“Selena The One” Is Not The Return Of Selena

*”Selena the One,”  a holographic reanimation of the late singer, will go on tour  in 2018. The tour will include new songs and collaborations with current artists. So, cool or creepy? VL

By Andie Flores, Remezcla

Early this month, Selena Quintanilla’s family and Nevada-based tech company Acrovirt, LLC announced the coming of an Indiegogo campaign to raise $500,000 in order to bring Selena fans “Selena the One”: a “digital format” version of the singer, “body, voice, and mind.” “Selena the One,” they said, would bring us new songs and collaborate with current artists when it goes on tour in 2018.

In an interview with Billboard, Selena’s sister Suzette Quintanilla expressed her family’s total support of the project, saying, “We think it’s something amazing. A lot of the new fans that did not get to experience what Selena was about hopefully will be able to get a sense of her with this new technology that’s going to be coming out.”

This is not the first, nor the last time holographic or CGI technology will reanimate deceased performers. Michael Jackson, Tupac, Eazy E, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Elvis, and Frank Sinatra have all had another go-round in the spotlight, and Selena would be the first Latina to perform through this kind of technology.

“It’s not about replacing Selena in any shape, way or form,” Suzette stressed. “It’s just something to help her legacy continue growing.”

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