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The life of Selena quintanilla was truncated at the tender age of 23, then Yolanda saldivar, president of her fan club and manager of her boutiques, shot her dead on March 31, 1995, three days before the Queen of Tex-Mex celebrated her third wedding anniversary with Chris Perez.
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Although they came to join their lives, the singer’s relationship with the guitarist of the family group was not at all easy, especially as the father of the “Como la flor” interpreter was against it. Then we tell you the true love story of the artist.
HOW WERE SELENA AND CHRIS PÉREZ MEET?
The guitarist and composer with Mexican roots Chris Pérez met the singer when he joined the family band “Selena y los Dinos”. In 1989, he was approached by the young woman’s father and brother to join the group.
According to the musician, in his book “To Selena, With Love” (“To Selena, with love”, in Spanish) the personalities of both were completely different, because while he was introverted, the young woman stole his sigh from the Initial he had a very outgoing personality.
Once they started working together, the mutual attraction was immediate, despite the fact that he had a girlfriend. According to Pérez, the relationship between the two was smoother when the group traveled to Acapulco. Then he confessed his feelings to her and they decided to start a secret affair with the artist’s father.
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SELENA’S FATHER TEACHES ROMANCE
Although they both decided to hide the romance for fear of separation, Suzette Quintanilla, sister of the Queen of Tex-Mex, warned her father about what was happening. Moreover, he had realized it himself of her daughter’s relationship while driving ‘The Big Bertha’. That day he stopped his car and asked him to leave.
‘I saw it as a threat. What if they got married and he kicked her out of the band? All the work we’ve done all these years would go overboard “Abraham said of Chris Texas monthly a few years ago.
Pérez had no choice but to go home while the lead singer of “Bidi bidi bom bom” reached fame.
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SELENA IS LOOKING FOR CHRIS
After Chris Pérez’s dismissal from the group, Selena felt her life was falling apart and didn’t want to end up far from the person she loved; so he looked it up in 1992.
She appeared at the door where the guitarist lived and demanded to see him. After having a dialogue, he told her he couldn’t live without him, but wanted to be by his side, even though his father didn’t approve of the relationship.
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THEY DECIDE TO ESCAPE AND MARRY
Due to the complicated nature of their romance, which was not accepted by the artist’s father, they decided to elope and then get married. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, we’re doing this. My God, what are we doing? OMG!’. The next thing I knew it was over and we were proclaimed husband and wife”, Said Pérez.
They were secretly married in the first days of April 1992. Although Selena wanted a big wedding, they held an express ceremony at Nueces County Courthouse. She was 20 and he was 22.
The media announced the marriage and Abraham Quintanilla had no choice but to accept him as his son-in-law. The couple moved into a house next door to the rest of the Quintanilla family.
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MARRIED LIFE
While Selena and Chris Pérez were totally in love, the fact that they worked together and saw each other 24 hours a day made them fight. Fortunately, they coped with these difficulties and talked about having a baby.
Unfortunately, the singer ceased to exist after the president of her fan club shot her when she was discovered for embezzlement.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO CHRIS PÉREZ AFTER SELENA’S DEATH?
In 2001 Pérez married Vanessa Villanueva, with whom he had two children. The relationship did not work out and she divorced in 2008, the year since she has not known a partner.
Through his publications on his social networks, Chris has made it clear that he has never forgotten the interpreter of “Bidi bidi bom bom,” whom he still loves.
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