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Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the begetter of the precocious Tejano euphony prima Selena Quintanilla, has died astatine 84 years old, his household said connected Instagram.
"It's with a dense bosom to fto you guys cognize that my Dad passed distant today…" Quintanilla's son, Abraham Quintanilla III, wrote in the station alongside a photograph of his father.
A origin of decease was not shared.
Quintanilla is survived by his son, his girl Suzette, and his woman Marcella, whom helium wed successful 1963.
The patriarch of the Quintanilla household was a singer, songwriter and grounds shaper who created the set Selena y Los Dinos and managed Selena's vocation earlier she was changeable and killed by Yolanda Saldívar successful 1995. Saldívar remains successful situation connected a beingness condemnation and was recently denied parole.
"While thing tin bring Selena back, this determination reaffirms that justness continues to basal for the beauteous beingness that was taken from america and from millions of fans astir the satellite acold excessively soon," the Quintanilla household and Selena's hubby Chris Perez said successful a connection posted soon aft Saldívar was denied parole.
Chris Perez, A.B. Quintanilla III, Suzette Quintanilla, Marcella Samora and Abraham Quintanilla Jr. be a ceremonial honoring Selena Quintanilla with a prima connected The Hollywood Walk Of Fame connected November 3, 2017.
Photo by Tommaso Boddi/WireImage)
After Selena's death, Quintanilla remained precise involved successful projects that mentioned his youngest daughter. That included posthumous releases and a 1997 biopic starring Jennifer Lopez, which Quintanilla co-produced. In the biopic, Quintanilla was played by Edward James Olmos.
The Quintanilla household besides created a charitable enactment called The Selena Foundation to marque usage of donations they received aft Selena's death.
The household precocious opened up astir Selena's bequest successful a caller Netflix documentary, "Selena Y Los Dinos: A Family's Legacy." The movie was executive-produced by the surviving Quintanilla siblings. It featured never-before-seen footage from Selena's vocation and an interrogation with Marcella, marking the archetypal clip she gave an interrogation astir her daughter's death, according to the Associated Press.
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