American singer Selena rides in a carriage through a efficiency at Houston’s Astrodome on Feb. 26, 1995. The overall performance was her final prior to the 23-12 months-old’s murder the following month.
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American singer Selena rides in a carriage throughout a functionality at Houston’s Astrodome on Feb. 26, 1995. The general performance was her very last ahead of the 23-yr-old’s murder the subsequent thirty day period.
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Get completely ready Selena admirers — a new album will shortly be on the horizon.
Just about three a long time right after her tragic demise, Abraham Quintanilla, the father of the late Selena Quintanilla-Perez, states a new Selena album is established to be introduced someday upcoming month.
In an interview with Latin Groove News, Quintanilla mentioned that the album, which is remaining manufactured by Warner New music, will contain 13 tracks and that Selena’s brother, A.B. Quintanilla, worked on the album.
“What amazes me and Suzette, my family members, A.B., is that 26 yrs later and the community still remembers Selena. They have not permit go of her,” Quintanilla reported in the interview, referring to Selena’s sister, Suzette. “They are waiting for a venture like this to appear out, and I know it will be nicely obtained by the general public.”
The very first tune on the new album is one Selena recorded when she was just 13 yrs previous. Selena’s brother was able to digitally update her voice to seem just as she did before her loss of life in 1995, according to her father.
The recently introduced tracks are all aspect of the catalog belonging to the family’s record enterprise, Q Productions.
“My son worked on Selena’s voice with the computer systems, and if you pay attention to it, she appears on [the] recordings like she did right in advance of she handed absent,” he claimed.
Selena’s sister, Suzette Quintanilla, will also have a part in the new album, as she is encouraging style and design the artwork paired with the album.
NPR achieved out to Warner New music Team with a ask for to comment but did not immediately hear again.
March 31 will mark the 27th anniversary of the Tejano singer’s tragic death at age 23.
Selena, a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, was a Grammy Award-profitable Tejano superstar who was shot and killed by her admirer club’s president, Yolanda Saldivar, at a motel immediately after Selena’s father accused Saldivar of embezzling money from Selena’s admirer club and her Selena And so on. boutiques.
Selena gets a Grammy Award on March 1, 1994.
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Dubbed the Queen of Tejano Songs, Selena gained a Grammy Award for Greatest Mexican-American Album for Live! and was on the verge of crossing above into the English-language market just in advance of her loss of life. Selena bought all-around 18 million records all over the world, getting a person of the bestselling feminine artists in Latin songs, according to Billboard.
She was killed about two weeks prior to her 24th birthday, which would have been April 16, 1995.
Even now to this working day, Selena’s legacy and audio continue on to depart an effects across all generations all over the world.
In 1997, two years just after her dying, Warner Bros. released a blockbuster motion picture about her existence and job that starred Jennifer Lopez as Selena. And in 2020, Netflix unveiled the collection Selena: The Sequence, telling the story of the sacrifices her loved ones manufactured alongside the way to fame.
Selena was honored with a Lifetime Accomplishment Award at the 2021 Grammys along with other artists like Salt-N-Pepa, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Marilyn Horne.