Unforgettable: The Studio Album
Selena
EMI Televisa Music, 2005
1 CD
Catalogue #: 74431
EAN: 0724347443121
UPC: 724347443121
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Additional personnel: Nando "Guero" Dominguez (vocals).
In the early 1990s, Selena was the leading star of the rising Tejano musical movement, poised to become a huge pop star after scoring hit after hit on the Latin music charts. Years after her 1995 murder, Selena's fans still carried a torch for the passionate performer, who packed a lifetime of singing into her nearly 24 years. UNFORGETTABLE: THE STUDIO ALBUM is one of a pair of 2005 collections (along with UNFORGETTABLE: THE LIVE ALBUM) documenting her rise to glory, collecting the original versions of her many hit songs.
THE STUDIO ALBUM opens on a pitch-perfect note with the winsome "Como la Flor," a song that shows off the music's balance of Mexican rhythms with American pop sensibilities. Occasionally interspersed with banter from the incomparable Don Francisco, the tracks on UNFORGETTABLE masterfully showcase the many sides of Selena, from the pure Latin pop of "Fotos y Recuerdos" (a clever take on the Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang") to her posthumously released crossover pop hit "Dreaming of You." While there have been many compilations of Selena's singles, UNFORGETTABLE provides a definitive collection of her greatest hits.
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Selena
The queen of Mexican pop music from the 1980s until her death in 1995, Selena Quintanilla had roots in the Tejano music of her native Mexico, but did more than anyone to introduce the Mexican pop scene into the worldwide mainstream with a sound equally influenced by dance music, R&B, and '80s pop/rock. Selena was recording her first English-language album and was on the verge of a huge international breakthrough when she was murdered at the age of 23 by the crazed president of her fan club. In a tragic irony, that album raced to Number One and Selena achieved posthumous iconic status. Two years later, the biopic SELENA was released, with Jennifer Lopez in the title role.
