Selena Quintanilla was once raised a Jehovah's Witness and her family doesn't celebrate the anniversary of her passing. Learn extra about her religion.
The past due Tejano legend, Selena Quintanilla, used to be a large number of issues: a talented singer-songwriter, fashion, actress, type dressmaker, and likewise a Jehovah's Witness.
Distractify lately chatted with Noemi Gonzalez, who is set to play Selena's older sister, Suzette, in Netflix's restricted Selena: The Series. In our exclusive interview, we were given to be informed concerning the "insular" global the "Como la Flor" artist got here from, why the cast used a dialect trainer to get her diction proper, and the way the Queen of Tejano track's Jehovah's Witness background affected her legacy even after her dying.
Musician / Selena's widower Chris Perez, musician / Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla III, Selena's sister Suzette Quintanilla and Selena's dad and mom Marcella Samora and Abraham Quintanilla Jr
The past due Selena used to be raised as a Jehovah's Witness.
Selena's brief life got here to an sudden result in 1995 when the 23-year-old was shot and killed by way of her buddy and former boutique manager Yolanda SaldÃvar. While medical doctors tried to use what the Associated Press calls "heroic" efforts to save lots of her lifestyles, the singer's father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., was once lower than happy with the use of blood transfusions because of his spiritual ideals which oppose such remedies.
Now, 25 years after her untimely passing, her father has expressed blended feelings about the once a year remembrances and celebrations at the anniversary of his daughter's demise. "As Jehovah's Witnesses, we don't celebrate deaths or birthdays, and we don't want people to think we're behind all the festivities," he said, including that he's "of course" glad that folks have in mind her legacy.
"It's crazy," he continued. "It grows every day with events everywhere, but we're not organizing them. Our family never got together every year on the day of her murder, because there's nothing to celebrate, and this year won't be the exception. We remember our daughter every single day. We don't need a special day to remember her."
Noemi Gonzalez
Sharing their Jehovah's Witness religion brought actress Noemi Gonzalez closer to the Quintanilla circle of relatives.
Noemi shared with Distractify solely that the Selena forged got to work with a dialect coach in the making of the series. The trainer helped the actors absolute best the circle of relatives's dialect, which as Noemi defined, is subtle but "unique."
The circle of relatives "were Jehovah's Witness, so they really only stayed with themselves and with the extended Quintanilla family and they traveled a lot," she said. "So this life experience as a family unit was very insular."
Noemi even pointed to one now-famous clip of Selena asking if she proclaims the phrase "guitar" humorous. "And she explains that traveling on the road, she mixed all these different sounds that she was coming across, and that is kind of the family's very unique sound," the actress explained. "It's not extreme by any means but it really informs and shapes the character."
What's more, the truth that Noemi used to be "raised Jehovah's Witness just like the Quintanilla family" brought her much nearer to the folk she used to be portraying.
"In Latino cultures, no one says anything when Walter Mercado [was] doing his session in Primer Impacto, but for my family, being that we were Jehovah's Witness, and because [Selena] was raised Jehovah's Witness, and we knew that at the time, the way that people were with Walter Mercado back in the day, that's how my mom was when Selena would be on the air."
Selena: The Series premieres on Netflix Dec. 4.
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