"Moonchild Mixes", Selena Quintanilla's new posthumous album, left her family in tears: "I really felt like I was listening to her"

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(CNN Spanish) -

 If for the followers of Selena Quintanilla it was emotional to listen to an album by the queen of Tex-Mex, after 27 years of her death, for her family the feeling was indescribable.

“Of course I cried.

I really felt like I was listening to her," Suzette Quintanilla told CNN Pop Zone in an interview via Zoom from Corpus Christi, Texas.

For the Quintanillas, "Moonchild Mixes," Selena's posthumous new album, feels like Selena walked into the recording studio a week earlier to put her voice on every track.

"If you listen to it, it sounds like she recorded those songs this morning," Abraham Quintanilla, Selena's father, told CNN Pop Zone.

“It sounded fresh and beautiful.

Her voice is very clear,” adds Suzette.

“I feel the same emotionally.

It just brings back memories and it's more than certain that the fans will feel the same," Selena's father told CNN Pop Zone.

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"Moonchild Mixes", Selena's new

The production has 10 songs and three new versions of the song “Como te Quiero Yo a Ti”, recorded by Selena at the tender age of 13.

The album that was produced by AB Quintanilla, Selena's brother and who was also behind her best-known hits such as "Amor Prohibido" and "Como la flor", is a compilation of songs that Selena performed in her musical beginnings, when she sang together to his brothers in the group Selena and Los Dinos.

That time and especially cumbia, one of the original sounds of the Tejano singer, is what captivated her sister Suzette in this production.

“I found it interesting to hear the different versions that AB could give each song musically.

I was able to listen to her journey with cumbia [on the album].

I was also able to hear who we were, as a group, like

, ”said the singer's sister.

In the production there are songs like "Don't cry anymore", which Selena performed as a teenager with her brothers.

"These songs were recorded 37 years ago," says Abraham Quintanilla.

The tracks, which were originally recorded on vinyl, were digitized and remastered to bring Selena into 2022.

For this reason, AB Quintanilla used different production processes to age Selena's voice on those songs, such as lowering the pitch of the singer's voice.

The production process took about a year, Abraham Quintanilla tells Zona Pop CNN.

However, the planning of the album began a few years ago, "before the pandemic, for sure," said the singer's father.

Before the debate in social networks about the digitization of Selena's voice, Abraham Quintanilla clarifies that the voice is "the same with which it was originally recorded.

All we did was improve her, so she sounds more like when she passed away."

Selena was between 13 and 16 years old when she recorded some of the songs that are part of "Moonchild Mixes".

The singer died at the age of 24.

“Being able to hear [the voice] clearly is just beautiful,” says Abraham Quintanilla.

As Selena's father told CNN Pop Zone, Q Productions – the family company behind the Tex-Mex queen's estate – has a catalog of 50 songs by the artist.

"Later on we will decide what we are going to do," said Abraham Quintanilla.

For now, they are focused on honoring Selena's legacy by doing what they promised 27 years ago, when the voice of an entire generation was extinguished.

“We had promised since the day he passed away that we would keep his memory alive through music,” said Abraham Quintanilla.

"We decided it was time to do it," he explains.

“Moonchild Mixes” is available on all

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