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 track is an irresistible party starter that refuses to let you sit down. Right from the start, Selena sets a rule for the room: Nadie se quede sentado / Todos vamos a bailar ("Nobody stay seated / Everyone is going to dance"). She sings about feeling a groove that takes over her body—Siento algo que me mueve ("I feel something moving me")—and turns the whole space into a shared celebration. It is direct, upbeat, and focused entirely on the joy of moving together.
She acts like a dance instructor at the ultimate family fiesta, shouting out energetic step-by-step commands to keep the crowd hyped. She tells everyone, Tomen todos su parejas ("Everyone grab your partners") and Todos vamos a gozar ("Everyone is going to have a good time"). Then she kicks up the intensity: Mueve, mueve la cintura ("Move, move your waist"), Todos, las manos en alto ("Everyone, hands up high"), and Y griten, griten con locura ("And scream, scream with madness"). It is a fun, contagious anthem that keeps things simple, infectious, and impossible to ignore on the dance floor.
Selena Quintanilla-PĂ©rez 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.