'Selena: The Series' Shows How Selena Resisted Singing in Spanish - Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Selena: The Series tells the story of Selena’s rise in the music industry.

The Netflix series also shows how learning to embrace the Spanish songs provided Selena with the basis to cross over. .

Selena: The Series creator Moisés Zamora spoke with Showbiz Cheat Sheet by phone about telling the story of Selena and her family on Netflix.

He said he often heard Selena songs at weddings and quinceaneras.

To further capture the crossover appeal of Selena, Zamora made sure Selena: The Series writers included Latinx and African-American writers, and many women.

“We wanted to make sure that we didn’t have any blind spots telling this from a single point of view,” Zamora said.

Zamora said Selena: The Series shows the Quintanillas develop their Mexican side along the way

That was really important and it was also important to the family to make sure that it was authentic, that they were English at home and there was a little Spanish here and Spanish there