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20 Years Ago, Biopic Helped Give Pop Star Selena Life Beyond Her Tragic Death

In the 1990s, Tejano music singer Selena Quintanilla Perez made a rare crossover to mainstream American audiences. The movie Selena debuted two years after her murder.
Jennifer Lopez plays singer Selena Quintanilla Perez in the 1997 film <em>Selena</em>.

The biopic Selena tells the story of Mexican-American pop star Selena Quintanilla Perez, a Tejano music singer who made a rare crossover to mainstream American audiences. The movie debuted 20 years ago Tuesday, two years after the singer was killed by the former president of her.

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