791
We will keep you informed.

1276
01:37:55,916 --> 01:37:58,291
The receptionist screamed, the phone rang.

1277
01:37:58,416 --> 01:38:01,166
'What is?'
"Selena is in the emergency room."

1278
01:38:01,625 --> 01:38:07,791
I came in and saw the press.
They were already there with their cameras.

1279
01:38:07,916 --> 01:38:08,916
Incredible.

1280
01:38:09,041 --> 01:38:10,625
Meanwhile, there are people...

1281
01:38:10,750 --> 01:38:13,625
hundreds of people,
Selena Quintanilla fans.

1282
01:38:13,750 --> 01:38:16,813
I got a call
by everyone you can think of.

1283
01:38:17,166 --> 01:38:21,000
And I couldn't tell them anything.

1284
01:38:21,125 --> 01:38:23,083
The hotel and hospital remain silent.

1285
01:38:23,208 --> 01:38:25,583
There is an unconfirmed report that...

1286
01:38:25,708 --> 01:38:29,208
Fans gathered
at the motel parking lot...

1287
01:38:29,333 --> 01:38:33,208
and witnessed a bizarre standoff
between the police...

1288
01:38:33,333 --> 01:38:36,708
and the murder suspect, Yolanda,
who was in a car.

1289
01:38:36,833 --> 01:38:41,458
She held for ten hours
a gun pressed to her head.

1290
01:38:41,583 --> 01:38:46,375
My father said, 'There's someone
on the phone wanting to talk to you.

1291
01:38:46,500 --> 01:38:51,583
I don't want to scare you, but I think
that something happened to Selena.

1292
01:38:54,041 --> 01:38:59,625
I went upstairs. That's where my uncles sat...

1293
01:38:59,750 --> 01:39:04,791
and my aunt, and everyone was crying.
I walked in, and...

1294
01:39:05,458 --> 01:39:08,625
My mothers left
hung her head and cried.

1295
01:39:10,500 --> 01:39:12,958
I asked, "Where's Selena?"

1296
01:39:13,458 --> 01:39:15,875
My father said, "She's been shot."

1297
01:39:16,625 --> 01:39:18,708
I said, 'Is she okay?'

1298
01:39:20,166 --> 01:39:24,291
He said, 'I don't think so, son.
I don't think so.'

1299
01:39:24,416 --> 01:39:26,708
A famous singer has been shot...

1300
01:39:26,833 --> 01:39:28,625
I went to the hospital.

1301
01:39:29,666 --> 01:39:31,791
They took me to a room...

1302
01:39:32,625 --> 01:39:35,083
and her family was there.

1303
01:39:36,416 --> 01:39:42,208
And when I saw Marcy...

1304
01:39:42,333 --> 01:39:46,041
and what condition she was in,
then I knew...

1305
01:39:47,416 --> 01:39:50,833
Then I knew.
Then it dawned on me.

1306
01:39:54,291 --> 01:39:56,583
I can still see how Chris cried.

1307
01:39:59,500 --> 01:40:02,625
Behind the door. The door had a window.

1308
01:40:02,750 --> 01:40:05,750
Poor man, we just sat there.
Crying and crying.

1309
01:40:06,666 --> 01:40:08,066
Oh well.

1310
01:40:14,541 --> 01:40:16,916
My daughter Selena is...

1311
01:40:19,208 --> 01:40:20,608
has been killed...

1312
01:40:21,291 --> 01:40:27,125
by a dissatisfied employee.
She was the president of the...

1313
01:40:27,250 --> 01:40:29,958
She started as president of the fan club.

1314
01:40:30,666 --> 01:40:36,750
And then she was hired
as Selena's employee...

1315
01:40:37,375 --> 01:40:38,833
in its stores.

1316
01:40:39,333 --> 01:40:43,375
And something wasn't going quite smoothly
with the fan club.

1317
01:40:44,750 --> 01:40:46,150
And...

1318
01:40:47,166 --> 01:40:48,566
then she...

1319
01:40:49,166 --> 01:40:50,566
Selena murdered.

1320
01:40:51,583 --> 01:40:53,583
I don't know what to say.

1321
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:13,166
The sky was gloomy,
but not as somber as the mourning today.

1322
01:41:13,291 --> 01:41:18,000
Hundreds of people laid
white roses on Selena's coffin.

1323
01:41:18,125 --> 01:41:21,250
Selena Quintanilla Pérez's fans
came together...

1324
01:41:21,375 --> 01:41:24,166
for their rising star
to see one last time.

1325
01:41:24,291 --> 01:41:27,875
Selena Quintanilla late
a major music project behind...

1326
01:41:28,000 --> 01:41:30,000
that will be long remembered.

