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Selena Y Los Dinos is Netflix’s upcoming documentary connected the bequest of the Tejano star, but it’s besides the set — fronted by the icon Selena — that revolutionized Latin euphony and 1 of the archetypal planetary acts. At Latin Music Week 2025, fans and league attendees not lone got to spot exclusive clips from the film, slated to premiere Nov. 17, but heard straight from Suzette Quintanilla and the documentary’s manager Isabel Castro.
Moderated by Billboard‘s Jessica Roiz, the Selena Y Los Dinos sheet connected Wednesday (Oct. 22) broke down the value of this caller documentary, the band’s bequest and the household values that fueled the planetary act.
The caller Netflix documentary archetypal premiered successful the Sundance Film Festival, capturing Selena Y Los Dinos’ emergence to stardom. Throughout Selena’s euphony career, 7 of her workplace albums deed No. 1 connected Top Latin Albums, including Amor Prohibido (1994), which reigned for 20 weeks, and Dreaming of You (released posthumously successful 1995), which topped the illustration for 44 weeks. The second acceptable besides made past arsenic the archetypal bilingual medium to debut astatine No. 1 connected the all-genre Billboard 200. In 1993, Selena won a Grammy for the champion Mexican American medium for Selena Live!, becoming the archetypal pistillate Tejano creator to triumph that award.
Below, 5 takeaways from the Selena Y Los Dinos sheet astatine Latin Music Week:
Approaching Isabel Castro for the Project
Suzette Quintanilla: “Four oregon 5 years ago, I wanted to make this documentary to archer our household story, straight from our household to the world, and find idiosyncratic that could bash this. I did a Zoom with Isabel and I instantly knew she was going to beryllium the idiosyncratic to beryllium capable to archer the communicative for us. She’s an astonishing person, she’s Latina and I’m gladsome she’s starring this for us.”
Why Castro Said Yes to Directing
Isabel Castro: “I’m Mexican, I came to the U.S. and to me, Selena was truly the idiosyncratic that taught maine to beryllium arrogant astir having a bicultural community. I recovered solace successful her and the family’s music. It made maine recognize myself. When they reached retired I was like, ‘Everyone halt everything, clasp the phones.’ It was evident this was important to me. It’s been an grant of a lifetime.”
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The Process
Castro: “The household has a vault and erstwhile I opened that doorway and the airy came through. It’s similar a medium-sized retention unit, packed from level to ceiling of bookcases with thousands of VHS tapes, flash drives. The opening of that process was absorbing due to the fact that we were truthful honored but it felt similar a immense consciousness of responsibility. We reviewed it each and erstwhile we digitized it, past came the editing process and it was important that the archive told the story. All of the footage is valuable, but the worldly that moved maine the astir was the worldly that was changeable down the scenes that was mostly changeable by Suzette. What’s successful the movie is arsenic overmuch arsenic we could include.”
How This Will Be Different From Other Selena Films
Castro: “We had conversations astir this, some I and Suzette, and the household wanted this to consciousness similar the astir authentic mentation of [the family’s] communicative and wanted it to beryllium told by the them. We besides wanted it to beryllium told done the archive.”
Quintanilla: “The [1997] movie was sprinkled with Hollywood glitter, but this documentary is the other of that. This is our family, Chris, my mom, my father, A.B., myself, bandmates, telling the satellite our story: We started from that and created this. A batch of radical privation to abstracted Selena from our band, but different elements that made her were our set and family.”
What Fans Will Take Away From Selena Y Los Dinos
Quintanilla: “I privation them to consciousness the vigor and what we were each about. People person a perception, and they’re entitled to their opinion, and however my begetter was. We are a mean household that started a set and became global. Selena is not here, but we are celebrating what we did and created truthful galore years ago. And this documentary reflects the powerfulness of who we are arsenic Latinos, this is simply a planetary motorboat successful 190 coun...
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