Dreaming Of You (Remaster) (CD)

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• Release Date: September 17, 2002
• Label: EMI Televisa Music
• UPC: 724354096907
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106258663
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #46647 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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Rolling Stone (9/7/95, pp.72-73) - 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - "...Any of her five English-language ballads on DREAMING OF YOU could've been made for a sweet VH1 crossover..."
Entertainment Weekly (7/21/95, p.63) - "...Whether belting out traditional ballads or tropical fantasies, Selena evokes lust and passion..." - Rating: B
Vibe (9/95, p.176) - "...at once a brief recap of her cumbia-flavored, Tex-Mex excellence and a poignant glimpse of the exploratory English-language path her career was beginning to take....her musical language flowed between South American cumbia, Caribbean reggae/dancehall, and...a kind of Latino urban contemporary..."

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Personnel includes: Selena (vocals); Nick Moroch, Dann Huff, Chris Perez (guitar); Jerry Hey, Dan Higgens, Gary Grant, Bill Reichenbac (horns); Guy Roche (synthesizer, drums, programming); Ricky Vela (keyboards, drum programming); Joe Ojeda (keyboards); Rhett Lawrence (synthesizer, drums, drum programming); Valerie Naranjo (marimba); Tommy Sims, Neil Stubenhauss, Paul Socolow, A.B. Quintanilla III (bass); Todd Turkisher, Suzette Q. Arriaga (drums); Art Meza (percussion); Keith Thomas, Mark Hammond, Delphine (programming); Donna Delorey (background vocals).

Compilation producer: Guillermo J. Page.

Producers include: Keith Thomas, Guy Roche, Rhett Lawrence, Arto Lindsay, Susan Rogers.

Engineers include: Bill Whittington, Mario Luccy, Moana Suchard.

Includes liner notes by John Lannert.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Proceeds from DREAMING OF YOU will be donated to the EMI/Selena Scholarship Fund.

The jury will forever be out on Selena Quintanilla-Perez, who was in the midst of recording her first all-English album when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club. As an English-speaking American who became a huge star in the Spanish-speaking world of Tejano music, she was criticized for not having authentic roots. Yet, when she started reaching out to an American pop audience toward the end of her life, she was--natch--criticized for leaving those roots. You can sell a million records, but you just can't win.

There is, however, no doubt about this: Selena, who was 23 when she died, was going to be a major pop star. DREAMING OF YOU collects the few tracks she had completed for her English-language debut, along with some recent Latino hits, her versions of two mariachi classics, and bilingual duets with the R&B band the Barrio Boyzz and former Talking Head David Byrne. The range of material is stunning, as one might expect of a singer whose roots were in hybrid soil. The mariachi number "El Toro Relajo" is a vibrant dance of horns and acoustic strings, and Selena sings it with rough-hewn glee. On the other hand, her vocal on "Como La Flor" is filled with palpable hurt and longing, in ironic contrast to the song's Caribbean rhythm and carnival keyboards.

Selena's English-language recordings are something else altogether--fully realized pop productions that could have launched her career skyward. "I Could Fall In Love" is a modern country-pop ballad, interlaced with Spanish guitar and a sultry vocal. "Captive Heart" is passionate urban pop with a chorus that makes Selena sound less like a Hispanic Madonna than like the American one. DREAMING OF YOU debuted at #1 on the pop charts; and still, it seemed, there was room to go up.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Released in 1995, the same year she was tragically shot, DREAMING OF YOU was the first of Selena's posthumous releases. Prior to her death, Selena had been something of a cultural icon in Latino communities, admired as much for her status as a positive cultural role model as for her breezy, catchy dance-pop.

Like many of Selena's albums, DREAMING OF YOU balances ballads with bouncy, Latin-inflected grooves, a combination that had gained her popularity with young Latino listeners and traditional Tejano fans alike. The news of the singer's death brought her music to wider attention among North American audiences, so the album struck a chord across different cultural communities, a fact reinforced, no doubt, by the album's mix of Spanish and English lyrics, and her duet with David Byrne on "God's Child."

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