{"id":6180,"date":"2017-05-27T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsincerity.wpengine.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2023-05-19T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:45:01","slug":"never-a-forgotten-heart-selena-quintanilla-perez-was-a-mexican-american-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/never-a-forgotten-heart-selena-quintanilla-perez-was-a-mexican-american-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Never A Forgotten Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

She slayed the world of Tejano music \u2013 a previously male-dominated genre \u2013 and was the first female to win a Grammy in it. Not only that, but Selena was a feminist and philanthropist in her own right.<\/p>\n

She was very active in the Texas school system, advocating for students to finish high school<\/a>, and also worked to support women who were victims of domestic abuse. To her, fame wasn\u2019t about making money, it was about being able to have a voice in matters she truly cared about.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody can be a role model. Anybody can,” Selena said in an interview at Rosedale Park.<\/p>\n

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She brought authenticity to the hybridized Mexican-American experience. Deborah Paredez, author of a book covering Selena’s impact on society, told NBC that \u201c[Selena] drew from pop, Tejano, calypso, Afro-Caribbean, and cumbia music, so she signaled across a lot of cultural identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Selena died at 23, just as her career in America was starting to bloom, her memory continues as a celebration of the vitality that can come from all that is multicultural and wildly kind.<\/p>\n

May this queen live on in the land of bidi bidi bom bom. <\/em><\/p>\n

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