Selena fans, rejoice! Brand new music is coming your way, according to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena's father:
"I own 5 Selena tape masters from pre-EMI times. There's a total of 50 songs. We picked 10 of those songs and we're currently working on refreshing the music. We want to rejuvenate their sound, bring them up-to-date."
The remaining 40 songs will also be released eventually, but for the time being you can expect the new CD to come out early next year.
There are always ethical and artistic issues when an artist's unreleased work is published post-mortem. The music was recorded when Selena was in her mid-teens. It possibly sounds very different from the more mature sound we got to know her by, and she obviously has no artistic input on how these masters are put together. Pick any artist who went before their time (Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Miles Davis, Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur) and then had posthumous releases. There's always the question: Why weren't these tracks published during their careers, were they not happy with them? On the other hand, Selena's tracks could also offer insight into her development as an artist, while simply giving her fans more to savor.
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"I own 5 Selena tape masters from pre-EMI times. There's a total of 50 songs. We picked 10 of those songs and we're currently working on refreshing the music. We want to rejuvenate their sound, bring them up-to-date."
The remaining 40 songs will also be released eventually, but for the time being you can expect the new CD to come out early next year.
There are always ethical and artistic issues when an artist's unreleased work is published post-mortem. The music was recorded when Selena was in her mid-teens. It possibly sounds very different from the more mature sound we got to know her by, and she obviously has no artistic input on how these masters are put together. Pick any artist who went before their time (Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Miles Davis, Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur) and then had posthumous releases. There's always the question: Why weren't these tracks published during their careers, were they not happy with them? On the other hand, Selena's tracks could also offer insight into her development as an artist, while simply giving her fans more to savor.
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