Remembering Selena on the 27th anniversary of her murder
SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV)-- On this day on March 31, 1995 "La Reina" of Tejano music Selena Quintanilla-Perez was shot and killed at a Corpus Christi hotel.
She was shot by the president of her fan club in the subclavian artery and later died of her injuries at the CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi- Memorial.
The youngest child of the Quintanilla family, she was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas.
She started her music career as part of Selena y Los Dinos along with two of her older siblings.
Selena has sold 65 million copies worldwide and was named the top-selling Latin artist of the 1990s by Billboard magazine.
She released 5 studio albums, with several going multi-platinum and selling over a million copies in the United States.
