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His life Selena quintanilla was truncated at the tender age of 23, when Yolanda saldivar, the president of her fan club and manager of her boutiques, shot her on March 31, 1995, three days before “Queen Tex-Mex” celebrates her third wedding anniversary with Chris Perez.
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Although they came to unite their life in marriage, the singer’s relationship with the guitarist of the family group was not easy at all, especially since the father of the singer from “Como la flor” opposed. Next, we will tell you the true love story of the artist.
HOW DID SELENA AND CHRIS PÉREZ MEET?
The guitarist and composer with Mexican roots Chris Pérez met the singer when he joined the band “Selena y los Dinos”. In 1989, he was contacted by the girl’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 the two were totally different, because while he was an introvert, the young woman who stole his sigh from At first had a very outgoing personality.
As soon as 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 more fluid when the group traveled to Acapulco. Then he confessed his feelings and decided to start a secret affair with the artist’s father.
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SELENA’S FATHER LEARNS ROMANCE
Although they both decided to hide their romance for fear of being separated, Suzette Quintanilla, the sister of Queen Tex-Mex, alerted her father to what was happening. Moreover, he himself had realized about his daughter’s relationship while running “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 I’ve done all those years would go overboard. “Abraham said about Chris to Texas Monthly a few years ago.
Pérez had no choice but to go home, while the performer “Bidi bidi bom bom” reached the stars.
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SELENA IS LOOKING FOR CHRIS
After Chris Pérez was fired from the group, Selena felt that her life was falling apart and did not want to get away from her loved one; so he looked for her in 1992.
He appeared at the door where the guitarist lived and asked to see him. After a dialogue, he told her that she could not live without him, but wanted to be with him, even if his father did not approve of the relationship.
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They decide to run away and get married
Due to the complicated nature of their romance, which was not accepted by the artist’s father, they decided to run away and then get married. “I was thinking, ‘God, we’re doing this. God, what do we do? I DO NOT BELIEVE!’. The next thing I knew, it was over and we were declared husband and wife. “, Said Pérez.
They married in secret in the first days of April 1992. Although Selena wanted a big wedding, they had an express ceremony at the Nueces County Court. 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 to the rest of the Quintanilla family.
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MARRIAGE LIFE
While Selena and Chris Pérez were completely in love, the fact that they worked together and saw each other 24 hours a day made them have some arguments. Fortunately, they were able to cope with these difficulties and talked about having a child.
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 and she divorced in 2008, the year she has not met a partner.
Through his posts on his social networks, Chris made it clear that he never forgot the “Bidi bidi bom bom” singer, whom he continues to love.
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