Los Angeles, 15 Mar A new album by the queen of tex-mex style Selena Quintanilla will probably go on sale next month, 27 years after her tragic death, announced the singer's father, Abraham Quintanilla. The album will have 13 songs recorded by the artist before her death and with new arrangements by her brother A.B. Quintanilla, the singer's father explained in an interview with Latin Groove News. One of the songs was recorded by Selena when she was 13, but her brother digitally updated his voice to make it sound just before her death, Quintanilla explained. He added that Suzette Quintanilla, Selena's sister, has helped design the album cover art Quintanilla emphasized that not only is the music new but that “the arrangements are completely new”, which will give a very modern touch to the music of the singer, who died when she was 23 years old. “And if you listen to it, it sounds on this album as it did just before he died”, in March 1995. On that date Yolanda Saldivar shot Selena Quintanilla in a hotel in Corpus Christi, a Texan town. The Latin music star in the US. The U.S. was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. “Selena has left 26 years ago... What amazes me, Suzette, my family, is that 26 years later the audience still remembers Selena. They didn't let her go. They are waiting for a project,” Quintanilla said in the interview. “I like that this comes out, and I know it will be well received by the public,” he added about the album, which will be released by Warner Music. It is expected that the release of the album, with songs that are part of the Q Productions catalog, will be released on April 16, when the singer would have turned 50 years old. Selena was honored by the Grammy Awards with a career award last year. “I said right after she died that I was going to try to keep her memory alive through her music, and we did. Twenty-six years later, Selena is very present in today's music world,” Quintanilla said. CHIEF amv/ims
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