Q. What was Selena Quintanilla-Perez's family life like?
A. growing up her family lost everything when she was 9. Her father's restaurant went out of business, and the family had to move in with relatives and even went onto food stamps and all that. but at the same time, her family was always amazingly close. Relatives have said how much Selena confided in her father and mother, and how close they were. Suzette said the 4 year age difference didn't affect them either, and that they were extremely close and had a wonderful relationship and told each other everything. Her and A.B. were close too. Her married life was good too. The day before she died she told her mom and sister her and Chris were planning to start a family, and she had a doctors appoitment the following tuesday to get a birth control device removed. She had a tag in her bathroom that read "Selena and Chris Forever" and the couple were in the process of buying 10 acres and designing a dream house. so yeah. the Quintanillas were a tight crew and remain so today.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Did Selena Quintanilla-Perez have siblings? Were they close?
A. Suzette, 4 years older and A.B. 8 years older. yes, they were extremely close. Suzette says her most missed memories of Selena were the times on the road where her and Selena would go in Suzette's bunk and they would talk about having children, their marriages, dreams, etc. Selena also called Suzette her best friend in an interview. And her and A.B. were close too, she confided in him and loved him a lot. He has tons of tattoos of her now and Suzette continued Selena's boutiques. They fought of course like all siblings, but they were super close.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Did Selena Quintanilla-Perez have a favorite or memorable family story?
A. Selena loved telling storys on the dreams she had . For example :she had Dreams on how she would be a singer as a teenager.
Armando (Apr 16, 2009)
Q. Who was Selena Quintanilla-Perez's childhood best friend?
Q. What Selena Quintanilla-Perez's favorite book or TV show?
Q. Did Selena Quintanilla-Perez compete with any groups or sports teams?
Q. What did Selena Quintanilla-Perez want to be when he/she grew up?
A. She was always singing since the age of 9, and realized it was something she loved around the age of 15. But she always loved fashion and wanted to be a fashion designer. She also loved business and wanted to own her own businesses. And she ended up doing it all.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. What scared Selena Quintanilla-Perez as a child?
A. well when she sang she was always afraid (up through her adult career too) that no one would come to watch her perform. I'm sure she was scared for her family too, since they were on food stamps and so broke during her childhood.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. How did people see Selena Quintanilla-Perez – class clown, bookworm, social butterfly?
A. She had friends and a best friend, but not that many. she said she had a complex about people talking about her because she had this alergic reaction to a lot of things with her legs (only as a child) and she had a ton of hammy down clothes. she says they made fun of it but i mean, don't get me wrong, she had friends. she was into sports and loved football and such. she only went to public school through 8th grade, graduating from a correspondence school for high school. and she also said she was smart, As and Bs and in advanced classes.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. What is a funny childhood memory you have of Selena Quintanilla-Perez?
Q. What was Selena Quintanilla-Perez's favorite subject? Least favorite?
A. She said in 1994 her favorite subjects in school were English and Math.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Describe Selena Quintanilla-Perez's high school experience?
A. She just did correspondence classes from the American School, so she didn't really have an experience. That's one reason why her family members were always her best friends.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. What was Selena Quintanilla-Perez's social group like?
Q. Who was Selena Quintanilla-Perez's favorite teacher?
Q. What did Selena Quintanilla-Perez do after high school – college, start his/her career?
A. She graduated from high school at 18, and just continued on with her singing career. In 1994 she started taking correspondence classes from a college in California where she was studying to get a business degree. She created her own fashion line, had 3 boutiques (including the one she was just starting up in Mexico), and a week after she died her perfume line was finished.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. How did Selena Quintanilla-Perez change through his/her school years?
Q. Where did Selena Quintanilla-Perez go to school?
Q. What was Selena Quintanilla-Perez's first job? Did he/she like it?
A. She sang since the age of 9. Other than singing, her first thing was opening her boutique in Corpus Christi and the fashion line. And she loved both of those careers.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. What did Selena Quintanilla-Perez dream of doing with his/her life?
Q. If Selena Quintanilla-Perez could have any job, what do you think he/she could have done?
A. She said she loved singing a ton and couldn't imagine not doing that. But besides that, the fashion career would have been the other job. So the jobs she was doing was what she could have done.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
A. she was a very gifted singer when she was little so i think that she would still be a singer her hole life because she might love sing so much that she would stay a singer forever.also she loves her family somuch that she would'nt forget them most inportantly you should forget selsena because she is a very sincer person!!
