{"id":7392,"date":"2025-12-13T18:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/abraham-quintanilla-jr-death-selena-quintanilla-dad-dies-1236136784\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:41:42","slug":"abraham-quintanilla-jr-death-selena-quintanilla-dad-dies-1236136784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/abraham-quintanilla-jr-death-selena-quintanilla-dad-dies-1236136784\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Quintanilla\u2019s Father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., Dies at\u00a086"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tAbraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr., the father and manager of late Tejano music star Selena<\/a>, has died. He was 86.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news was shared by his son, Abraham \u201cA.B.\u201d Quintanilla III<\/a>, in a social media post on Saturday (Dec. 13).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s with a heavy heart to let you guys know that my Dad passed away today\u2026\u201d A.B., Selena\u2019s brother and producer, wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe post included a photo of Quintanilla set to Pedro Infante<\/a>\u2019s \u201cCien A\u00f1os.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA cause of death had not been disclosed as of press time.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in 1939 in Corpus Christi, Texas, Quintanilla began his music career as a teenager, joining the vocal group the Dinos in 1956. He later left the band in the late 1960s to focus on raising his family.<\/p>\n

\n\tQuintanilla was married to Marcella Quintanilla, and together they had three children: A.B., Suzette and Selena, who was fatally shot at age 23<\/a> in March 1995 by her former fan club president, Yolanda Sald\u00edvar.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter recognizing Selena\u2019s talent at a young age, Quintanilla went on to manage and help develop one of Latin music\u2019s most celebrated artists. He oversaw Selena y Los Dinos, the family band that included A.B. on bass, Suzette on drums and Selena\u2019s husband, Chris P\u00e9rez, on guitar.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI found out she had the talent to sing when she was six-and-a-half years old,\u201d Quintanilla told Billboard<\/em><\/a> in August 2022. \u201cAs she grew older, I would sit down with her and teach her how to sing in Spanish. I would teach her how to pronounce the word and what the word meant so she can put some emotion into it. She learned it very well. She was a good student in learning music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSelena\u2019s short-lived but historic career earned her the title of the Queen of Tejano. In the 1990s, she revolutionized the genre and broke barriers in a male-dominated field, powered by hits such as \u201cComo La Flor,\u201d \u201cDreaming of You,\u201d \u201cAmor Prohibido\u201d and \u201cBidi Bidi Bom Bom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the Billboard<\/em> charts, Selena logged 24 entries on Top Latin Albums, including 16 top 10s and seven No. 1 titles. Among them were Amor Prohibido, which spent 20 weeks at No. 1 in 1994, and the posthumous Dreaming of You, which topped the chart for 40 weeks in 1995. She also earned seven No. 1 albums on the Regional Mexican Albums chart and six on the Latin Pop Albums chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee A.B. Quintanilla\u2019s post about his father\u2019s death on Instagram here<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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