![]() ![]() “I wasn’t used to just taking nibbles, an occasional song for someone else, here and there.įor the next year and a half A. “For every ten cuts on any Selena album, I wrote maybe eight of them,” he says. Though helpful in bringing him back to action, this work still left A. Other work came in quick sequence, for Cristian Castro, for Mexican pop star Verónica Castro and her son Cristian, for the Puerto Rican merengue chanteuse Olga Tañón. B.’s “Amandote.” He followed this with “Te Quiero, Te Amo,” written for David Lee Garza as belated repayment for his appearance on accordion nearly ten years before on an early Selena session. His first effort was for the singer Thalía, who scored a hit with A. This beautiful ride came to its end with Selena’s passing in 1995. wrote the songs, ran the show, and produced their studio sessions. Suzette played drums and handled the marketing. Selena, the youngest, was the headliner, already winning attention before she was ten years old. Nurtured by a growing interest in their heritage, the Quintanilla’s began exploring Mexican-American genres in their first album, a mixture of original and cover songs, in 1984, and hunkered down into a life on the road, playing anywhere and everywhere they could find an opportunity and his sisters learned Spanish, they also began playing gigs as Selena Y Los Dinos Yet no matter how many careers he launches, or how much he helps to enrich America’s changing soundscape, he will never turn his back on the past, on the lessons learned through hardship as well as love.Īs A. has built a unique sound in his music by drawing from diverse sources of inspiration. He’s won Grammys and BMI songwriting awards, founded and led some of the most popular bands in the modern Latin market, had to fight back toward the light on his own. But in the dark years that followed her passing in 1995, A. was at her side, producing her records, writing her hits, playing bass onstage with her in their family’s band. ![]() ![]() But he proved he was ready to introduce the world his brand of music when his sister Selena, became one of the brightest young stars in Latin music. Washington is where the first stage in the life of this extraordinary musician, producer, songwriter, loyal family member, and survivor began. and his younger sisters, Selena and Suzette, were raised. Just three months after his birth, the family moved down to Lake Jackson, Texas, where A. Abraham Quintanilla III was born in Toppenish, Washington, the first child of Abraham II and Marcela. ![]()
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