The daddy of the late Selena Quintanilla — the "Queen of Tejano" — says a brand new album will come out, nearly three a long time after her loss of life. Abraham Quintanilla stated in an interview with Latin Groove Information that the album set to be launched subsequent month comprises 13 songs and A.B. Quintanilla, Selena's brother, labored on it.
"Selena's been gone 26 years now," he stated final week. "It is superb how briskly time flies... What amazes me, and Suzette, my household, A.B., is that 26 years later and the general public nonetheless remembers Selena. They have not let go of her. They're ready for a undertaking like this to return out, and I do know will probably be properly acquired by the general public."
Quintanilla stated there is a "distinctive" aspect of the album: Recordings of Selena when she was 13 years previous had been digitally up to date to sound as if she was 23 years previous — the age Selena was earlier than she was killed in 1995.
"My son labored on Selena's voice with the computer systems and for those who take heed to it, she sounds on this recordings like she did proper earlier than she handed away," he stated.
The one holdup is the paintings that shall be paired with the album, based on Quintanilla. Suzette Quintanilla, Selena's sister, can have a job in that a part of the undertaking, he stated.
CBS Information reached out to Warner Music Group for remark, however didn't instantly hear again.
March 31 marks the twenty seventh anniversary of Selena's loss of life. She received the very best Mexican-American album Grammy for "Stay" and had a number of U.S. hits, and he or she was going to cross over the English-language pop market earlier than she was murdered by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her fan membership. Saldivar is serving a life sentence.
Nonetheless, Selena stays widespread in the present day and her music continues to resonate all through North and South America. She has greater than 6 million listeners every month on Spotify and her rise to fame was the topic of a Netflix sequence launched in 2020.