Gozar means "to enjoy oneself" or "to revel". It's a fantastic word that implies a deeper, more wholehearted sense of joy than just having fun.
In this classic cumbia, Selena's call to "¡Todos vamos a gozar!" (Let's all go enjoy ourselves!) is an invitation to feel the music in your soul and celebrate with abandon. It perfectly captures the infectious, joyful energy that makes you want to get up and dance.
This song is pure energy! Selena, the Queen of Tejano music, gives us a simple, direct, and irresistible command. The message is clear from the very first line: get up and dance to this cumbia. She insists that "Nadie se quede sentado" [Nobody stay seated] because "Todos vamos a bailar" [We're all going to dance]. The song is built around what she calls "un ritmo sin igual" [a rhythm without equal], a beat so infectious you can't help but move.
Selena even gives you instructions for the party. She tells you to grab a partner, "Mueve, mueve la cintura" [Move, move your waist], and put "las manos en alto" [your hands in the air]. The final step? You have to "griten con locura" [shout with craziness]. It's a song about letting go and feeling the joy of the music together with everyone in the room.
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas, fronting her family's band, Selena y Los Dinos, with her brother A.B. writing the songs and playing bass and her sister Suzette on drums. She was raised speaking English, and her father drilled the Spanish lyrics into her phonetically, line by line, years before she was fluent in the language she sold millions of records in.
Tejano was a men's business when she took it over: she won the Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist of the Year nine years running from 1987, and Selena Live! took the 1994 Grammy for Best Mexican-American Album. "Como la Flor", from 1992's Entre a Mi Mundo, is the song attached to her name more than any other, and Amor Prohibido (1994) put four singles at number one on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart, among them "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" and "No Me Queda Más". She was shot and killed in Corpus Christi on March 31, 1995, aged 23, by the former president of her fan club. Dreaming of You, the English-language crossover album she had been recording, was released that August and entered the Billboard 200 at number one.