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A new Selena album will be released in April, 27 years after her death

The songs are part of the catalog belonging to the family's record label. Producers were able to digitally update Selena's voice in her teen songs to sound exactly as she did before her death in 1995.
American singer Selena rides in a carriage during a performance at Houston's Astrodome on Feb. 26, 1995. The performance was her last before the 23-year-old's murder the following month.

Get ready Selena fans — a new album will soon be on the horizon.

Nearly three decades after her tragic death, Abraham Quintanilla, the father of the late Selena Quintanilla-Perez, says a new Selena album is set to be released sometime next month.

In an interview with , Quintanilla

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