Selena Live!

Live!
Cover of Live!, which showcases two photographs of the singer during the concert. On the left, the singer waves to those in attendance wearing a leather jacket, tight pants, and boots backed in a red background. On the right, a spotlight is on the singer while she performs in an unbuttoned jacket backed in a blue background.
Live album by
ReleasedMay 4, 1993
RecordedFebruary 7, 1993
VenueMemorial Coliseum
GenreTejano
Length55:47
LanguageSpanish
LabelEMI Latin
ProducerA.B. Quintanilla
Selena chronology
Entre a Mi Mundo
(1992)
Live!
(1993)
Mis Mejores Canciones – 17 Super Éxitos
(1993)
Singles from Live!
  1. "No Debes Jugar"
    Released: April 29, 1993
  2. "La Llamada"
    Released: October 18, 1993

Live![1][2][3] or Selena Live![4][5][6] is a live album by American Tejano pop singer Selena, which was released on May 4, 1993, by EMI Latin. The album was re-released on September 22, 2002, as being part of the Selena: 20 Years of Music collection; which included spoken liner notes by her family, friends and her former band members Selena y Los Dinos. Live! includes three cumbia-influenced studio tracks, while the rest of the album consists of live versions of previously released songs. The album was recorded during a free concert at the Memorial Coliseum in Corpus Christi, Texas, on February 7, 1993. It was certified gold (Latin type) by the Recording Industry Association of America in its first year, double platinum in 1995, and 8× platinum in 2017.

Live! led Selena to win a Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Album at the 36th Grammy Awards, the first Tejano musician to do so. It had won two awards from the 1994 Billboard Latin Music Awards, and three awards at the 1994 Tejano Music Awards. Live! peaked at number one on the US Regional Mexican Albums, number two on the Top Latin Albums and number 79 on the Billboard 200. Soon after the release of Live!, the album received mostly positive reviews from music critics who claimed the album was "foreshadowing" Amor Prohibido (1994), and that Selena was the Mexican equivalent of Madonna. The album spawned three singles, which were simultaneously in the top five positions on the Hot Latin Tracks chart.

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  4. ^ Valdes, Alisa (April 7, 1995). "Loving Selena, fans loved themselves". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on January 4, 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2011. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Arrarás, María Celeste (1997). Selena's secret : the revealing story behind her tragic death. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-83193-7.
  6. ^ Patoski, Joe Nick (1996). Selena : Como la flor (1st ed.). New York: Boulevard Books. ISBN 1-57297-246-7.

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