{"id":2198079,"date":"2025-12-13T22:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2198079"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:54:33","slug":"abraham-quintanilla-jr-father-of-music-icon-selena-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/abraham-quintanilla-jr-father-of-music-icon-selena-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Quintanilla Jr., father of music icon Selena, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TEXAS \u2014 Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the father of the late Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla, has died.<\/p>\n<p>His son, A.B. Quintanilla III, made the announcement about his father&#8217;s death on social media Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DSNPFX8ETrD\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Quintanilla Jr., who\u00a0served as Selena&#8217;s manager, has strived to keep his daughter&#8217;s legacy alive \u2013\u2013 after she was killed in a 1995 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>He also worked as a producer for multiple docu-series and movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One could often see\u00a0Quintanilla Jr. at the Selena Museum in Corpus Christi, talking to guests about her life and his own journey in the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>He was 86 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumlocalnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS \u2014 Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the father of the late Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla, has died. His son, A.B. Quintanilla III, made the announcement about his father&#8217;s death on social media Saturday morning. Quintanilla Jr., who\u00a0served as Selena&#8217;s manager, has strived to keep his daughter&#8217;s legacy alive \u2013\u2013 after she was killed in a 1995 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2198080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22793,22800,379160,22811,22801,22691,21741,21738,26783,22428,21737],"class_list":["post-2198079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-latest-entertainment-stories","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-california","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-texas","tag-top-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Abraham-Quintanilla-Jr-father-of-music-icon-Selena-dies.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198081,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198079\/revisions\/2198081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}