Gomez, Lopez, Adrienne Bailon, Bruno Mars and Camila Cabello are among those who’ve memorably covered Selena at their own shows, while Nicki Minaj lauded the late star’s enviable curves in 2017’s “Regret in Your Tears,” rapping, “I count up the racks like Serena / Plus I got that ass like Selena.”
“It makes me feel good that after so many years people still remember my daughter,” dad Abraham Quintanilla told NBC News in 2015. “But at the same time I would rather that she be here.”
In an audio clip from what’s widely said to be the last interview she gave before she died, included in an online tribute, Selena was asked how she hoped to be remembered after she was gone.
“As, um…not only as an entertainer,” the larger-than-life singer said, “but as a person who cared a lot and I gave the best that I could—and I tried to be the best role model that I possibly could, and the best person I could. I tried to help out.”
On what would’ve been her 54th birthday, check out Selena Quintanilla’s short but momentous life in pictures:
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