During the February 26, 1995 Houston Astrodome concert, Selena danced with her hands to the solo melody notes of 'Si Una Vez', which became one of her signature dance moves. Her final performance was on March 14, 1995 during the Calle Ocho Festival in Miami, Florida, which attracted over 100,000 fans. The first performance of the song was during Selena's half-hour spot on the Johnny Canales Show in mid-1994. Selena promoted the song during her Amor Prohibido Tour, she included the song in every venue. 'Si Una Vez', one of the first songs composed for Selena's fifth studio album Amor Prohibido (1994), it incorporates Mariachi and Ranchera music. 'Si Una Vez' was composed in a moderate beat tempo with 87 beats per minute. 'Si Una Vez' ends with dominant seventh chord simultaneously with minor chord, Dm. Selena's Mariachi-yells has a basic sequence of C♯- F- B flat in its chord progression. Music notations, Dm, which is a minor chord on D, transfers to Gm. The song starts off with the pitch of La Dièse, which is the eleventh semitone of the solfege, and progress to a B-flat, the eleventh semitone of the Western chromatic scale, before changing back to the pitch of La Dièse. Vela also confessed of using a Mariachi trumpet, with a moderate Cumbia-beat, while stating that 'Si Una Vez' was one of his favorite songs on the album. Ricky Vela, who also was interviewed, revealed that the band wanted to performed with the Guitarrón guitar, instead of the traditional guitars that they had used for the other songs in the album.

Quintanilla III, while being interviewed for Selena's collection: 20 Years of Music, stated that 'Si Una Vez' was an experimental music and helped boost 'Amor Prohibido' as a progressive cumbia album, with its Mariachi Cumbia rhythms. The song was based on how Vela fell in love with Selena's sister, Suzette Quintanilla, though found out she had a husband. The song was the second 'out of emotions' song from Selena's band Los Dinos, after, ' No Me Queda Más' ( Template:Lang-en), which was written by Ricky Vela. The song was then produced by Bebu Silvetti and remixed by Brain 'Red' Moore at Q-Productions in Corpus Christi, Texas. He also felt that the song would help Amor Prohibido to become a well-known album, for its choice of progressive cumbias. Quintanilla III said in an interview that he really liked the song because of its message and different styles of music, which helped the song 'fit in' for Selena's album. While the song was written from a man's point-of-view and was initially written for Astudillo's debut album, Quintanilla convinced Astudillo to allow Selena to record the song for her album. Quintanilla, Selena's brother and producer. The following day, Astudillo began rearranging the letter he had written and instantly was inspired to re-write it into a song, with the help of A.B. Astudillo, out of emotions, began writing down his feelings towards the break-up. 'Si Una Vez' was first written by Pete Astudillo, who was dumped by his girlfriend.

4 Critical reception and chart performance.

The song has been covered by many artists, with the most notable example being by Manny Manuel, whose version peaked at number-one on the US Latin Tropical Airplay on Billboard.

Selena promoted 'Si Una Vez' during her Amor Prohibido Tour, performing it at every venue. It won the BMI Pop Music Award in 1994 for 'Song of The Year', and became the second song, after ' No Me Queda Más', to be written out-of-emotions from Selena's band Los Dinos. With progressive cumbia (Colombian music) and experimental music that incorporates both Mariachi and Ranchera's, the single quickly climbed to number four on Billboard 's Latin Regional Mexican Airplay chart.Īccording to Billboard, 'Si Una Vez' is one of Selena's signature songs. The song had first been intended for Astudillo's debut album, but was later given to Selena to record, and released in the United States for Tejano and rhythmic contemporary stations. It was written and produced by Pete Astudillo, A.B. ' Si Una Vez' ('If Once') is a song by American singer Selena, released as the fifth single from her album Amor Prohibido (1994).

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