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On March 31, 1995, two women entered a ground floor room at a days-in motel near Interstate 35 in an industrial part of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Just before noon, a shot rang out, and one of the women was seen running through the motel courtyard around the pool to the lobby.

She burst in through the front door of the lobby and with a shaking voice pleaded with the

front desk clerk to lock the door.

Collapsing to the floor, she said her final words, Yolanda Saldivar in room 158.

The woman was a Grammy-winning Mexican-American singer who was on the verge of becoming an international superstar.

I'm Kathy Kinsora, and on this episode of History of the 90s, the life and tragic death of a Latina icon whose life was sadly cut short.

We will try to understand why this all-American kid raised in Texas

is still a source of inspiration and hope for the Latinx community.

A woman whose charm, talent, and legend loomed so large

she's only known by one name.

Selena.

It's hard to overstate the impact Selena's death had and still has on those who

adored her.

25 years later, her legacy is as strong or maybe even stronger than ever.

If you weren't a Selena fan before she died, you might have gotten to know her story because of the 1997 movie,

starring an up-and-coming Jennifer Lopez.

But depending where you live, you might not be as familiar with this famous Tejano singer.

Selina Quintanilla grew up in Southeast Texas in a Mexican-American family passionate about music.

Her dad, Abraham, had some regional success in the 60s in his own group

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