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American singer (born 1939)

Musical artist

Abraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr. (born February 20, 1939)^[1] is an American singer, songwriter, and producer.

He is the father of Tejano singer Selena and was her manager throughout her life.

Quintanilla was born to a Mexican-American family in Corpus Christi, Texas.

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He began his music career as a member of the singing group the "Dinos" in 1956. He left the group in the late 1960s and initially retired from music to raise a family. After discovering Selena's singing talent, he created the band Selena y Los Dinos composed of Selena and her two older siblings to develop her talent.

Under his management, the group became a major success in Tejano music by the late 1980s, allowing Selena to begin a solo career and become one of the most celebrated Latin music artists of all time. Following Selena's murder in 1995, Quintanilla became an executive producer of a biographical film about her life, in which he was