--- description: Selena was honored Friday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is where it is located title: Selena Honored With Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbddbb9f7c58ec2b1/6988e4a90a4a22933a9d0972/gettyimages-869972934.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Selena Honored With Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2017 6:20 PM CUT  Singer Selena Quintanilla is honored posthumously with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 3, 2017, in Hollywood, California. Singer Selena Quintanilla is honored posthumously with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 3, 2017, in Hollywood, California.Photography by Tara Ziemba—AFP/Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2017 6:20 PM CUT Selena was honored Friday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Los Angeles officials named Nov. 3 “Selena Day.” Selena’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star is the 2,622nd and is placed right in front of Capitol Records’ building — located on Vine Street north of Hollywood Boulevard — where the singer visited often after signing with EMI Latin, [USA _Today_ reported.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/11/04/selena-honored-star-hollywood-walk-fame-draws-record-crowd/832296001/ "undefined") The ceremony debuting the late singer’s Hollywood star featured Selena’s sister Suzette Quintanilla Arriaga and actress Eva Longoria, according to USA _Today._ Longoria spoke about the path Selena forged for Latinas in entertainment. “Growing up there was no reflection of me on TV or in music and that all changed with Selena y Los Dinos. Selena was a small town girl with a big heart … and that small town was my hometown, Corpus Christi, Texas,” Longoria said at the event, according to the report. [Selena was recently featured as one of Google’s Doodles](http://time.com/4984446/selena-quintanilla-google-doodle/ "undefined") to mark the 28th anniversary of her first studio album. Last year, Madame Tussauds debuted a wax figure of Selena in Hollywood and [MAC Cosmetics](http://time.com/4515723/selena-makeup-collection-launch/ "undefined") released a line inspired by the singer. [Selena was shot and killed](http://time.com/3757914/selena-killed-anniversary/ "undefined") by the former president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, in 1995. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5010432/where-is-selena-quintanilla-star-in-hollywood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5010432/where-is-selena-quintanilla-star-in-hollywood/"},"headline":"Selena Honored With Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame","datePublished":"2017-11-04T18:20:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:07:06.934Z","description":"\"Selena was a small town girl with a big heart\"","url":"https://time.com/5010432/where-is-selena-quintanilla-star-in-hollywood/","keywords":["celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbddbb9f7c58ec2b1/6988e4a90a4a22933a9d0972/gettyimages-869972934.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbddbb9f7c58ec2b1/6988e4a90a4a22933a9d0972/gettyimages-869972934.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-ENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC-HWOF-SELENA","caption":"US-ENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC-HWOF-SELENA","creditText":"Photography by Tara Ziemba—AFP/Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5010432/where-is-selena-quintanilla-star-in-hollywood/","name":"Selena Honored With Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame"}}]}] ```