Practically three many years after the singer Selena was killed, a brand new album that includes recordings by the Grammy Award-winning Tejano music star is anticipated to be launched, her household has introduced.
In a video interview with Latin Groove Information final week, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the singer’s father, described the forthcoming album, anticipated to be out there by subsequent month, as a household effort. It’s going to characteristic 13 songs, with new preparations by her brother A.B., and paintings by her sister, Suzette, Mr. Quintanilla mentioned.
Three songs are new variations of beforehand launched tracks, and a minimum of one tune will characteristic Selena’s upbeat soprano voice, recorded when she was 13 years outdated and digitally modified, Mr. Quintanilla mentioned.
“What’s distinctive about it’s, not solely is the music utterly new preparations, my son labored on Selena’s voice with computer systems and should you hearken to it she sounds on this recording like she did proper earlier than she handed away,” Mr. Quintanilla mentioned. “It sounds unimaginable.”
In an interview final 12 months with Tino Cochino Radio, A.B. mentioned he remixed all of Selena’s vinyls and “detuned her voice,” rendering it deeper and nearer to how she sounded in her 20s.
Additional particulars concerning the album are unavailable, together with how a lot of it options Selena’s voice. A spokesman for Warner Music Group, which Mr. Quintanilla mentioned is releasing the album, didn’t reply to a number of requests for remark.
Joe Bennett, a forensic musicologist and professor at Berklee School of Music, mentioned that digitally ageing a voice was a easy course of that would probably require simply an remoted recording of the singer and the suitable digital software program.
Born Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in Lake Jackson, Texas, on April 16, 1971, the Mexican-American singer grew to become a number one star of Tejano music — a mix of corrido, mariachi and polka music — with hits together with “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,” “Como La Flor” and “Amor Prohibido.” Throughout her abbreviated profession, she dominated the Billboard Latin music rankings.
Earlier than she was fatally shot on March 31, 1995, at age 23 by the president of her fan membership, Selena was aiming for extra mainstream success by recording a crossover album.
Since her demise, Selena’s reputation has grown. Followers proceed to have a good time her music and emulate her signature fashion of crimson lipstick and wispy, curled bangs. Jennifer Lopez portrayed her in a 1997 film, and a Netflix present about Selena’s rise to fame, titled “Selena: The Collection,” was launched final 12 months.
Her household has cultivated the general public’s fascination with the singer, from collaborating on the Netflix present, to releasing an unfinished tune of hers in 2015. Mr. Quintanilla informed Latin Groove Information mentioned that quickly after his daughter’s demise, he dedicated to preserving her reminiscence alive together with her music.
“I feel that we now have carried out that,” he mentioned. “The general public nonetheless remembers Selena. They haven’t let her go, and so they’re ready for a mission like this to come back out and I do know that will probably be effectively obtained by the general public.”
