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- Selena once went bungee jumping on a dare but never wanted to do it again!
- Selena and Chris owned a Ninja Kawasaki 250 cc motorcycle!
- Selena's main wishes were to own a farm and have 5 children.
- Birthday: April 16, 1971
- Hospital: Freeport Community Hospital
- Town: Brazosport, TX
- Parents: Abraham II and Marcella Samora Quintanilla
- were they met: Ft. Lewis, Wash. state
- parent's marraige date: June 8, 1963
- Selena weighed at birth: 5 lbs and 10 1/2 ozs
- Sibs. Abraham (AB) III born on Dec.13, 1963, Suzette Michelle was born June 29th, 1967.
- They thought Selena was going to be a boy so they picked the name Marc Antony out.
- Name came from Marcella's roommate who had a boy instead of a planned girl!
- Selena's name means "Selenite" which means 'moon stone'
- her nickname was Preciosa
- Selena did not have a middle name
- her height grown up 5'6"
- Husband: Chris Perez
- year met: 1988
- they confessed their love at a Pizza Hut parking lot.
- they got married on April 2, 1992 at Nueces County Court
- Justice of the peace Beb Garza, Jr. married them after Judge Joaquin Villarreal III waived the 72-hr. waiting period.
- She wore jeans and a coca cola jacket to her wedding
- First gold record:"Ven Conmigo"
- First hit single:" Dame Un Beso" in 1986
- A performer mistakenly announced the winner of the '94 Tejano Crossover Award (which Selena's name was engraved and which
she, not Shelly Lares won)to Shelly Lares. Selena burst into tears and refused the award she won, after it was corrected-she
felt bad for Shelly Lares.
- 95 Houston Astrodome concert had 61,041 people attending.
- place and date of Selena's last concert: March 11, 1995 in Chicago, Illinois
- She played a part in Don Juan DeMarco as a Mariachi singer.
- her favorite foods included: Thin pepporoni pizza, tortilla chips, refried frijoles, pollo con arroz
- dessert-chocolete icecream
- first car black BMW which was later stolen and dumped in the ocean.
- last car is the red Porshe
- Selena once paid a tab for a lady dining alone at the Olive Garden-not letting her know who paid it!
- She always had time for her fans, never refusing an autograph.
- she didn't like talking about politics or religion.
- she collected faberge eggs
- She had five dogs: a husky, mini doberman, 2 mastiffs and a pomeranian.
- she loved animals
- she liked contempo. furniture (even having a aquarium backboard in her bedroom)-unlike her sister who deco was Southwestern.
- Fave color was purple and black
- loved long stemmed white roses
- Selena and her family lived in the Molina Section of CC.
- best friend in school was Meredith Lynn Cappel
- gift she treasured from Meredith was a stuffed Koala Bear when she was 9 years old.
- Elem.school attended was Oran M. Roberts elem. school
- junior high was West Oso Junior high.
- GED from The American School of Chicago (correspondance school)
- Selena enjoyed tobogganing, parasailing and riding motorcycles.
- there was 52 diamonds on that infamous ring that the "Boutique" gave her...Yolanda pocketed the money gave to her for
the ring and bought it with Selena's credit card.
- total carats on ring 1.5
- it was a 14K white gold egg ring
- had an "S" engraved in its side and costed $3000.
- (getting to the sad facts)Place where Selena was shot was Day's Inn 901 Navagation
- fateful room was 158
- weapon used .38 caliber. it was cut up in many pieces and tossed in the ocean.
- time hag shot our beloved was about 11:47A Friday Mar. 31,1995
- Offical time of death1:05P
- offical cause severed artery and blood loss
- Public viewing was at Bayfront Plaza Convention Center
- 30,000-50,000 filed past her casket
- there were over 8000 white roses placed on her casket
- funeral date April 3, 1995 (the day after her wedding anny.)at Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi
- Burial site Seaside Memorial park
- Tree on her gravesite is a mesquite tree
- Amor Prohibido sold 1700 copies prior to her death
- it sold 12,000 a week after her death.
- she was NOT born on Easter Sunday like all thought!
She was also a Jehovah's Witness.
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