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Some names benefit from a temporary faddishness. Selena was languishing at 780th place in 1990, but rose to 300th by 1994 as the fame of Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla grew. The name vaulted to No. 91 after Quintanilla's murder in 1995 but has since settled back to 352. Diego has enjoyed a similar bump, going from 186th place to 68th in the last decade, perhaps due to the popular boy sidekick in the ubiquitous Dora the Explorer cartoons. Designer Paloma Picasso may be giving a similar - if subtler - bump to my own daughter's name, which has gone from...
...Anna Kournikova is the hottest tennis player I’ve ever seen,” said Julian A. Quintanilla, a Harvard Summer School student...
...Latina” will be making its fourth annual performance at Lowell Lecture Hall, showing once at 4 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. Co-produced by Herrera and Jonathan Rosa ’08, and co-directed by sophomores Marisol Pineda ’08 and Eloise T. Quintanilla ’08, the show hopes to continue in its tradition of giving audiences an idea of the full breadth and depth of Latino culture. This year’s “Presencia Latina” will include what Pineda calls “as large a variety...
WHEN A.B. QUINTANILLA talks about his sister Selena, the Tex-Mex music star murdered last March, allegedly by the former president of her fan club, his voice breaks with emotion. "I produced all of Selena's Latin stuff, all her successful stuff, and I'll never run into a vocalist like her ever again, or have a sister like her," he says. "That's what gives me an empty feeling--losing her first as a sister and then as a vocalist...
...sorrowful accomplishment, since it comes after her passing. Her Tejano music was sometimes clumsy; but the English pop songs on this new album are sweet, pure and clear, and on the mariachi numbers, Selena shows off a voice that is sexy, strong and gracefully maturing. Says her brother Quintanilla: "I'm very pleased with the way the album came out. But to be honest, it's not a quarter of what the album might have been if she had been able to finish it." How good could the CD have been? As with all postmortem music, it is a question...