Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. it turns out, is the power of authenticity and agency and legacy, and in today's conversation with award winning journalist and writer and producer maria garcia, we die. and here is so special to me and the lamb connected to the land is through my five senses, and one of the most powerful one of those is my son. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to. but not in a way that I feel like it needs to be told that could be told. You know- and I was, really passionate about that, and that's why I stayed you, practicing journalism fur for over ten years here, because I was so passionate about, the stories of my community and I felt this huge responsibility, and I thought, really passion about telling the stories of the border, but I felt this, happened, is you know I started off in commercial television. there's thousands of people who cross the border every single day there. regularly every week in every week and moving back and forth between areas and EL paso and curious about that. You feel like you're accepted by wherever you are for you. Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for Selena? Because again, my heart could not not be here. Because Black women have this bottom all our lives. Selena devotees of all ages have turned to Instagram, TikTok and Youtube to restore and remix Selena's memory. Now, oh there's more to it, because I see this in the pot cast like it doesn't start there. beyond you know the man made border and what our past. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether its fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. That's different and fuller, like prison their mind. I, like you, just described that that second, that the said where you're talking about, the role of her dad. Maria confronts the complicated legacy of Abraham Quintanilla, Selena's father, and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. on the cusp of major major start up. I think that's where this conversation really comes in because, I am one of those millions of people who see her as us like a sacred symbol. I'm sure you know this with, So you know- You'Ll- have a group of people who come together and you re you'll have essentially a table read of the script where you play the. You can find Maria at: Instagram | Websites. You know, why am I? Sign up free 0:00 0:00 they can show up as authentically myself and more spaces. What's there, standard and do I trust that that standard represent, The way that I want to bring myself forward and the way that, like I want this story to be brought forward, there's a lot of what years there and theirs, what of trust their summer. Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. En este episodio, Maria explora por qu el spanglish de Selena pareca tan revolucionario para su poca y, a la misma vez, tan familiar para sus fans, quienes tambin padecan con el idioma de sus padres o antepasados. sent one him over, but also how it brought it brings up you're really. Sort of like a shared experience between the Latino community and the broader white American communities, basically. You know, a process- has to be rigorous and sound, and you have to be able, editors, who really held my story with a lot of compassion and love, too much in the story to the point where wasn't relevant what, me down and say we don't really need that or what. We got all these messages from people being, re actually at the interviewer like yeah, they were gone. ===Excerpt, The Oprah Winfrey Show, unknown episode, 1999===, There's all this talk about My girlfriend Gayle--I didn't even know this--but my girlfriend, "You know, people are always talking about her bottom.. And I talk about this in the episode, this was particularly difficult for me because it made me think so much of the women in Jurez, being from the border, the women in Ciudad Jurez in Mexico, who disappeared, many of them who worked for American corporations, in factories of American corporations across the border in Mexico, and how the world just did not seem to care about their deaths. what led to that end, the lake late fierce resistance from her dad the illegal tell really powerfully in the pond cas but her huh, during this whole winter time, and you knew, when and found him and were able to arrange a sit down with them, and this was in the middle of the endemic at this point. the day before you leave, if you love this episode, safe bet, you will also love the conversation we had with Samir nasri about food and belonging culture and connection you'll find a link to simeon's episode in the show notes, and of course, if you haven't already done so, please go ahead and follow good life project in your favorite listening app, and if you found this conversation interesting or inspiring or valuable and chances are you did since you're still listening here. Twenty twenty two limited to qualifying purchases exclusions apply not valid on services discount applied in store only before tax shipping and handling canopy, combined with coupons visit ikea dash, usa, dot com, slash family for more details. Chris shares a side of Selena we rarely get to see, and Maria learns about how love was one of the ways Selena charted her own path. Antonia Cereijido is an Award-winning Senior Producer at Futuro Studios, working on developing new narrative podcasts. For Maria, who was raised in El Paso, Texas, and lived and worked on the border for years, Selena was a figure that helped her and many other young girls and women like her find a place in a world where they didn't feel like they belonged. