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Rena Dearman

 

  Nineteen-year-old Rena Dearman answered an ad Abraham put in the Brazosport Facts for a lead guitarist and a keyboardist. Her boyfriend (later husband) Rodney Pyeatt played guitar; she played keyboards.  Dearman says she was impressed the first time she heard Selena sing.

"I didn't expect to hear what I heard," she says. "Of course, her intonation was going to be higher. But it's what she did with the notes. This girl had some vibrato on her. She could make it work. Her release from the notes, it wasn't like your everyday little girl singing. She sounded more like a young woman."

Abraham pushed the band hard to improve, Dearman says. Every day they weren't playing at the restaurant, they were in the garage practicing. The repertoire was mostly Top 40 hits sung in English and the occasional pop oldie with Spanish lyrics that Abraham had translated. Then he started writing his own songs in Spanish for the band.

Dearman came to feel like a member of the family, and she looked up to Abraham. He had a temper, but he was fair.

"I respected what he was trying to accomplish. When he would be the way he is, I didn't take it the wrong way. He was taking care of business. The man had a goal. He knew what he was doing. And he was a good daddy. He loved those kids."

 


Abraham Quintanilla Jr., Rena Dearman, Selena, Rodney Pyeatt, Suzette and A.B.



Rena Dearman - 1997