Интервью для "The Sacramento Bee"
With more than 20 years of music experience and numerous No. 1 hits under his belt, A.B. Quintanilla knows the music business.
"If you get into this business to take something, you're never going to make it. When you come into this business, you gotta give something," Quintanilla, 45, said during a telephone interview. "For me, it's been 20 years of music that I've maintained giving to the public. It's not getting to No. 1, it's maintaining yourself in that VISITA UNIVISION.COM PARA MAS INFORMACION or maintaining yourself to where you don't fall down too far."
Although his band the Kumbia All Starz has not recorded a new album for a while because of music-label issues, Quintanilla is still on top of his game. To prove just that, A.B. Quintanilla y los Kumbia All Starz will perform their greatest hits at various stops in Northern California this week. Their Sacramento show is Sunday at Empire.
"People who go to these shows can expect a really, really cool old-school Kumbia Kings show because I have DJ Kane, the original vocalist for Kumbia Kings, with me. Those early Kumbia Kings albums have become favorite of the raza; they've become classics," he said.
Quintanilla, brother of the late Tejano singer Selena, has performed before hundreds of thousands of people in stadiums like the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, but is not fazed by performing at smaller venues.
"There is nothing better than to be able to reach out and shake a fan's hand and for them to be able to touch and see you up close. There's nothing like that intimate setting, when you can actually see somebody smile in the front row and they're up close and personal," said Quintanilla.
"It's not that I don't appreciate the big crowds – don't get me wrong, I love playing the massive concerts – but the smaller ones for me are the most memorable because you actually get to see the faces up close."
With two Kumbia All Starz albums out, Quintanilla says, fans can expect a new and different album sometime in 2010.
"What I really, really want to do on this next album is kind of fuse the old sound with the new sound. I think that, myself as a producer, sometimes you push the envelope, and with me I am always exploring new areas of music, new genres of music," he said.
And for those who are thinking of skipping Sunday's performance, you might want to rethink that because Quintanilla said he plans to retire in a few years.
"I've never, ever said this before, but I'm going to give myself only five more years of this. I want to retire and just become a record company president and concentrate 1,000 percent on developing new artists and spreading the love, letting other people know what it's like to become a big star," Quintanilla said.
А ведь еще 4 гда назад стоял крик, что ни 1 женщина не попадет в группу ни каким местом 
Караул! Мы их теряем!!!! 
О как время летит и оказывется у него 2 дочки, а не одна и было 3 официальных жены.
