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DISGRACELAND

Selena: Tejano, Deception, and the Death of the Madonna of Mexico

DISGRACELAND

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Music, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Selena Quintanilla Pérez ushered in the Golden Age of Tejano music in Texas with a meteoric rise up the charts and into the hearts of her fans. Her fans saw her as more than just a pop star — she was family. Selena was about to take her fame and her family to the world stage when a tangled web of deceit, betrayal, and jealousy would result in her untimely death at 23.

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This episode was originally published on November 10, 2020.

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:10.6

Double Elvis.

0:13.2

Hey, Discos, thanks for joining me for another trip into our vast disgrace land archive of episodes.

0:18.9

This week, we are featuring our story on Selena,

0:22.4

which was originally released back on November 10th, 2020. And before we get into the production

0:28.3

of this episode, I knew Selena was a big deal, but I really had no idea how big of an artist

0:32.4

that she actually was. This was something that was requested from the early days of

0:37.1

disgrace land by listeners.

0:39.6

And like I said, I knew Selena.

0:41.9

I knew who she was, but I didn't really understand what she meant to her fans.

0:47.3

I was also surprised to learn the shocking details behind the betrayal that was at the center of the story of her death.

0:55.0

Selena died when she was just 23 years old.

0:57.0

This is so sad.

0:59.0

And this whole story is sad.

1:01.0

But it's a story that also is a cautionary tale.

1:04.0

And over the past few years, it's become one of the biggest true crime stories from music history.

1:10.0

Check it out. Give me a call at

1:12.0

617-90666-6638. Let me know what you think. All right. Without further ado, here is Selena in

1:19.6

Disgraceland. Discraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The story's The story about Selena are insane.

1:38.3

She was only 10 years old when she began to sing professionally.

1:42.3

At 16, she was crowned female vocalist of the year at the Tejano Music Awards.

1:49.0

She was the first Tejano artist on the Billboard 200 in 1994, and was second only to Janet Jackson when it came to album sales by a female artist.

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