1327
01:41:30,125 --> 01:41:33,291
But she leaves a big void
in the Tejano world.

1328
01:41:33,416 --> 01:41:38,291
She had already won a Grammy Award,
and would enter the American mainstream.

1329
01:41:38,416 --> 01:41:43,416
Then disaster struck.
Music fans everywhere are mourning Selena.

1330
01:41:43,541 --> 01:41:46,791
I can't believe she's dead.
I'm here to...

1331
01:41:48,208 --> 01:41:50,708
To convince myself.

1332
01:41:51,708 --> 01:41:56,583
When I look back, I see
in the photos how many people were there.

1333
01:41:56,708 --> 01:42:00,000
I don't remember that anymore.

1334
01:42:00,125 --> 01:42:04,583
I remember being there
and that I felt so lost.

1335
01:42:05,291 --> 01:42:08,166
And so empty.

1336
01:42:31,875 --> 01:42:36,416
Death is something very painful.
Especially if it's your child.

1337
01:42:39,708 --> 01:42:42,541
You just get it
if it happened to you.

1338
01:42:45,916 --> 01:42:48,604
You understand that it hurts, but not...

1339
01:42:49,541 --> 01:42:52,208
how deep that feeling reaches.

1340
01:42:52,333 --> 01:42:55,708
And sometimes...

1341
01:42:57,041 --> 01:42:58,666
it comes in suddenly.

1342
01:43:05,208 --> 01:43:07,041
But it is what it is.

1343
01:43:08,041 --> 01:43:09,666
There's nothing to be done about it.

1344
01:43:10,666 --> 01:43:12,479
Do you remember this song?

1345
01:43:57,250 --> 01:43:58,650
As a mother...

1346
01:43:59,958 --> 01:44:01,625
a child loses...

1347
01:44:02,541 --> 01:44:04,416
that is very difficult.

1348
01:44:06,625 --> 01:44:08,750
It's barely manageable.

1349
01:44:09,833 --> 01:44:11,583
I struggle with it every day.

1350
01:44:43,958 --> 01:44:46,958
SELENA MUSEUM

1351
01:45:10,916 --> 01:45:16,958
It does help
that so many people love her...

1352
01:45:17,583 --> 01:45:18,983
even today.

1353
01:45:22,875 --> 01:45:26,875
She was murdered, but because of her music
we keep her alive.

1354
01:45:28,458 --> 01:45:30,375
Lots of new fans...

1355
01:45:30,500 --> 01:45:34,666
Little kids have become fans, and...

1356
01:45:34,791 --> 01:45:36,191
She lives on.

1357
01:45:39,333 --> 01:45:41,708
She's everywhere.

1358
01:45:42,750 --> 01:45:46,375
Everywhere, and that's beautiful.
It's great that she is remembered.

1359
01:45:46,500 --> 01:45:48,958
But sometimes it's a bit overwhelming.

1360
01:45:52,625 --> 01:45:57,833
It was challenging to get the reins
to be acquired from Q Productions.

1361
01:45:58,791 --> 01:46:03,208
Every time I ask myself:
would my sister like this?

1362
01:46:04,500 --> 01:46:06,375
Would she approve of this?

1363
01:46:07,666 --> 01:46:09,916
How do we do this for her?

1364
01:46:19,500 --> 01:46:21,041
If only you were here.

1365
01:46:22,500 --> 01:46:24,041
If only you had seen it.

1366
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:27,400
We miss you.

1367
01:46:43,583 --> 01:46:46,416
A CD that Selena
just before her death...

1368
01:46:46,541 --> 01:46:48,458
breaks sales records.

1369
01:46:48,583 --> 01:46:53,458
When I hear 'Dreaming Of You',
I think: She succeeded.

1370
01:47:01,958 --> 01:47:04,750
That's the number
that I can't listen.

1371
01:47:04,875 --> 01:47:08,583
The only number. That song, that...

1372
01:47:08,708 --> 01:47:11,583
When I hear that piano piece,
I'm having a bad day.

1373
01:47:14,916 --> 01:47:17,375
I miss her very much.

1374
01:47:19,083 --> 01:47:26,083
But today
I am proud of what she stands for...

1375
01:47:26,958 --> 01:47:32,750
and the small role
that I can play in that story.

1376
01:47:33,833 --> 01:47:36,916
I think that applies to all of us.

1377
01:47:38,208 --> 01:47:41,750
My mother said to me
that there is beauty...

1378
01:47:41,875 --> 01:47:45,250
in all the ugly that happened.

1379
01:47:46,041 --> 01:47:50,875
It took a very long time
before I understood that.

1380
01:47:52,208 --> 01:47:57,000
But I understand now
what Selena means to people.

