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Fans Are Ecstatic That Selena Series Arrives on Netflix in December

"Selena was a superstar when she was alive, but she was made a legend through her death," says a fan, one of the younger generations of Latinos who love the late pop star

Christian Serratos plays Selena Quintanilla Perez in a new Netflix series of the singer's life.
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Selena’s new television show will make its debut just in time for the holidays. Netflix dropped the teaser trailer for “Selena: The Series” Tuesday morning, tweeting, “Every legend begins with a dream.”

It’s a new series about the coming-of-age story of Selena Quintanilla Pérez, the bilingual singer and pop star who broke records but whose life was cut short 25 years ago after she was murdered at 23 by her fan club manager in 1995. The singer will be played by Christian Serratos.

Now, after a quarter of a century later, fans of the Tejano music icon are ecstatic about its release.

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