Grammy recognizes Selena’s career with a posthumous award

Selena Quintanilla is honored with a Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, which will take place on Sunday, January 31, 2021. The Recording Academy announced the full list of awards for the 2021 Special Merit Awards on Tuesday, December 22.

“Welcoming the new class of Special Merit Award recipients gives us the opportunity to reward and recognize the impact they have had on the music community regardless of gender,” said Harvey Mason Jr., acting president / CEO of the Recording Academy, through a statement.

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

Selena has been 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 before I joined the band … Keyboardist Ricky Vela was my hero when it came to musicality. His father [Abraham Quintanilla] it made an incredible noise when I visited them at an event in San Antonio. I learned a lot by playing the role of his guitarist Roger García and doing everything possible to stretch it even more, ” Quintanilla’s husband, Chris Pérez, wrote on Instagram, alongside a poster for the series.

Millions of fans have been rediscovered with Selena’s history and music, 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 her life and not of her death”, so Selena’s death is not central to the plot.