April C. Davila's Blog – April 2014 Archive (2)

I literally just received the news that my sister's boyfriend of 4 years has passed away. A part from the mind numbing and shaking I cant quite believe that the news is real.

For the most part, I always had a the impression that he was trying to control my little sister on the other, my sister sort of controlled everything he did.

I am shaking and I can't quite grasp that he is gone.

My sister and him were going to get married. They were going to have…

While yound adults my age are listening to hit singles from Pitbull and JLo, I am going back to my Texas roots and jamming Selena.

Selena is a Mexican-American second generation chicana singer who made the impact of coming in the 90s with her ritmo musica and sweeping Hispanics off their feet. I mean, could you blame her?

Her rhythm and her beautiful voice was and is a catastrophic change compared to singers you listen to today. Her music was not filled with voice recordings,…