--- description: Jennifer Lopez honored the late singer Selena Quintanilla by portraying her on the silver screen almost two decades ago, and this year she will pay... title: Jennifer Lopez Will Pay Tribute to Selena at Latin Music Awards image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Jennifer Lopez Will Pay Tribute to Selena at Latin Music Awards by [Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 17, 2015 5:43 AM CUT by [Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 17, 2015 5:43 AM CUT Jennifer Lopez honored the late singer Selena Quintanilla by portraying her on the silver screen almost two decades ago, and this year she will pay tribute to her again, this time at the Billboard Latin Music Awards. Telemundo first announced the live tribute on Thursday afternoon on _Al Rojo Vivo,_ then confirmed via Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/Telemundo/status/588799036909494272) “It’s an honor, a great honor to be able to, 20 years after her death, to do a tribute for Selena,” Lopez told _Al Rojo Vivo_. “She continues to be someone that inspires. It’s something that excites me very much. And I want to do something special, very special—just like she was—in this tribute.” The Grammy-winning singer was murdered at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31, 1995\. Yolanda Saldívar, once head of her fan club, was convicted for the murder. Lopez’s role in the 1997 biopic _Selena_, which covered the stars rise to fame and her death, is often considered her breakout role. The Billboard Latin Music Awards will be broadcast live by Telemundo on April 30. [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/16/jennifer-lopez-will-pay-tribute-late-singer-selena-quintanilla-billboard-latin "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3826171/jennifer-lopez-selena-tribute-latin-music-awards-quintanilla-grammy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3826171/jennifer-lopez-selena-tribute-latin-music-awards-quintanilla-grammy/"},"headline":"Jennifer Lopez Will Pay Tribute to Selena at Latin Music Awards","datePublished":"2015-04-17T05:43:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:28:15.048Z","description":"Jennifer Lopez honored the late singer Selena Quintanilla by portraying her on the silver screen almost two decades ago, and this year she will pay...","url":"https://time.com/3826171/jennifer-lopez-selena-tribute-latin-music-awards-quintanilla-grammy/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3826171/jennifer-lopez-selena-tribute-latin-music-awards-quintanilla-grammy/","name":"Jennifer Lopez Will Pay Tribute to Selena at Latin Music Awards"}}]}] ```