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. Her family, owned a restaurant in corpus, christie, taxes where her father would make her seeing there-, Family soon went bankrupt and lost the restaurant. 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. 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. Because Black women have this bottom all our lives. 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. We got all these messages from people being, re actually at the interviewer like yeah, they were gone. You know that I could build a career out of that and look growing up in a border city, and just being like a casual consumer, both mexican news and american use, I knew that the border was deeply misrepresented and bad it, eyes portrayed as just the sort of like dangerous law, less place that had been extra, did of culture that it was sort of like narco land, and I grew up here, I know that there is way more to this community than the blue, to show like the full spectrum of humanity from this like vibrant place that I'm from my wanted to show that it was more than, really good. So like, totally fair. 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. I feel like I learned to read at the same time that I learned to code switch on either side of the border. When I talk about salinas dad and my own dad, you know. Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for Selena? Aprendi castellano a la vista del pblico, y los errores que cometi se convirtieron en algunos de sus momentos ms famosos y entraables. Thank you! So, Anything for Selena, how I like to describe it to folks, it's like if Dolly Parton's America and California Love had a baby. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. 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. 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. The podcast intertwines Garcia's personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history, and politics to explore the longterm cultural legacy of Selena's life and career. Louis Virtel and Ira Madison III, co-hosts of Keep It chat with Sam about who's being selected and who's being overlooked, and whether the pandemic further exposes awards' irrelevance or not. That is expense. Maria discovers that its a story of immigration, money and how two often-ignored groups were pitted against each other. to downtown paso. And so Anything for Selena is a culmination of, truly, my lifelong quest to understand why Selena, why this working-class woman, has meant so much to me all of my life. 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. Well. Everybody looks at the story they're working on from the place in the world that they occupy. on the cusp of major major start up. Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans. So what I'm hearing is that she's sort of this symbol of that bridge that many non-white Americans have in this country, of being of the two worlds and not being part of either. how telling you the lands that I'm looking at it through, and that is completely shaped by growing up in this. 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. In her life, Selena was a symbol of hope. And this sort of harsh refusal to do that. And so suddenly, her death was a top story in English networks and in Spanish networks--incredibly anomalous for the time. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. And, in todays conversation with award-winning journalist, writer, and producer, Maria Garcia, we dive deep into these topics in a very cool and unusual way. 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. 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. Marias quest takes her to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena Quintanillas notoriously guarded father. 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. emphatically storytelling and again a lot around politics policy and around border town issues. If someone is life and her powerful decision to centre the universality of struggle and joy expression and the complexity of love, relationships and power in the conversation I. so deeply john and a move by this body of work and was so excited to dive into maria's life, the story. Nikole Hannah-Jones: Beyond the 1619 Project, 'No Mexicans Allowed:' School Segregation in the Southwest. 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." The theory involves Selena Quintanilla but also Selena biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and the ensuing Latin Explosion. Is it short forum its? 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. Let us mourn. Even the New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. Showing people like this, nay begins in a place in a place that really shaped me, It brought you in to your senses, also, which I thought was really fallen a, it because it ground you in a different way. I am not saying that selina wizard of this bastion of body positivity big, hers. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. He co-produces and co-hostsRacist Sandwich, a James Beard Foundation nominated podcast on food, class, race, and gender across the globe. 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. ===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.. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. Maria became the driving creative force and on-air host of the stunning podcast series, Anything for Selena, which was named Apple Podcast's Show of the Year of 2021, and produced with Futuro Studios and NPR member station WBUR. out outdoor sit down at happens with you and him and charge tree, Where are you really, sir, like dive into his life and like? Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. heard in the kind of feedback I received. You know when it's this debate over objectivity. I am and texas I've been going back and forth between here and boston for a couple of years, and here making this my home base. 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. 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. Original music from the podcast is available now on SoundCloud. We miss you here. On the contrary, she sort of highlighted them. If she could ask that question and when it aired, community. 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. Sort of like a shared experience between the Latino community and the broader white American communities, basically. down a pine seen as not desirable, and I saw this shift. was desirable in the main stream and then, of course, her spend this huge evolution since then. Why has her being resonated with me so much? Okay, so Maria, can you tell me a little bit more about how Selena went from being a celebrity into becoming an icon? and who are we leaving behind or who are erasing or like is the harm being caused by this beyond. There, we've just been really interesting are learning the skill of coal, switching, even if you didn't have the language or even the awareness that you are doing. This is every kid while, an idea is fit in your leg. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. I kind of figured that that's what you were going to say. But I knew I wanted more space to tell stories, and I knew that I I wanted to do the opposite of simplifying them, said that lead you is, as you share, you end up going back to journalists in school and then, from there, unless I'm missing a step, you end up in Boston. I was growing up on the U.S.-Mexico border. She was born in Ciudad Jurez and was raised there and in El Paso, Texas, where her family immigrated to when she was 3 years old. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. 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. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. the fields- and this is good life project, I brought it is supported by amazon's it's hard to believe, but the hits efficiently getting closer to that time of year, where we can say that the holidays are just around the corner, which means the whirlwind of getting your holiday shopping done on time is probably starting to grow, especially if you really want to show you love with genuinely thoughtful a not last minute gifts. How many of us walk through life were perpetually in the process of reckons, like what a universal experience it that is regardless, process of inquiry and awakening therapy whatever it may be. Marlon Bishop is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer and editor with a focus on Latin America, immigration, identity and society, music and the arts. The media on enough over the years like, on the other side of the mike and being happy one tv segment, and yet the typical three to five minute interview and- and I could I, see the person interior me- this is in before ties in person studio the earthen. Tell them to listen, then, even invite them to talk about what you've both discovered, because when podcasts become conversations and conversations become action, that's how we all come alive together until now. even though that's my passion, that's like the one thing that I know I'm really good at that I know I love, I turned on like my senior year in high school, and I was like I could, stories for a living- and I could tell stories about like my community that, blew my mind. 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. The first. She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. 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. and here was this american pop star, whose unequivocally said they're beautiful. The story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple, though. You speaking to my soul Maria/Mary (therapeutic too)!!! You can check out more episodes at laist.com/servantofpod. I have moments where I'm like, why do I do this? Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered.
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