{"id":86886,"date":"2025-12-13T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86886\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:44:07","slug":"abraham-quintanilla-jr-father-of-selena-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86886\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Quintanilla Jr., father of Selena, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the father of the Queen of Tejano Music, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/selena\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/selena\/\">Selena Quintanilla<\/a>, died on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. He was 86 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">His passing was announced by his son, A.B. Quintanilla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s with a heavy heart to let you guys know that my Dad passed away today,\u201d the musician posted on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The cause of death  has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>News Roundups<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Catch up on the day&#8217;s news you need to know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Abraham Quintanilla, founder of the band  Los Dinos, served as his daughter\u2019s manager from the beginning of her musical career, which ended abruptly with her murder on March 31, 1995, at the age of 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In the 1997 film Selena starring Jennifer Lopez, which tells the story of the young Tejano star, actor Edward James Olmos portrayed Abraham Quintanilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the father of the Queen of Tejano Music, Selena Quintanilla, died on Saturday, Dec. 13,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,278,4661,17769,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-86886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-pop-music","13":"tag-selena","14":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}