Thirty years after the pop star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was murdered by Yolanda Saldívar at a hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, Netflix is releasing a documentary about the singer, her band, and their rise to stardom. Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy features home videos, concert footage, interviews with her parents, siblings, and bandmates, and Selena’s voice via archival news video interviews. It does not get into the details of her murder, largely focusing on the history of the band. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]At the time of her death—two weeks shy of her 24th birthday—Selena had won a Grammy Award, played to crowds of 60,000 people, and sold more than 1.5 million records in the U.S. and Mexico, though she’s arguably best known to English-speaking audiences for “Dreaming of You,” released posthumously. As TIME magazine described her appeal, “She was the embodiment of young, smart, hip, Mexican-American youth-wearing midriff-baring bustiers and boasting of a tight-knit family and a down-to-earth personality, a Madonna without the controversy.” “Never in my dreams would I have thought that I would become this big,” she told TIME in an interview before her death. “I am still freaking out.”TIME talked to Selena’s sister Suzette Quintanilla and the film’s director Isabel Castro about favorite memories of the pop star and Selena’s place in music history.On the road with SelenaIn her TIME interview, Selena described her hardscrabble upbringing in Texas. She was born south of Houston, and her family moved to Corpus Christi to live with relatives when her dad Abraham lost his job at Dow Chemical. He threw himself into the band, made up of Selena and her siblings Suzette and A.B. would perform at family weddings. In the doc, A.B. says his father set out to create the Mexican version of the Jackson 5. Selena recorded her first Spanish track at 8-years-old. Suzette tells TIME that some of the best memories of her sister took place offstage. In the film, viewers will be introduced to the family’s tour bus Big Bertha. Watching home videos shot on the dingy bus brought back a flood of memories of eating McDonald’s and lounging with her sister. “Man, I miss those moments so much. Even though it was hella hot in the bus because we didn’t have an AC unit, it was just the vibe. Our van was an extension of our family.”As Abraham added more members to the band, Selena fell in love with the lead guitarist Chris Pérez. “I’m going crazy,” as she describes her love for him in a love letter that Pérez reads on screen. They married in 1992.While touring, she also ran a fashion brand, even convincing her family to dress up in sparkly cow-print suits once. She dreamed of opening a clothing store. “I want to prove I’m intelligent enough to be a business woman as well as an entertainer,” she says in an interview featured in the doc.How Selena became famousSelena y Los Dinos got its big break when it landed a recording contract with giant EMI in 1989. Back then, Tejano music was the fastest-growing segment of the Hispanic recording business, and TIME described her as “far and away the biggest star of the Tejano universe.” She boasted a sponsorship with Coke and a best live Mexican-American album Grammy for Selena Live!. But Selena y Los Dinos shows that the band was sweeping the Tejano Music Awards for years before the Grammy win. As director Castro says, “It’s an interesting reflection of how Latino success is measured because often we’re huge within a specific space, but the general market ignores us. The Grammy was when the record label started to understand how far-reaching their influence was.”Suzette adds, “this is not just a Latin-geared documentary,” noting that Netflix features content in more than 30 languages and is available in more than 190 countries. Castro says Latino music and art is still “siloed” and hopes the documentary will show how “Selena was leading the charge in terms of trying to overcome that…We haven’t come as far as anyone would think.”The documentary ends at the museum for Selena memorabilia in Corpus Christi, Texas. One of the reasons the family agreed to participate in the documentary is because they were noticing an increasing number of young visitors who weren’t alive in the early 1990s, and they hope a film on Netflix can reach this younger fan base. “They took her life, but we’re going to keep her alive through her music,” Selena’s mother Marcella Quintanilla says in the documentary.But it’s Selena herself who gets the last word. The doc features an interview soundbite in which she talks about performing for as long as she can and as long she still has a fan base—a haunting statement given her untimely death: “I would like to do it the rest of my life but I’m going to die…How long I will be up here is up to them.”