Grammy recognizes Selena’s career with a posthumous award

Selena Quintanilla will be honored with the posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, To be held on Sunday, January 31, 2021. The Recording Academy will announce on Tuesday, December 22 the full list of honorees for its 2021 Special Merit Awards.

“Welcoming the new class of Special Merit Award winners gives us the opportunity to reward and recognize the influence they have had on the music community regardless of genre,” said Harvey Mason Jr. , interim president / executive director of the Recording Academy, through a statement.

“As a music creator and music lover, I am grateful to be able to look back at our influences and see the impact they have had on our community. In a year that music has helped us stay afloat together, I hope to honor this iconic group of music creators. ” In addition the press release states that “given the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, more details on the special award presentation event will be announced at a later date.”

Selena has revived in the Netflix series

The news comes just weeks after the release of Netflix’s “Selena: The Series,” a drama that chronicles the life and legacy of the iconic singer who tragically died in 1995 at the age of 23. “I loved his music even before I joined the band … Keyboardist Ricky Vela was my hero in terms of musicality. His father [Abraham Quintanilla] it made an amazing sound when I went to see them at an event in San Antonio. I learned a lot by playing the parts of his guitarist Roger García and doing my best to stretch even more, ”Quintanilla’s husband, Chris Pérez, wrote on Instagram, alongside a poster for the series.

Millions of fans have reunited with the story and music of Selena, knowing details close to the Quintanilla family. According to the statements of the protagonist Yolanda Saldívar, the second season is a “celebration of the life of his life and not his death”, so that Selena’s death is not the main focus of the plot. .