{"id":87410,"date":"2025-12-14T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/87410\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:06:13","slug":"abraham-quintanilla-jr-father-of-music-icon-selena-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/87410\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Quintanilla Jr., father of music icon Selena, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the father of the late Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla, has died. His son,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[26149,20301,16878,2160,132,3267,155,157,156,2777,223,13214,27,2053],"class_list":{"0":"post-87410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","9":"tag-app-for-your-consideration","10":"tag-app-latest-entertainment-stories","11":"tag-app-top-stories","12":"tag-austin","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-corpus-christi","15":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","16":"tag-corpus-christi-news","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87410","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=87410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}