From In Pure Music and All Songs Considered, I'm Robin Hilton.

It's been more than a quarter century now,

since the Teano singer known as Selena,

was shot and killed by the former head of her fan club

at a hotel in Corpus Christi.

And despite all the time that's passed,

the legacy and outpouring of love for Selena endures.

A lot of her young fans today weren't even born

at the time of her death.

Felix Contreras, host of In Pure's Alt Latino,

sat down with filmmaker Gregory Nava,

who wrote and directed the biopic called Simply Selena,

to talk about why the singer's music and life still resonates.

Here's Gregory Nava.

I was taking a walk and I was trying to decide,

should I do the Selena film or not?

And I met two little girls.

But you have these moments in your life as a filmmaker,

and I think everybody's life,

where it's almost like the cosmos sends you a message, right?

And I met these two little girls.

One was eight years old, one was 10 years old.

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