This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. Shipping is free when your order includes at least twenty five dollars of eligible items, so get a head start on your holiday shopping. Subscribe to the podcast Apple Podcasts Google. It was right in the middle of a huge demographic shift. What's let's latch onto stories and actually go deeper, let's go where we need to go. move the story, and you cover some different topics in such a beautiful, powerful story, driven way. think that comes out in in the episode a bad, the idea. But it's also often the first step on a path to freedom and in the new memoir quitting why I left my job to live a life of freedom, former white house, aide political commentator and bt personality. The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison. Hosted on Acast. Selena was on the other side of the border, Selena had been afforded a whole new life, but at the end of the day, there was this disregard--the same disregard--for her life, too. ", "Let's burn our [indecipherable] with these peppers.". what I realized that investigating this episode is. And how do you work through stuff like that? history and the states and pop music and sort of getting everything. En el episodio de estreno de Anything for Selena, la conductora Mara Garca explora cmo Selena ayud a Mara a encontrar su propio lugar en el mundo. 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. 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. You speaking to my soul Maria/Mary (therapeutic too)!!! 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. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." You know my parents saw. And it's a sort of that friction that has stuck with me the most, that sequence where Howard Stern is glibly responding to Selena's death, right? You know what I mean? 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. Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for Selena? Society & Culture English United States TRANSCRIPT Are you the producer of this podcast? It comes from a very specific lands. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. Mara confronta el legado complicado de Abraham y reflexiona sobre la paternidad en las culturas Latinx. happening. It had been made dream to do a podcast about selina for years. 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. You know in, mexico and with my family, my mexican family, curves and. I could see her, watching the teleprompter just waiting for me to stop talking ass. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. For I key of family members, you can create a home, you love and save so whether you're looking for new faulty core ord entire bedroom set make sure you receive all the savings you can buy. From here or there you ve come to a place where it sounds like you feel, like you have a sense of, dual belonging almost like, but it does sound like as a kid like and look. At Marketplace Ben also conceptualized and launched APMs premier digital-first podcast,Codebreaker, in partnership with Business Insider. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. Not even. 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. Tesla. Here, it's not even the city, it's not necessarily even people. 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. 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. Sus seguidores de todas las edades han recurrido a Instagram, TikTok y YouTube para restaurar y presentar de nuevas formas la memoria de Selena. I was 9 when she died, 11 when the movie came out, and throughout all of my life, and these different milestones, I've come to realize now, as a 35-year-old, that Selena has been there all along, whether it was the last time I danced with my father, it was to a Selena song, before he died. was constantly crossing the border? The creators of Anything for Selena take listeners behind the scenes for a look at the making of the podcast. LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), a member-supported public media network. Into these topics in very cool and unusual way through the lens of the life of the iconic performer silly, kinda near and the impact she had not just on marine life, but on tens of millions around the world even decades after her tragic passing at a young age and also not because Maria or for that matter, any of those millions new silly that personally, but because, that is an informed the way maria and those millions saw themselves, their sense of homeless heritage community and the call to celebrate uniqueness and amber. And probably cry a lot. In my regular job, I always tell young reporters: do not abandon the lens from which you're looking at the world. But then, something changed her life. So you be, the character and the story, and I'm so curious about this, because the coming, really drummed ensuing journalism like you are my story like the your job is to be as currently unbiased down the middle as you possibly can be, and then you're working in a very well established. I smell creosote bush, which is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet. Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer player of his generation, but there's one dream he's never achieved: winning a World Cup for Argentina, the country he left decades ago. When he was granted DACA, he was able to intern for Oregon Public Broadcasting as a production assistant for OPBsState of Wonderand OPBsWeekend Edition. sent one him over, but also how it brought it brings up you're really. [Laughter]. "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. Selena devotees of all ages have turned to Instagram, TikTok and Youtube to restore and remix Selena's memory. It's interesting also right because you knew your incredible, cancer is virtual dive into anything. Now, it's completely save to be mexican now in certain in all settings that you want to be in you don't have to, camouflage yourself anymore, to stay, save and its. Keith boykin shares how leaving his job open the door to his personal freedom and success. You know, as a white male perspective or a prospect, That's that often comes from the position of being white and mail in this country, and I, do want to say in this conversation that its very important to point out that, lead, reporting like there is something about about like the objectivity of your process. Episodio 1: Selena y Yo (Espaol) 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. