However, Barrera said he doesn't like the use of technology to lower Selena's voice. "If these new technologies can expose and create new music fans, then I'm all for them," said Taurin Barrera, executive director of a music technology program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a longtime Selena fan himself. And for many people, that's a good thing. The use of digital audio processing technologies like Autotune and Melodyne to adjust or add special effects to performers' voices is now ubiquitous in pop music production. After Warner Music Latina dropped a preview track a few weeks in advance of the album's release, fans took to social media to express their displeasure.īrandon Hunter Selena fan Brandon Hunter of Tampa, Florida poses with a Selena toy. "It'll make you think that she recorded the songs this morning."īut some Selena devotees aren't on board with this approach. "We worked on her vocal track to make her sound more mature," said Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, who, along with other members of Selena's family, collaborated with Warner Music Latina on the new release. It's also fuller, especially at the low end. Take her 1986 song "Dame tu amor," which was recorded when she was a teenager in the remixed version, her voice has been pitched down a semitone. Instead, these remixes employ digital technology to age her voice. She died in 1995, when she was only 23.īut on a new album, Moonchild Mixes, out Friday, she no longer sounds like her early-20s self. Selena became an international superstar in the 1980s and '90s because of her warm stage presence and emotional singing style.
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