Selena

Dreaming of You was released after Selena's murder, and chances are not every song was finished when she died. But no album shows her versatility so clearly: originally a Tejano star, she had the emotional and vocal chops to penetrate the American pop and R&B charts. This spawned the hits "Amor Prohibido," "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" and "Como La Flor."

Martyred Mexican-American superstar Selena, shot to death by her ex-fan club president
outside a Corpus Christi, Texas, motel this past March, loved dressing skimpily onstage so
you could see her navel and cleavage. But she was still wholesome enough to be praised as
a role model for Latina teens, and though her Tex-Mex pop roped in everything from
reggae toasting to cowboy-polka oompahs, it often came off as too wholesome.... More >