Selena Quintanilla Lost Footage Sad Reminder of Slain Tejano Pop Star (video)
Selena Quintanilla
Lost footage of  Selena Quintanilla  has emerged two decades later after an unmarked tape containing an interview with the Tejano pop star about winning her first Grammy Award was discovered in an old TV camera.
In the 1994 interview  a year before  she  was murdered  an excited and animated  Quintanilla  talks to Tejano USA about winning the award.
“When they first told us that we were nominated  we all freaked out ”  the singer  says in the interview  per People magazine.
 Quintanilla  died in 1995  at just 23  after being shot by the founder of  her  fan club  Yolanda Saldívar  in Corpus Christi  Texas.  Quintanilla  reportedly had confronted  her  about embezzling money from the fan club.
 Saldivar  is serving a life sentence at the Mountain View Facility in Gatesville  Texas and will be eligible for parole in 2025.
The interview itself had slipped into obscurity after  Quintanilla ’s death. The production manager who was responsible for directing the segment with the pop star told Smithsonian staff he had searched high and low for the tape after the singer died.
Lost footage of [TGT]has emerged two decades later after an unmarked tape containing an interview with the Tejano pop star about winning her first Grammy Award was discovered in an old TV camera.
In the 1994 interview  a year before  she  was murdered  an excited and animated  Quintanilla  talks to Tejano USA about winning the award.
“When they first told us that we were nominated  we all freaked out ”  the singer  says in the interview  per People magazine.
 [TGT]died in 1995  at just 23  after being shot by the founder of  [TGT]  fan club  Yolanda Saldívar  in Corpus Christi  Texas.  [TGT]reportedly had confronted  [TGT]  about embezzling money from the fan club.
 Saldivar  is serving a life sentence at the Mountain View Facility in Gatesville  Texas and will be eligible for parole in 2025.
The interview itself had slipped into obscurity after  [TGT]. The production manager who was responsible for directing the segment with the pop star told Smithsonian staff he had searched high and low for the tape after the singer died.