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The women of La Conquista are currently working on the singles for their next CD with Q-Productions. "We have to do the work to make it happen," says Quintanilla. "We want the top for them, what every group wants, what [Selena] had." Quintantilla is back in a familiar role; he displays a stern, and distinctly fatherly pride in the group's growing success. He wants them to first concentrate on becoming big in the United States, then on taking their music to Mexico and the rest of Latin America--much as Selena did in the 1990s. Just before playing at SXSW in Austin, the group played in Miami, to thousands of fans at the huge Calle Ocho street festival. "They received a huge write up with their picture in the Miami Herald," Quintanilla boasts.
"We have been underestimated many times before," says [Monica] de la [Garza]. "People think we don't play our instruments but we play very well." There are a good number of female musical acts in Latin America, but Monica insists that La Conquista is the only cumbia group she knows of where all of the women play their own instruments. "Right now we are in a very male territory but we hope to open the door for other women to start cumbia bands," she says. "We have a lot of young girls who come to our shows and we want to be an example to them."See the full content of this document
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The Conquest
Come on, girls. You're late!" yells manager Abraham Quintanilla, attempting to move the five women of La Conquista, an up-and-coming cumbia pop group, out of the tour bus and onto the stage at Austin's Auditorium Shores. The young women plead for one more minute as t...
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