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In the primary a part of Selena: The Series, Chris Pérez crossed paths with Selena Quintanilla and joined her band. They fell in love whereas working collectively, however it all got here crashing down on the finish of the season when her father fired him when he discovered about their relationship. The second a part of the collection, which was launched May 4, continues to discover Chris and Selena’s relationship. Jesse Posey performs Chris within the Netflix collection.
He has been very lively in relation to issues associated to the Queen of Texan music. For occasion, on March 27, 2025, Chris and the Quintanilla household shared a assertion concerning the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denying Yolanda Saldívar, the lady who murdered Selena, eligibility for parole. They acknowledged, “Today, we’re grateful that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has chosen to disclaim parole for Yolanda Saldívar. While nothing can deliver Selena again, this choice reaffirms that justice continues to face for the gorgeous life that was taken from us and from thousands and thousands of followers world wide far too quickly.”
From his marriage to Selena to his life after Selena’s demise, HollywoodLife has 5 key issues you must find out about Chris.
Chris was married to Selena
Chris and Selena’s relationship started in secret. They initially determined to maintain their romance from her father, Abraham, and the remainder of the household. Eventually, their relationship was made public, and Abraham fired him. That didn’t hold Chris and Selena aside. They married in 1992. After that, he was accepted by her household. However, their marriage wasn’t all the time excellent. “We had been married and collectively 24 hours a day, seven days every week. We needed to discover ways to deal with that and that was each of us,” Chris advised CNN in 2012. “It’s not like she introduced up the thought and I used to be combating it as a result of truthfully I used to be proper there along with her.”
He was a member of Selena’s band
Chris and Selena first met in 1989 when he joined the band Selena y Los Dinos as their lead guitarist. He was with the band initially till 1991 when Abraham discovered about their relationship. He rejoined the band after marrying Selena in 1992. He was with the band till Selena’s demise in 1995. Ahead of the primary season’s launch, Chris mirrored on his love for Selena and her band.
“I cherished her music even earlier than I joined the band,” Chris wrote on Instagram. “I used to be intrigued by the truth that her brother had his title on every part as producer. Keyboard participant Ricky Vela was my hero so far as musicianship goes. Her dad ran some superb sound once I went to see them at an occasion in San Antonio. I discovered a lot by taking up their guitar participant Roger Garcia’s elements and doing my greatest to stretch it even additional. They had a woman drummer that laid it DOWN (Suzette actually is a badass). Joe and Pete introduced the ‘further’ and added an entire different dimension PLUS Pete wrote superb lyrics….and so they sounded HEAVY. I’ll eternally respect the band and the individuals concerned in it.”
Chris felt guilt over Selena’s demise
Selena was tragically shot and killed by Yolanda Saldívar at a motel on March 31, 1995, on the age of 23. In his guide, To Selena, With Love, Chris revealed that Yolanda had tried to lure Selena to the motel the day earlier than she was murdered. After her demise, Chris felt responsible that he was unable to guard Selena. “There was lots of that. A whole lot of (guilt) going by my thoughts,” he advised the Houston Chronicle in 2012. “But when one thing occurs like that so shortly, and the way in which it occurred, I believe it’s solely pure for most individuals to really feel the identical approach. The purpose one thing like that occurs is as a result of no person anticipated it to occur. We didn’t suppose this particular person was able to doing what she did.”
Chris has remained shut with Selena’s household within the wake of her demise. He was there when Selena was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017.
Chris remarried
Chris married Venessa Villanueva in 2001. They started relationship in 1998. They have two kids collectively. The couple divorced in 2008.
He has continued his music profession
He shaped the Chris Pérez Band in 1998. The band’s debut studio album, Resurrection, was launched in 1999 and gained the Grammy for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album. The band’s last album, Una Noche Más, was launched in 2000. After that, the band broke up. Chris would be part of Selena’s brother’s band, Kumbia All-Starz in 2005. He went on to type his personal band as soon as once more, the Chris Pérez Project.