Yet, for the past 25 years, her fans have been questioning her family’s aggressive attempts at controlling her legacy. Selena became a crossover star after her death, and her legend only continues to grow thanks to the fans and a myth that is still carefully cultivated by her family. All these decades later, fans still put her photos up on their Día De Muertos ofrendas and dress up in her most famous outfits on the anniversary of her death. In her home state of Texas, they painted large murals of her, erected a statue, named a park in her honor and made her Corpus Christi music studio into a museum. When Dreaming of You, her first English-language album, was released posthumously that summer, it sold over 175,000 copies in a single day and eventually over 3 million copies. For some it was like a close relative had been assassinated and an untouchable, living religious diva was extinguished before she could perform her miracles. After the Queen of Tejano music was murdered on March 31st, 1995 - shot once in the back by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar - her Mexican American fans mourned her. The subculture of Selena Quintanilla Pérez super-fandom, or Selenidad, was born out of grief.
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