Selena’s family accused of trying to profit off of posthumous album

Selena Quintanilla Pérez’s legacy lives on as one of many best Tejano singers of all time.

Her household is planning to launch a posthumous album in April 2022, nearly 27 years after her homicide.

Nonetheless, some followers aren’t pleased with the venture and really feel that her household is exploiting the Texas-born starlet — who was shot in 1995 by crazed fan Yolanda Saldívar — for revenue.

Selena’s brother, A.B. Quintanilla, not too long ago shared particulars in regards to the document in an interview with Tino Cochino Radio.

“It’s a loopy idea album,” Quintanilla mentioned on the radio program. “I remixed all her vinyls and simply, with this album, with an EDM world, with arpeggiators and with keyboards, I made her circulate to cumbia. Regular songs that weren't usually recorded in cumbia.”

Cumbia is a musical rhythm and conventional people dance that originated in Colombia within the Nineteen Forties.

Quintanilla went into extra element in regards to the manufacturing facet of the album, revealing that the workforce was capable of digitally alter her voice to make her sound aged. A number of of the tracks have been recorded when she was a teen.

Family of tejano singer Selena who was killed by her former fan club pres. Yolanda Saldivar: mother Marcela Quintanilla (2L), husband Chris Perez (3L) & sister Suzette (2R) laying roses atop casket at her funeral. (Photo by Barbara Laing/Getty Images)
Selena was murdered in March 1995 by Yolanda Saldívar.
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“We have been additionally capable of de-tune her voice to make her sound older than what she was. So, she was 14 or 15, we have been capable of make her sound like she simply stepped out of the sales space at 23 years previous,” he said.

Nonetheless, “by de-tuning her voice a bit bit, it really made her sound deeper, like she sounded earlier than she handed.”

Followers tweeted out their concern in regards to the album, with a number of questioning its authenticity. “There’s actually no different purpose to do that besides $$$,” one individual wrote.

“That is sickening. Abraham Quintanilla ought to let his daughter Relaxation In Peace,” one other requested on Twitter. “How laborious up for money is Abraham?”

One consumer penned, “It’s not genuine.”

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 03: A.B. Quintanilla attends the Madame Tussauds Hollywood's Selena Wax Figure Makes Special Appearance at the Walk of Fame Reception Celebrating Her Legacy on November 3, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for Madame Tussauds Hollywood)
A.B. Quintanilla poses subsequent to a wax determine of Selena at Madame Tussauds Hollywood in 2017.
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Abraham Quintanilla, the daddy and supervisor of Selena, advised Latin Groove Information that the album may have greater than 12 songs produced by her brother.

“When you take heed to it, you understand, she sounds on these recordings like she did proper earlier than she handed away,” Abraham famous in his interview.

“I mentioned proper after she handed away that I used to be going to attempt to maintain her reminiscence alive by way of her music, and we now have accomplished that,” Abraham added. “Twenty-six years later, Selena may be very current in immediately’s music world.”

Selena’s life was dramatized within the 1997 Jennifer Lopez drama “Selena” and the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the identical title.

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