Have you have to follow your gut, you know, and there were moments when definitely dead, follow my guide and not take. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. I was writing the episode. Selena Quintanilla was known as the "Queen Of Tejano Music," a major Latin star who was crossing over into the mainstream U.S. pop world when she was shot and killed in 1995. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. Yeah, and so I don't want to give it all away, but [Laughter] In the podcast, we argue that Selena--her image, her likeness--has become this shorthand for an entire American experience, for Latino identity. The phone kept ringing. The book highlights living on your own terms by not just, jobs, but also changing cities even leaving relationships that don't serve you anymore, I can we lay two elements of this story. The show is produced by Andrea Asuaje, James Trout, and John Perotti at Rococo Punch. It's terrifying. You know my parents saw. on the cusp of major major start up. but what an amazing experience to be able to do that. 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. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. 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. On the other hand, it has its limitations, and it excludes people. And it felt like these two parts of myself were divorced from each other. 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. Anything For Selena Skip to main content Support WBUR. In particular, you know I've evolved a bet, I've come to realise that it's not it's, not that I am not, along a little bit and both but growing up. When I talk about salinas dad and my own dad, you know. The link in the show notes, the good life project is supported by a script so between the great resignation, quiet quitting and all these trends. new that was the first step and getting it right is just being. And Selena helped change that. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. I tall buildings in new york city, there's something so powerful that draws me in to just, even if I'm not out. You can find Maria at: Instagram | Websites. 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. Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. [Laughter]. [Laughter] I've been wanting to go to Joshua Tree--Selena recorded one of her last videos there, "Amor Prohibido"--and I think I'm just gonna disconnect a little bit, and look inward, and take a rest. Yeah, I have a large rear, I guess, for the norm, but for me, it's normal, 'cause I grew up. the states there were new immigrants here. public radio has its reputation of life. In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. Was that always the plan? sent one him over, but also how it brought it brings up you're really. 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. Okay, so Maria, can you tell me a little bit more about how Selena went from being a celebrity into becoming an icon? move the story, and you cover some different topics in such a beautiful, powerful story, driven way. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. 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. ===Excerpt: The Howard Stern Show, April 3rd, 1995===, "Let's dance to happy Madonna-like music. Hosted on Acast. 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. You know- and I say this in the park ass, its other stuff found a nature like such, We need to start off with that. 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, but see, I was always correcting her, don't do that. Her research and reporting explores how politics, history and identity coalesce to create subcultures, folk heroes and pop culture icons. I couldn't help, but think of me, and when I was talking to her husband about relationships. Is someone who also left behind a high stakes law career for something new? There was more to be told she wanted to go deeper, to ask questions, explore issues and talk to people that had remained in the shadows for decades, then tell their fuller story: the real story, in a way that allowed all of us to step into it and learn from it and in no small way reconnect to ourselves and those around us summary. No credit card needed. No, definitely, in a powerful way, and there was this one line that is shared in it and that stay with me receive dismay, the pain of ending, a relationship that feels like I'm reconciling a relationship with myself yeah, I just felt like that last part of it. You know lake marie, with my audience from the beginning and let them know like the person who is telling you this story, This is somebody who's coming from a very personal place, that's why I started the podcast with the creosote bush. I feelings around that had really about you, know, taken some time to think about journalism without practising it. These two lies that he used the phrase I guess translate roughly into english, neither from here, nor there then sandwich. the fuller narrative of this entire series becomes it's like it's not just the story of this. So if your kitchen makes you feel less than excited about cooking or inviting company over visit cabinets to go dot com to request their free custom, three d design and quote for a kitchen make over as seen on hgtv dream home cabinets to go dot com is your one: stop renovation destination, they have everything you need from design to installation and with two hundred thousand cap and it's available and ready to ship. