My Working Relationship With Selena Quintanilla

I used to work at Telemundo and had the privilege of videotaping Selena and her band about 5 or 6 times in the 90’s. Her brother AB, her sister Suzette, and her group, Los Dinos, were a pleasure to work with.  They were very fun, easy going, and humble people.

Selena and her family, the Quintanillas, were Jehovah Witnesses. Selena was a “pizzaholic”. After videotaping we would buy lots of pizza for the band.  At her last occasion in Telemundo, she sprinted up to the control room after the recording, where I was, to pig out on pizza.  I was the only one there with her. God told me to approach and talk to her. The fear of man gripped me; or better to say, it was the fear of talking to an international star. I disobeyed God, and chose not to. 

One month later, Yolanda Saldivar murdered Selena at a Holiday Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas. That tragic lesson helped to free me from the fear or man and realized that when God tells you to do something, you MUST do it.

As for Selena, in the midst of international stardom, she was tragically taken away from us. Our producer, who was a personal friend of hers, was devastated by the incident.  We spent the following week working overtime to produce shows of the authentic eerie police audio tapes from the red truck where Yolanda Saldivar barricaded herself. A police mediator by the name of Larry coaxed her to turn herself in. Yolanda blamed a lot of her actions on those tapes to Selena’s father, Abraham Quintanilla.  Human nature is sadly so funny.

We don’t know the day or the hour of our departure from this earth.

Jesus says, today is the day of salvation. Don’t mess around with your eternity.  He is the only way to eternal life.

 Remember, Selena Quintanilla Perez.

2 Corinthians 6:2  (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)