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How famous was Selena...


...before she died? Was she well known throughout the nation/world? I had never heard of her before her death. I remember my mother telling me that Selena had died and I ask, "Who?" I have heard some people say that the only reason she is well known today is because her father and brother have exploited her death in order to make money and use the guise of keeping her memory alive as a way to accomplish this. Is this true? This is not my opinion, I am only stating what I have heard.

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I'm from Houston and many of the kids at my school were big fans. A lot of them attended her final concert at the Astrodome just weeks before she was killed. I was very familiar with her before her death.

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Selena was perfectly positioned to become a star during the
"95-99" Latin Explosion. She probably could have been as big as Shakira.

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Yeah I had never heard of Selena before she was murdered, but given that I'm from Louisville, KY there was really no market for her music here. The vast majority of America doesn't really know much about the Tejano sound. She was likely to be huge during the late 90s Latin explosion.

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I had never heard of her until she was killed. But I haven't really followed pop music much since the 1950s.

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