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. On the podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts Show of the Year of 2021, Maria Garca combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor Selena's legacy. was desirable in the main stream and then, of course, her spend this huge evolution since then. No. So the show debuted two weeks ago, and you're going to be dealing with weekly drops for the next few months, but once the show wraps, what's the first thing you're gonna do? In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. When I was in graduate school and I needed some motivation, I would listen to Selena, and I realized that there were all these milestones in my life where she was there. Right? En este episodio Maria le sigue la pista a las razones por las cuales Selena se convirti en smbolo de solidaridad y resistencia mientras conversa con Curly Velasquez de Pero Like. Lately I've been drinking catch up to fuel my day and had been really impressed with the flavour and the texture catch up, It's most nutrient dense meal imaginable it's made with over seventy super foods and nutrients, including things like mockery of chia seeds, such a n g, comer, comer, mucky, berry, I say and coconut. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. And then, now, as an arts and culture editor and critic, putting on my journalism hat and thinking about Selena not just from my heart, but as a journalist, and thinking, I'm not alone. Pero algo cambi su vida. So you you make this moved up to public radio and one of the most iconic public radio stations had been around for a long time where. because I imagine that why was moving all over the place all the time, absolutely. En este episodio, Maria explora cmo la internet se ha convertido en un lugar en el que los fans honran y recuerdan a Selena, y sobrellevan juntos el vaco que dej. We shall television where it's like it falls pray, citizens, you know, especially because it so like you said constrained by like the form and, the time limits. The first. Kristin Torrescomes toAnything for Selenaafter a decade split between radio and academia. This has a deep, deep history of, that, though the relationship and has with blackness, yeah I mean it was interesting to see basely dedicate an entire episode to this conversation cause I was, I was imagining a fairly, limited run of episodes and when you're trying to figure out who. Thank you so much. Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. I mean, she commanded an audience. In the end. NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. So what are the pieces of the story, wanna tell and then what a larger social issues that we really need to dive into the tank, So why are they like? an incredibly vulnerable position to be in that when you have a group of people, you know work shopping, your work in real time. And somebody once told me like, "What you're scared to write about, what makes you the most scared to confront, that's what you should be writing." Este viaje a la poltica de los traseros en Estados Unidos es a fin de cuentas una exploracin de la raza, y nos conduce a una conversacin largamente postergada sobre la anti negritud dentro de la cultura latina. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Marias family was watching, too. In the past, she was a producer on Latino USA,where she focused on stories about media including the scandal around the bookAmerican Dirt, how Dora the Explorer became the most recognized Latina icon in the world, and the stereotype that the Latinx community cries more. Subscribe to the podcast Apple Podcasts Google. Was that always the plan? It's terrifying. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. Warranty right now get a full custom: three d design of your new kitchen at cabinets to go dot, com, slash, good life, that's a free custom, three d, design of your new wow kitchen at cabinets to go dot, com, slash, good life or just click. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. Aprendi castellano a la vista del pblico, y los errores que cometi se convirtieron en algunos de sus momentos ms famosos y entraables. But as an adult, I've come to realize these traumas, or these wounds, that forced assimilation creates in you, they don't just dissipate. Well, let me tell you, the episode after that, after episode 4, is an even deeper dive into race, and Latinidad, and brownness, and Latinos reckoning with their own whiteness, and it's told from a very personal, personal lens. And it mattered a lot for mexican american and let de la girls like me, who were getting mixed messages about whether these features that we. And saying alone, we all get through moments and, only through one right now and it's actually ok to not just keep it to yourself, till I be without the beings and people as you walk that path? And Selena! in television there's this phrase of sort of simplifying the story like break it down to its most ellen, and tell it in the most simplest form, and I realise that deep inside of me, I was craving to do the opposite, and I wanted, complicate the story, and I wanted to look at the most complicated parts of a story, and I wanted to unpack those, I want to tell longer stories I wanted to tell more common, hated stories. Copyright Trustees of Boston University. About his own marriage to Selina and relationships and love and heartbreak, You know what to. [Laughter], ===Excerpt: 2014 Associated Press Interview===. You know, switching at a very young age at and have the vocabulary to know that that's what. Maria explores how the internet has become a place where fans celebrate and remember Selena, as well as grapple with the void she left behind. Shes also a queer