Enamorada de Ti (song)

This article is about the song by Selena. For the song by Jenilca Giusti, see Jenilca Giusti.

"Enamorada de Ti"
Song by Selena
from the album Ven Conmigo
LanguageSpanish
Recorded1990
GenreFreestyle,[1][2] dance-pop
Length
  • 4:05 (original version)
  • 2:59 (remix version)
LabelEMI Latin
Songwriter(s)A.B. Quintanilla III, Pete Astudillo
Producer(s)A.B. Quintanilla III

"Enamorada de Ti" (English: "In Love With You") is a song recorded by American Tejano recording artist Selena for her second studio album, Ven Conmigo (1990). The song was written by Selena y Los Dinos band member Pete Astudillo and her brother, A.B. Quintanilla III, and produced by Quintanilla, It is a Spanish-language adaptation of "Is It the Beat?", an English song originally written by Quintanilla III and Pamela Phillips Oland. The English version was recorded by Selena in 1989 for a potential English-language crossover album.

"Enamorada de Ti" falls under the freestyle genre, which was popular in the late 1980s. The recording was later remixed by Juan Magan for the eponymous album in 2012, a project led by Humberto Gatica. While the original song had moderate success in the early 1990s, it gained wider exposure through the remix album Enamorada de Ti. As a result, the song reached number 17 on the US Billboard Regional Mexican Digital Songs chart that year.

In 1997, a posthumously-released remix version of "Is It the Beat?" incorporated the rap verse from "Enamorada de Ti".

In the Spanish lyrics of "Enamorada de Ti," the protagonist expresses her inability to function normally in the absence of her love interest, emphasizing her deep love for him. On the other hand, the English lyrics focus on falling in love at first sight in a nightclub setting. Selena performed "Enamorada de Ti" during her Ven Conmigo Tour (1990–92) and at the 1990 Tejano Music Awards, where she received the Female Vocalist of the Year award. She also performed "Is It The Beat?" at least once, often as part of a medley with the Spanish version during the Ven Conmigo Tour.

Furthermore, during the first season of Telemundo's La Voz Kids, a Spanish-language version of the US singing competition The Voice, Xairexis Garcia performed "Enamorada de Ti".

  1. ^ Puga, Kristina (26 November 2013). "What happened to freestyle? Two kings of the genre still going strong". NBC Latino. NBCUniversal. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  2. ^ Gill, Michael F. (13 August 2008). "The Bluffer's Guide to Freestyle". Stylus. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2012.