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. In this episode, Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans who also struggled with the language of their heritage. I couldn't help, but think of me, and when I was talking to her husband about relationships. Instead, we tried to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy, she says. We're gonna try. [Laughter]. Plus,. I couldnt articulate this when I was younger, but I felt ita profound sense that she mattered, not just because of her music but because of her expansive cultural impact, Garca tells Apple Podcasts. I wanted to get into like the nitty gritty of staff, and so I, out of the television medium and that's why, I mean it such an interesting shift to me, years ago. Teller, to pay homage to this woman who left such a tremendous impact on my life? it's really a story about belonging, which we all need Maura. 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? En lnea, la imagen y la msica de Selena han adquirido nueva vida en redes sociales y plataformas que eran inimaginables cuando ella an viva. March 10, 2021 Puede ser que Selena haya hecho una carrera cantando temas en espaol, pero no se cri hablando espaol en casa. She started getting a little thing. A couple months later, it sounds like certainly back and saying you know, it was actually married and the story of like. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selenas brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selenas race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. And when I was reporting it, I couldn't not think about my own father, who died in a tragic accident a year before I started this project, and I had just sort of drowned myself in work after his passing. 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? feeling around how much a journalist inserts themselves are not had a really evolved from coming from you know. You neeeeddddd to listen. And so this is my attempt at that. Nikole Hannah-Jones: Beyond the 1619 Project, 'No Mexicans Allowed:' School Segregation in the Southwest. So why is Selena still relevant 25 years after her death? Maria confronts the complicated legacy of Abraham Quintanilla, Selena's father, and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. As you said, it is Mexican-Americans just saying like, "Hey, we're here and you're hurting us. And this project forced me to do that. 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. Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy. how she changed culture, how she changed music, what her role was in the world and, I was just really hungry for that to exist and, I thought. The story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple, though. In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. She was americans born and, like I said, corpus Christie, so her first language was english. In fact, it's sort of disk up. So I don't think that would be controlling. You know her, artistry was the family business. only twenty years. It was so him. 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. I had grown up with and sort of my working class home. She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. on the cusp of major major start up. dignan annette, like it attached. Yeah. I love hearing perspectives that I didn't consider. are you by the way? Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. Is someone who also left behind a high stakes law career for something new? So incredibly, in the twenty seven years since salinas death, her legend, only grown. because I imagine that why was moving all over the place all the time, absolutely. It has also permeated white culture, with Kim Kardashian breaking the internet and butt selfie queen Jen Selter. But I realized how much I did it at the cost of not confronting pain, and drowning myself in work to sort of not confront these very personal, emotional battles that were going on inside of me. bottom," you just have a bottom that's in proportion. The story of Tejanos decline isnt so simple, though. It all boiled down, it all manifested, in this horrible, crass radio fight. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. like a year when I did when I did my masters to just think deep, headline and being like an everyday practitioner about so I had, much of what we think of as unbiased journalism. Yeah, but see, I was always correcting her, don't do that. 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. We got all these messages from people being, re actually at the interviewer like yeah, they were gone. heard in the kind of feedback I received. La bsqueda de Mara la lleva a Abraham Quintanilla, el padre de Selena Quintanilla. Do you feel anxious about any of it? and experiences that led her into telling stories shining lights in championing ideas and ideals that matter to her and her community maria opens up about all of the above, as well as the intimate process of the unique story telling that took place in the creation of this pot guessers and takes me through the before and aftermath of, creating and launching anything for selina assessing the ways at it really transformed her and hopefully, whoever is turning it so excited to share this conversation with you, I'm gonna. Maria Garcia is the Senior Editor of Arts and Culture at WBUR, where she leads The ARTery, overseeing a team of arts writers, reporters and cultural critics. Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. 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. It was really. 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. That's been around for, releases these chemicals. 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. I spent my early life in Mexico on the weekends and in the States during the week, and so I really came into consciousness very aware--hyper-aware--of the duality within me. sound, didn't you read the narrations end it. to write a love letter to her through serialized storytelling, So have you ever been so deeply affected by another person that their story literally gives your life context and meaning, and even a cent, the person was someone you never actually met and what, if they ve been gone from the planet for more than two, five years, but still it was like they were present in your life, guiding and inspiring you every day, while the. you know first generation my family to go to college. That's what drove me into journalism. I'm just so grateful that I get this opportunity to tell her story, to write her this ode, and to explore myself in the process. [Laughter] "Now that's a bottom." you had that realisation said the little we need to shift to differ. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. In the end. It's my heart, in a podcast. Oh, my gosh, there are so many reasons, Nick. Society & Culture Anything for Selena From WBUR Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. I kind of figured that that's what you were going to say. Is you can get the gifts quick and fast, with free shipping, prime customers get unlimited free to day shipping on eligible items and for everyone else. I feel like I learned to read at the same time that I learned to code switch on either side of the border. 