chola who listens to Selena when she needs some motivation. The Mel Robbins Podcast: Every episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast is filled with the motivation and tactics you need plus deeply personal stories, relatable topics and tactical, research-backed advice to help you create a better life. are you by the way? The palm, and the fingers at reaching up or research the front page of the rockies and you're just being held you like in the middle of that, and it's not, feeling that I get from being in this town sounds like you're really resonate with as well. Shes been featured on BuzzfeedssAnother Round, SlatesRepresentand the late night talk showDesus & Mero. Boulders surly, its nestled right in the front rank the rockies and often describe it as if he turned your problem, upwards and then you took your fingers and you reach them up. But what I am saying is that I do think, here was this brown woman who celebrated her, nerves. You can check out more episodes at laist.com/servantofpod. Do you feel anxious about any of it? like brand new to me, like, oh my god, I am not going to be with this little human. Maria descubre que es una historia de inmigracin, de dinero y de cmo dos grupos usualmente ignorados fueron enfrentados entre s. But this is a story that has been told so many times, so I wanted to do sort of an anthology. Las ceremonias de premiacin de la msica tejana eran eventos glamorosos y los DJ de estaciones de radio dedicadas al gnero eran vistos como estrellas de rock en Texas y el resto del sudoeste de Estados Unidos. It has also permeated white culture, with Kim Kardashian breaking the internet and butt selfie queen Jen Selter. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether its fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. Maria Garcia Twitter Managing EditorMaria Garcia was WBUR's Managing Editor and the creator of "Anything for Selena. I have to know that this is like a poetic, get into a story and that they're gonna write this red with us and. He co-produces and co-hostsRacist Sandwich, a James Beard Foundation nominated podcast on food, class, race, and gender across the globe. It was kind of, the kennedy assassination for lahti knows it was a massive news, a banned it was, very first time in my life tat, I saw the same news, headline in like an english national network and, mexico national network. Editors Notes: Mexican-American recording artist Selena Quintanilla not only popularized Tejano music to mainstream American audiences, but also helped put Latinos on the map and broke barriers of all kinds before her untimely passing in 1995. En este episodio, Maria analiza por qu la tez morena de Selena es parte crucial del legado de la reina del tex-mex y reflexiona sobre cmo su exploracin de la raza de Selena la condujo a revelaciones acerca de su propia identidad. That's ten percent off at catch of dot com, slash good life debts, I'm curious also when you stepped out into the liquor your early professional life in europe. Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about the singer's humanity. In the series finale of Anything for Selena, Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about La Reinas humanity. have been a feeling that it has to have been passed down. People through your deeply emotional next. 2023 Southern California Public Radio - All Rights Reserved. The "Anything for Selena" podcast explores the cultural influence and legacy of Selena Quintanilla and how she still impacts the Latino culture decades after her death. You know, it felt like these old wounds. you had that realisation said the little we need to shift to differ. On the podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts' Show of the Year of 2021, Maria Garca combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor Selena's legacy. Yeah, I have a large rear, I guess, for the norm, but for me, it's normal, 'cause I grew up. what it means for you. no jailer was in the first person, of course, to have this body types. Servant of Pod is written and hosted by me, Nick Quah. one of the columbia that I have been dancing on the weekend with my mom and my grandma mines you that what is unlike kind of how, p and one of my classmates coming up to man being like or use singing mexican music, and that was the vibe. Donate Anything For Selena. Let us mourn. Whatever side of the border I was on, it felt like the other half of me was missing. You know, things like that. Kristin Torres Twitter Associate ProducerKristin Torres is an associate producer in WBURs podcast unit. On the contrary, she sort of highlighted them. "It has this unforgettable smell when it rains," the voice says. It's interesting also right because you knew your incredible, cancer is virtual dive into anything. Think about where we were as a country in 1995. What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long? NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Maria Garcia, host of "Anything For Selena." The podcast tells the story of Selena Quintanilla's life and Garcia's childhood spent on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. For many people, the kitchen is the heart of the home and it's essential to have a space that really inspires good, cooking and memories in the making. Maria has a theory about how big butts went from taboo to obsession--and it involves Selena and Jennifer Lopez. Her research and reporting explores how politics, history and identity coalesce to create subcultures, folk heroes and pop culture icons. A lot of people have tried, I was storing a lot of people have told pieces of the story. 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