The legendary Queen of Tejano Selena Quintanilla never lived to see her 23th birthday and it's now incredibly been 29 years since she was killed. To think that someone so young accomplished so much in such an incredibly short lifetime is truly inspiring. Her cultural contributions continue to be so relevant and significant that fans young and not-so-young proudly get inked with Selena tattoos as a testament to her enduring appeal.
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It would be easy to say that she was at the peak of her career when she was murdered by the president of her fan club, but who knows how high she would have climbed given the chance. It's possible she was nowhere near the peak of her career and would have continued to blow us all away.
If she was able to do what she did in a life cut short, what could she have accomplished and how much would she have continued to contribute to the world in the years that she was robbed of? We'll never know, so instead we will continue to celebrate her legacy by listening to her music, telling her story and maybe even getting a tattoo in her honor like the ones in this gallery.