Exclusive | Inside the night Selena was murdered 30 years ago and how her traumatized band found out

Selena, the Queen of Tejano, shared a sweet last moment at her Texas home with two of her band members — keyboardists Joe Ojeda and Ricky Vela — the night before her tragic murder 30 years ago.“I was actually in Corpus Christi with Ricky recording some ideas for her next Spanish record,” Ojeda exclusively told The Post.“And we went to her house to [figure out] a key on her vocal for one of the songs that we were recording.”“And we got to her house, we had some cheesecake, and then she walked us out … just making funny faces at us.

We would be seriously talking to her, and she would make funny faces.She was so fun to be around,” he shared.

“That’s the night before the tragedy happened.”That turned out to be his final memory of Selena Quintanilla.The next day she was fatally shot by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar — who had just been fired days before by the Mexican-American singer for embezzlement — on March 31, 1995.

Saldívar was denied parole on Friday and will not be eligible again until 2030.“I’m grateful she didn’t get parole,” said Ojeda.“I mean, she took an innocent life away from from us, and you know, justice was served.

So I’m grateful she got denied … She’s still where she needs to be.”Selena was just 23, a Grammy-winning sensation and cultural phenomenon in Latin music who was poised to cross over and become the next superstar pop diva in the English market.She was even called the “Mexican Madonna.” “She was on her way to become a really big star,” said Guy Roche, who produced “Dreaming of You,” the hit title track of Selena’s English crossover LP that was posthumously released in July 1995.“Why not make her a superstar [who was] not just Latin? So that was the idea.

But, you know, it was cut short.”Ojeda joined Selena’s band with backup singer Pete Astudillo after their duo the Bad Boyz had opened for her.“When we joined the band, we were performing at weddings, you know, ...