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! Al crecer a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Mxico, Mara Garca se sinti dividida entre sus dos identidades como mexicana y sstadounidense. The generations, by somebody else who maybe, has literally protected by a mountain. Accuracy is not guaranteed. In my regular job, I always tell young reporters: do not abandon the lens from which you're looking at the world. And how do you work through stuff like that? The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not . In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. En este episodio, Mara Garca comparte su teora sobre cmo los traseros grandes pasaron de ser un tab entre las chicas blancas a una obsesin generalizada. I didn't expect to be. You feel like you're accepted by wherever you are for you. We're talking about 1994, 1995, right before she died, when she was essentially ascending to Latino royalty. Everybody always says, "She has a big. "She had this . ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. We're here still talking about her because she had such a stage presence. He is a multimedia producer and journalist based in New York. And so I knew that I had to bring the personal, the authentic--and I don't take over the story, but I'm definitely with you on this journey, or you're with me on this journey. But, for example, episode 4 is about the mainstreaming of big butts and big butt culture. I had to imagine like there, There are certain like I need to. Anything For Selena | Podcast on Spotify Sign up Log in Home Search Your Library Create Playlist Liked Songs Cookies Privacy Preview of Spotify Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. U s: mexico border: like. From you know that I loved certainly now that this was not an unbiased account of her legacy. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. Huge incident. And then in ninety ninety five, the precedent of her fan club. Then of course jailer comes along and eighty ninety seven and play selina and takes that conversation. Thank you so much for taking time talk to me. But then, something changed her life. I like it and sometimes challenging lake experienced trying to figure out. only twenty years. The western and southern part of the united states, mid nineties when she was in her early. Instead, it starts on the U.S.-Mexico border, with a narrator describing the creosote plants that grow there in vivid sensory terms. Travelling. As a person moving through the world and experiencing culture, I only have sort of a very mild understanding of Selena--as an icon, as a creator, as an artist, as a celebrity--and so, when I listened to the early episodes, in many ways that was my first introduction to Selena the figure--the historical figure, almost. Let us mourn. They would say you know what we really. After a decade reporting on music for various outlets, he served as Senior Editor on the public radio program Latino USA. Teller, to pay homage to this woman who left such a tremendous impact on my life? She was finally ready to do, when english album, and so she was like on the cost of mainstream success. It's terrifying. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. I'm Nick Quah. ethically and me now, I'm not sure, but I know there's something deep, therefore assure them. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. Mara sabe que para entender verdaderamente a Selena como persona y no solo como un cono, necesita ir a Corpus Christi. by just that's what the container allows for, but. And it's like all of these feelings among Mexican immigrants, and Mexican-Americans, and the white mainstream, can pretty much be be unpacked in that conversation. It was the early 1990s and she was 7, watching the Tejano star perform on television. Hear our news on-air at our partner site: Selena Quintanilla is a cultural icon for many, but for Maria Garcia, she's much more than that. You emotionally and part of part of the color in the text. I was still very much holding on to my parents, culture. I need to trust and rely on and open to, like the point of view of other people and. I said we have to do in a sword about, a that she celebrated her body and what that did for, culture because I saw it in my lifetime lake ice, having parties with my big mexican family in mexico and, with my american friends in the states during the week, In the way voluptuous bodies were treated in different contexts. Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about the singer's humanity. Many people are making a shift toward more meaningful work that is aligned with their values and that's often an uncomfortable and messy process. And then when I heard the tape, as a grown woman, when I heard him talk about this woman whom I have been loving, who has become a sort of cultural deity, who has become this way home for so many of us, this sacred symbol, when I heard him talk about her the way he did, it was so cutting. to downtown paso. 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. So why is Selena still relevant 25 years after her death? That's why, 25 years later, we are still so attached to her, because there is a hunger to see Latino joy, Latino effervescence--and in her case, brown pride, brown joy--there is a hunger to see that because there's not enough of it. imagining the series. You know, identity. That, it turns out, is the power of authenticity, agency, and legacy. A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. About The Show:
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