Kacey Musgraves ascended the star-shaped stage at NRG Stadium, where the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo convenes every year. Bathed in purple light, the East Texas–bred country musician began a song her audience likely wasn’t expecting: a twangy take on Selena’s smash hit “Como La Flor.” Watching the performance on YouTube, the viewer can barely distinguish Musgraves’s voice from those of thousands of ebullient fans scream-singing along to the chorus, “Ah-ah-ay, ¡cómo me duele!”Musgraves’s homage, on February 25, 2019, held a bittersweet significance: almost exactly twenty-four years earlier—on February 26, 1995—Selena had performed at the Rodeo in what would be her last televised concert before her death a month later. Famously, Selena had kicked off her sold-out Astrodome show with a genre move that was…The post Selena at 50: Celebrating the Life, Art, and Influence of a Tejano Legend appeared first on Texas Monthly.