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. This is every kid while, an idea is fit in your leg. here's, the! Puede ser que Selena haya hecho una carrera cantando temas en espaol, pero no se cri hablando espaol en casa. February 23, 2021 After the premiere of Selena: The Series on Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been "whitewashed" in the show. 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? This episode was recorded live during a virtual event with WBUR Cityspace. That I saw somebody like that ascend in American society, and ascend in a way that was still connected to her roots, ascend without compromise, and that was incredibly moving for me, and it stayed with me. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. "And we do that by using the tools of our craft as journalists, like rigorous journalism, cultural analysis, but then also, very intimate, vulnerable storytelling. She's been this touchstone in my life that I come back to when I need to feel grounded. 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. then they went into music full time and from the young age of like eight or nine years old selina bears a singer became the breadwinner for her family. of separate what was going on in my life and yeah, Think that comes through in the episode. That's the gift of creative work, and I'm so thankful for it. As an undocumented immigrant for over 20 years, Juan Diego decided to focus his works on communities that reflect him. From LAist Studios, this is Servant of Pod. But I'm here, it's a gift. She was somebody who I think, the, first form of authentic representation. Web design by Andy Cheatwood and the digital and marketing teams at Southern California Public Radio. La teora, por supuesto, tiene que ver con Selena Quintanilla, pero tambin con la pelcula Selena, protagonizada por Jennifer Lopez, y la subsiguiente explosin latina. Because suddenly--and think about, at the time, where we were in terms of media, right? If she could ask that question and when it aired, community. Maria descubre que es una historia de inmigracin, de dinero y de cmo dos grupos usualmente ignorados fueron enfrentados entre s. On the other hand, it has its limitations, and it excludes people. Through the lens of the life of iconic performer, Selena Quintanilla, and the impact she had not just on Marias life, but on tens of millions around the world, even decades after her tragic passing at a young age. but not in a way that I feel like it needs to be told that could be told. I think it's super cool, how their mission is to bring together the world's best superfoods, into a single ready to go meal to help busy people stay healthy. On the one hand, you do you describe how that. You know how much of themselves do they bring? I'm Nick Quah. On the 26th anniversary of Selena's tragic death, Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. 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. And then when I was reporting on the story and spending time with Abraham, and talking to Abraham, I couldn't not deal with my own personal pain because I was thinking a lot and writing about Latino fatherhood, and about the relationship of Latino daughters and Latino fathers, and about the stereotypes and the narratives we tell ourselves about those relationships. not a ninety. On her podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts Show of the Year of 2021, Garca, who most recently served as Managing Editor for Boston public radio station WBUR, combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor her legacy. And this podcast has given me the gift--the gift--of navigating my own pain, navigating these very scary questions about my own identity, and yeah, no, it's horrifying. because they matter- and this is sort of like It- was interesting to see it was almost like. 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. Would you do me a personal favor, a seven second favorite and share it, maybe on social or by text or by email, just with one person just copy the link from the app you're using and tell those you know those you love those you want to help navigate this thing called life a little better, so we can all do it better together with more ease and more joy. There's a lot of Selena stuff out there, there's a lot of Selena content, but there's nothing that really unpacks how she changed culture, what she's responsible for, the cultural shifts that she's responsible for. So it's so interesting to me that. Se transform en el modelo a seguir de cmo alcanzar la aceptacin dentro del sueo americano para todos los Latinos. Today, he heads up the editorial podcast team at Futuro Studios, the original programming division of Futuro Media Group. So, building on that, what did she mean to the culture? You can find more of Juan Diegos work onL.A. TacoandLatino Rebels. I didn't expect to be. You know, it felt like these old wounds. And I feel like in that sequence, in that moment, in that interaction, the entirety of white/non-white relations in America was sort of bottled into that, which is that the fight is just like, understand where we're coming from. But for the last year, she's taken on a different role and challenge: podcast host--and yes, my Selena doula. no jailer was in the first person, of course, to have this body types. new that was the first step and getting it right is just being. Exactly! I'm curious as to why you decided to attend to that moment, Howard Stern as the avatar of that kind of friction in that episode. Maria confronts his complicated legacy and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. the attention and the praise that jailer dead, and I wanted to investigate why and- and I really. April 16, 2021 Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. But then, something changed her life. Copyright Trustees of Boston University. Thank you so much for taking time talk to me. Ultimately, this journey into U.S. booty politics is about race and brings us to a conversation thats long been overdue about anti-blackness within the Latinx community. I knew right away this as this was one of the episodes that I immediately neo. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. 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. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. Thank you! Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer Maria Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. I thought there was a really interesting moment also at the very end you added in a couple of bonus episodes, one of them being. And Selena helped change that. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). She discovered Selena the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. I really appreciate it. Twenty is. But there were moments, for example, that were, there were some some folks who thought we, too much time on the clear.