1381
01:48:00,875 --> 01:48:03,541
What kind of culture she represents.

1382
01:48:04,958 --> 01:48:06,458
And it is beautiful.

1383
01:48:09,625 --> 01:48:11,541
Selena is for the Latinos...

1384
01:48:11,666 --> 01:48:15,958
someone who offered hope
to the Mexican American community.

1385
01:48:18,583 --> 01:48:23,166
There's a little girl somewhere,
or a little boy dreaming...

1386
01:48:23,291 --> 01:48:25,979
That's what the songs are for.
They are for you.

1387
01:48:26,958 --> 01:48:32,333
For whom she sings. For those who dance to it.
For those who are happy or sad.

1388
01:48:33,458 --> 01:48:35,000
It's their music.

1389
01:48:41,541 --> 01:48:44,583
Because we are here
not really feeling connected...

1390
01:48:44,708 --> 01:48:47,041
with our Mexican side,
help her songs...

1391
01:48:47,166 --> 01:48:49,416
to feel connected
with my roots.

1392
01:48:49,541 --> 01:48:51,583
She felt like part of my family.

1393
01:48:51,708 --> 01:48:54,083
Selena was one of my role models.

1394
01:48:54,208 --> 01:48:56,375
She was everything I wanted to be.

1395
01:48:56,500 --> 01:49:00,541
She hit first
everyone's soul at the same time.

1396
01:49:00,666 --> 01:49:05,625
The Puerto Rican community,
the Mexican, the Chicano community...

1397
01:49:05,750 --> 01:49:07,333
Thanks to Selena.

1398
01:49:07,458 --> 01:49:11,833
She still opens doors
for the Latino community.

1399
01:49:13,625 --> 01:49:14,791
You turn on the radio...

1400
01:49:14,916 --> 01:49:18,875
and her music becomes
Still running years later.

1401
01:49:19,458 --> 01:49:24,041
And the public hasn't let her go.
They love Selena.

1402
01:49:24,166 --> 01:49:28,583
Selena is the Tejano queen.
It makes sense that she's at the top...

1403
01:49:28,708 --> 01:49:32,166
from Billboard's list
of the best Latin artists ever.

1404
01:49:32,291 --> 01:49:35,958
She was number one among women.

1405
01:49:36,083 --> 01:49:38,041
She leaves behind beloved music...

1406
01:49:38,166 --> 01:49:41,250
and cleared the way
for new Tejano artists.

1407
01:49:41,375 --> 01:49:44,791
They will never forget
what she contributed to the industry...

1408
01:49:44,916 --> 01:49:45,958
and their careers.

1409
01:49:46,083 --> 01:49:47,875
We love you, Selena.

1410
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:52,875
With this event, which pays tribute to Selena.

1411
01:49:56,958 --> 01:49:58,358
I feel...

1412
01:49:58,958 --> 01:50:01,125
comfort in a way.

1413
01:50:04,041 --> 01:50:05,441
It helps me.

1414
01:50:08,791 --> 01:50:11,791
That people show so much love...

1415
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:15,400
for her...

1416
01:50:16,083 --> 01:50:17,483
even today.

1417
01:50:30,875 --> 01:50:33,500
And I...

1418
01:50:38,750 --> 01:50:40,833
I'm very proud of her.

1419
01:50:43,125 --> 01:50:49,750
How do you want to be remembered? And how long
can we enjoy Selena's music?

1420
01:50:49,875 --> 01:50:53,750
I would like it
keep doing it for the rest of my life...

1421
01:50:53,875 --> 01:50:56,458
but I'm going to die eventually, right?

1422
01:50:56,583 --> 01:50:59,416
But I believe that...

1423
01:50:59,916 --> 01:51:01,791
It depends on the audience.

1424
01:51:01,916 --> 01:51:05,875
How long I stay here is up to them.

1425
01:51:06,375 --> 01:51:08,166
As long as they want me.

1426
01:51:11,416 --> 01:51:12,816
Sing that first one.
- Okay.

1427
01:51:55,166 --> 01:51:56,566
We're not going to win.

1428
01:52:04,791 --> 01:52:07,125
I'm leaving today

1429
01:52:10,166 --> 01:52:12,500
Back to you later tonight...

1430
01:52:14,958 --> 01:52:19,791
This is Selena y Los Dinos.
We are now going to see the new video, here on...

1431
01:52:21,750 --> 01:52:23,750
Once again.
- We say 'y Los Dinos'.

1432
01:52:23,875 --> 01:52:25,833
This is Selena...
- Y Los Dinos.

1433
01:52:25,958 --> 01:52:28,958
And now we go
watch the new video, on...

1434
01:56:12,000 --> 01:56:16,791
Translation: Stella Brüggen


