A.B. and Abraham then planned to release an album featuring Selena, who was murdered in 1995 by her "friend" and ex-employee Yolanda Saldivar. Their aim was to update Selena's music for the modern music industry. They intended to take vocals from five previously unreleased songs that Selena had recorded before signing a recording contract with Capitol Latin (then EMI Latin) in 1989. The vocals would then be combined into new songs to create a full-length album, as if Selena were still alive.