That mix of brilliance and normalcy created a special bond between Selena and her fans. Then, in an instant, she drops the mask, smiling and even laughing, reminding the audience they are all watching and enjoying this together - and then she again is in agony, her fist beating her chest, murmuring the final words, “como me duele,” “how it hurts me.” You can see it in a live performance of one of her defining songs, “Como la Flor.” She begins by emphasizing the heartache of the lyric, slowly drawing out the lines about a lover leaving, her face contorted in pain. Selena combined virtuosic skills with a kind of magical ordinariness. Whether she was singing hot R&B, bouncy cumbia, rootsy accordion conjunto music or her own genre-busting fusions, she looked and sounded completely at home. The previous month she had been named best female vocalist at the Tejano Music Awards - an honor she would win for nine of the next 10 years - and if her records focused on the light Spanish-language show-band pop typical of that genre, her live shows demonstrated an uncanny ability to assimilate any style that attracted her. And everything she sang came from her own background and experience.īarely 16 years old, Selena was breaking out as the new queen of the Tejano scene. While not altogether wrong, that interpretation misses an essential fact about Selena’s career: She had been crossing stylistic, linguistic, ethnic and geographical boundaries since she began singing professionally at age 9, constantly expanding both her music and her audiences. A regular theme of these projects is that the young star was struck down while recording her first full English-language album, right on the verge of crossover success. In the quarter century since her death, Selena’s legend has continued to grow, fed by reissues and remixes, numerous books, a film starring Jennifer Lopez and now a bio-series from Netflix, which debuts Friday. Growing up in Houston in the 1990s, everyone knew of Selena, the Tejano star whose death at age 23 in 1995 catapulted her to national fame. Neither sister needed to mention the name of the song’s singer. “This is so unfair!” Solange protested, before answering: “No Me Queda Mas.”

First she asked for her sibling’s favorite Diana Ross film, then a choice some readers might have found more puzzling: “ ‘No Me Queda Mas’ or ‘I Could Fall in Love’”? In 2017 Beyoncé spoke with Solange for Interview magazine, and popped a couple of questions about her sister’s tastes.

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