CELISA (Oct 13, 2008)
Q. What do you think would have been a good/alternative job for Selena Quintanilla-Perez?
A. well she already did it anyways on the side, but if she wasn't a singer she would have loved to be a full time fashion designer. She also loved business, and enjoyed working at her boutiques and making her perfume line. so something like that. She was also great with children and loved helping out the community, so she could have done something in that field too if she had to.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Did Selena Quintanilla-Perez have a philosophy on life? Something he/she always said?
A. yeah. "The impossible is always possible" is something she always said. she also said, in different versions and forms, stuff about finishing school, staying away from drugs and alcohol, and remaining chaste.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. What were Selena Quintanilla-Perez's religious or spiritual beliefs?
A. Before her death, she had been studying the Bible. Her father is a Jehovas Witness, but her husband is Christian (or Catholic). Her father confirmed that she had begun to study the Bible shortly before her death, and the Bible teacher was a member of the Jehovas Whintess faith. Her father also said she was concerned that she might have to change her stage appearence to embrace the faith completely, but she died before she had the chance. Her dad adds that she believed in God and Jesus, and her husband talks about her being up in Heaven.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Was Selena Quintanilla-Perez athletic? Attend sports games?
A. As a kid she loved football and loved to play sports with the boys. So I would assume she still carried that same love into her adult life. I know she sang at a stay in school jamberee at a San Antonio Spurs game like 2 weeks before her death, but I don't know how much of the game she watched. She understood sports for sure and played as a kid, but I don't think she really had any favorite teams. her husband Chris was sometimes photographed wearing an Oakland Raiders hat though.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Did Selena Quintanilla-Perez enjoy the arts – painting, writing, or music?
A. She loved them. She loved to sing of course, and loved listening to music. She drew her fashion designs, and Chris says it was something she lived for. She also loved acting, and wanted to try acting later on in her career and started a little of acting with a Mexican soap opera. She also loved to dance and had a little dance studio in Q Productions.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Was Selena Quintanilla-Perez an avid collector? Any quirky hobbies?
A. As an adult she had an extensive faberge egg collection. she had over 500 eggs in her living room (they are now at the Selena Museum). Her family supposedly connects this collection to the fact that she was born on Easter Sunday (April 16, 1971). According to Suzette, every egg tells a story. Her husband Chris bought her an egg one week before she died and Selena purchased one from California.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Describe the perfect day for Selena Quintanilla-Perez?
Q. Was Selena Quintanilla-Perez a romantic?
A. according to her husband Chris, she was. He said in an interview, "No, she was very romantic and she craved that too from me. She wanted to know all the time, feel all the time that it (our relationship) was special, and I did that as much as I could and I made her feel that way. But she did it all the time to me, all the time. I was always happy with her." He later said their relationship was really strong, she wrote many love letters to her husband, and had tags in her bathroom she put up which read "Selena and Chris Forever" and "I love you, Chris."
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. What were some of Selena Quintanilla-Perez's favorite foods?
A. she loved double peperoni thin crusted pizza from pizza hut. She also loved pollo con arroz (chicken with rice), sausages straight from the can, and soda (like coke). Oh and doritos, and tortilla chips. She loved Pizza Hut, mexican food restaurants, and the Olive Garden. She liked tacos from jack in the box, waterburgers, and McDondalds.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. What were Selena Quintanilla-Perez's favorite travel destinations?
A. She liked to travel in general. She and Chris once vacationed to Jamaica, and the couple loved the beach. She loved going to Florida for concerts too.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Did Selena Quintanilla-Perez visit museums when traveling? Try the cuisine?
Q. Where did Selena Quintanilla-Perez dream of traveling?
A. She was excited about going to Europe for touring for the English album and also Asia. And since the English album was such a big dream, I'm sure the idea of touring there for it was a dream of hers.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. Did Selena Quintanilla-Perez feel at home in another country?
A. She said she felt most at home in Corpus Christi, Texas because she could go around the city and people treated her like a normal person. She could go to the mall and people wouldn't freak. She loved the fans and loved traveling to other cities, but when she was in Corpus, she was "home." She also loved Monterrey, and was opening a boutique there, but she was extremely famous there and couldn't be very private there either. Although she was very proud of being Mexican and loved her roots and loved Mexico as well. She never planned on moving from Corpus Christi, Texas.
natalie (May 11, 2008)
Q. In what other country could you imagine Selena Quintanilla-Perez living?
