With blunt cut bangs, long brown hair and a spectacular red shade of lipstick, Nadia Garcia is the image of a young Selena Quintanilla Perez. Garcia twirled on a stage in the center court at La ...

The roots of hot latin dance and cumbia music are days of slavery in the late 17th century. The name is derived from the African word cumbe, which means dance. Cumbia was brought Colombia around the ...

When I heard someone on NPR say cumbia was “the musical backbone of Latin America,” I almost crashed my car into a light post. “You wish!” I thought. Then, after veering out of trouble and cooling off ...

In honor of what would’ve been Selena Quintanilla’s 44th birthday, we’ve compiled the definitive list of Selena’s greatest hits. Agree with us, or argue with us. All we know that any song in her ...

This story is part of a special feature package celebrating Selena, the Queen of Tejano. Lee la historia en español aquí. On a humid, warm night in the spring of 2008, at a party in McAllen, I met the ...

This review ran in the Houston Post on Feb. 27, 1995. The headline and words are reprinted as they ran then. With 61,041 people packing the Dome, Go Tejano Day at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ...

Red lips, feathered bangs and a voice that has spanned decades — Selena Quintanilla Perez, Grammy-winning Mexican American singer known to many as Selena, released her fifth and final studio album, ...