![]() “Since my daughter Selena died, I was wanting to write a book.” "Today I finally finished the last chapter of my book that I have been writing for the last few months,” Quintanilla wrote on Facebook. Quintanilla, now 81, announced in February that he had finished writing a book about Selena with ghostwriter Nancy De Los Santos, who was a co-producer of the Selena movie. ![]() 5 | He finished writing a book about Selena in February. Billboard 200 chart and remains among the bestselling Latin albums of all time, per Billboard. ![]() Her fifth and final studio album Dreaming of You, which was released in 1995, was the first predominantly Spanish-language album top the U.S. Selena released her first solo album five years later. The band signed to Freddie Records and released their debut album in 1984. Quintanilla facilitated the band’s performances, which occurred everywhere from street corners to weddings. At first, he performed alongside his children, but eventually he embraced a full managerial role. Quintanilla formed a new band with Selena as the lead singer, called Selena y Los Dinos. According to Patowski, Selena came into the room during the lesson and began singing alongside her father and it was then Abraham realized Selena’s natural aptitude for music. In the Netflix series, Quintanilla discovers Selena’s vocal talent while overhearing her sing as she attempts to catch fireflies in a jar, but in actuality, he realized Selena’s gift while he was giving his son a guitar lesson. Barbara Laing // Getty Images 4 | He discovered Selena’s vocal talent while teaching his son to play guitar. Quintanilla (right of center), and Suzette Quintanilla (far right). On at least one occasion, a club owner refused to pay them after discovering they weren’t Italian, as he’d originally believed, a scene depicted in the 1997 film Selena, which Quintanilla executive produced.Ībraham Quintanilla (center) with Chris Pérez (far left), Marcella Quintanilla (second to left), A.B. The group achieved success with the single, which was regularly played on KEYS, a Corpus Christi, Texas radio station, and a follow-up hit called “Give Me One Chance.” Despite the songs’ growing popularity, the group often faced discrimination because its members were Mexican. Not long afterwards, he joined a band called Los Dinos, which released its first single “So Hard to Tell” in 1959. However, he dropped out in his senior year to pursue a career in music. In high school, Quintanilla joined a musical group called the Gumdrops, according to Joe Nick Patowski, author of the book Selena: Como l a Flor. While Quintanilla is primarily known for being a stage father who fostered his daughter’s career, he was also a musician in his own right. 1 | His music career began long before Selena y Los Dinos. Quintanilla, along with his family members, have been working tirelessly to preserve Selena’s legacy, including by advising on the series. Without Quintanilla and his enduring belief in his daughter, the world may have never been exposed to the “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” star, whose music still resonates 25 years after her tragic death. In the second season of the series, Quintanilla is just as intense, if only slightly softer, as he comes to eventually support his daughter’s marriage to Pérez. He rallied his three children, Suzette, A.B., and Selena, for regular band practices encouraged them to perform at Papagayo’s, the Mexican restaurant he ran with his wife, Marcella Samora, before it closed amid the 1983 economic recession and drove them to gigs, where they started to garner recognition. Quintanilla’s role in fostering Selena’s stardom continues to be evident throughout the show’s second season, which begins after he kicks Selena’s then boyfriend, Chris Pérez, out of the band and leaves him in a parking lot.Īs a musician himself, Quintanilla not only had an ear for musicality but also had high standards. Netflix’s Selena: The Series may be centered on the titular musician, but within minutes of the first episode, it’s clear that there would have been no “Queen of Tejano Music” without the support of her loving, and often, exacting father, Abraham Quintanilla.
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