In July 1996, Pulido married Eliza Anzaldua and took a short career hiatus. He continued promoting his second studio album "Enséñame", which was released a month after his marriage. "Billboard" called "Enséñame" a "rousing" ranchera and "infectious" cumbia-flavored recording, and said it believed Pulido was aiming to follow Emilio Navaira, who wanted to crossover and become a country music artist. Ramiro Burr of the "San Antonio Express-News" said Pulido's vocals were "much improved" over his previous work. "Enséñame" peaked at number ten on the U.S. "Billboard" Top Latin Albums and number two on the U.S. "Billboard" Regional Mexican Albums chart. It also produced three top-twenty Regional Mexican Airplay tracks; "Enséñame", "Se Murió De Amor", and "La Rosa". The album earned Pulido a nomination for the Tejano Music Award for Male Entertainer of the Year and the Lo Nuestro Award for Regional Mexican New Artist of the Year. Pulido along with Mexican singer Graciela Beltrán, American urban quintets the Barrio Boyzz, Tejano musicians Emilio Navaira, Pete Astudillo, and Jennifer Peña recorded "Viviras Selena" for the 1997 soundtrack to the biopic film about Selena, who was called the Queen of Tejano music and was killed in March 1995. By 1997, Pulido was being credited for introducing Tejano music to a much younger audience in the U.S., among other Tejano novitiates.