Online, Selenas image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that werent even imaginable when she was still alive. And it's the other side saying--to me, at least, what I hear when I hear that tape--is them saying, "But you're not human." The generations, by somebody else who maybe, has literally protected by a mountain. because what I felt like you are also doing was inviting people in. Tesla. yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. The phone kept ringing. 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. That, it turns out, is the power of authenticity, agency, and legacy. down a pine seen as not desirable, and I saw this shift. The layers that make up her legacy is the foundation for a new podcast " Anything for Selena " coming Jan. 2021 and hosted by journalist and self-proclaimed "Queer Chola Fronteriza" Maria Garcia. It's completely find that is it the nature of the medium? Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for Selena? was desirable in the main stream and then, of course, her spend this huge evolution since then. We're talking about 1994, 1995, right before she died, when she was essentially ascending to Latino royalty. You know, I think, people who see her as a sacred, simple and who love her were able to, dead afire with my own story- and I think bout-, from me to the audience there was powerful because. Was that always the plan? Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. I thought I was really, was moving and powerful and any other I really. yeah I mean I think the episode ear alluding to is episode for which is called big, but politics. I had to imagine like there, There are certain like I need to. Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American popstar had been killed swiftly, violently by the president of her fan club. you know and she celebrated her curls as she own them, and she didn't try to hide them. But this is a story that has been told so many times, so I wanted to do sort of an anthology. La bsqueda de Mara la lleva a Abraham Quintanilla, el padre de Selena Quintanilla. In my regular job, I always tell young reporters: do not abandon the lens from which you're looking at the world. 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. I have cousins and ants in mexico and, of course, my parents living. You know her, artistry was the family business. 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. We miss you here. I think I already am. It was like a scale that I kind of had to unlearn. So I knew that I wanted it to be rooted in the personal, that the only way I could tell the story authentically is if I told it from my lens in the world. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it's fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with . 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. "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. January 16, 2023, 3:41 AM. What. there's thousands of people who cross the border every single day there. Because Black women have this bottom all our lives. Because suddenly--and think about, at the time, where we were in terms of media, right? It's just our time, women with the big booty. If she could ask that question and when it aired, community. but what an amazing experience to be able to do that. It just became like this default behavior, often wonder for folks. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selena's race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. 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. 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. they can show up as authentically myself and more spaces. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. How would we know that a fun is merely a vessel for delivering equity, smoked sausage to your mouth and that there is no shame in being the first to get seconds, good life project is supported by the chamber, so good nutrition. Do they own their lands? Her story has been told on large screen small screens, countless interviews and continues to make an imprint on media and culture, music, that transcends generations and nationality and still maria new. 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. connection with the land. And so it is a story, it does have sort of a beginning, middle and an end, but each episode really takes a deep dive into different topics, different stories, that are all connected together throughout the series. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. 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 mean, she commanded an audience. En el transcurso de su vida, Selena se convirti en un smbolo de esperanza. It was right in the middle of a huge demographic shift. 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. Subscribe to get an email every time this podcast publishes a new episode. 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. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. They would say you know what we really. If you LOVED this episode youll also love the conversations we had with Samin Nosrat about food, belonging, culture and connection. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. These two lies that he used the phrase I guess translate roughly into english, neither from here, nor there then sandwich. No, when we started conceptualizing the series. The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to. 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. You know I had to. You know I did it and jobs, I did it, when I went to my fancy grad school, and it was, I would say my late twenties early thirties that I, to realize. public radio station that both its journalism, We're making this story like these decisions, possibly say, first, I'm gonna share that like this is my lads and its informed by all this, but but also in doing so. Anything For Selena Skip to main content Support WBUR. What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long? and I was listening to colombia s- and I was you know, just absorbing my culture. I couldn't separate myself as a person, from my role as a journalist here and I had to sort of clean with the listeners, and I think that, parts of myself that are scary for me to show you. This season and shop legendary deals at amazon. 00:38:34 - Episode 5. Such a beautiful podcast. I want you to know where I'm coming from Sweden, framing these things are why I'm asking these questions, but, It was also used you effectively say like I'm a character in this story, and, That was the original intention, not that's what. And then when she died, that was amplified astronomically. It's interesting. [Laughter] That's what it is, Nick! Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. I could see her, watching the teleprompter just waiting for me to stop talking ass. 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. She won't be shamed. think that comes out in in the episode a bad, the idea. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. And then in ninety ninety five, the precedent of her fan club. bottom," you just have a bottom that's in proportion. Because again, my heart could not not be here. We're here still talking about her because she had such a stage presence. She was a broadcast journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border for more than a decade. But there were moments, for example, that were, there were some some folks who thought we, too much time on the clear. In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. 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. And so this is my attempt at that. Find out more about Anything for Selena here and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. En este episodio, Maria explora cmo internet se ha convertido en un lugar en el que los fans honran y recuerdan a Selena, y sobrellevan juntos el vaco que dej. NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. Yet conversations where we can go wherever feels right to go and really explore, is, I think, often we don't really think about the limitations of the channel itself, and how that matches or doesn't match with, the way they were personally wire till it, with the work that we're here to do. Today, he heads up the editorial podcast team at Futuro Studios, the original programming division of Futuro Media Group. She was that talented, ass, a little girl and she was-, the time from the time she was twelve years old. Selena Gomez seemingly clapped back at trolls criticizing her body after the 2023 Golden Globes. You neeeeddddd to listen. At Marketplace, Bens reporting was regularly heard onMarketplacewith Kai Ryssdal,The Marketplace Morning Reportwith David Brancaccio,The BBC, and published inThe New York Times. 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. Nearly 30 years ago, Sir-Mix-A-Lots Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) hit the airwaves to the delight and shock of listeners. I knew right away this as this was one of the episodes that I immediately neo. here's, the! And so I think that there was just a natural effervescence, and a natural talent, and she was a disciplined musician, and all of that came across on stage. 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. Maria discovers that it's a story of immigration, money and how two often-ignored groups were pitted against each other. I'm Nick Quah. a beautiful island cap to the way that you share the entire story on that? but not in a way that I feel like it needs to be told that could be told. Now, what it that other person was someone you never actually met? I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. 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. But that was a moment. 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. Tras el debut de la serieSelenaen Netflix, algunos fans sealaron que la cantante haba sido blanqueada en ese show. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. You know, it felt like these old wounds. Sort of like a shared experience between the Latino community and the broader white American communities, basically. 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. 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. 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 I dunno if everyone's affected that way, but I know I certainly am it sounds like you are as well. 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. Can we shorten this down? About The Show: Pero la manifestacin de una guerra cultural oculta luego de su muerte nos revela otra historia. No. heard in the kind of feedback I received. 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. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Anything for Selena is a co-production of the iLab at WBUR and Futuro Studios. 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? Un cuarto de siglo despus de su muerte, Selena est arrasando en internet. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). 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. It was like not a desire, a ball body part two, and I remember noticing this when I was young and how odd it was that, like this feature, can illicit these there. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. Shes been featured on BuzzfeedssAnother Round, SlatesRepresentand the late night talk showDesus & Mero. He is a multimedia producer and journalist based in New York. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. of separate what was going on in my life and yeah, Think that comes through in the episode. 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. The lyrics playfully poked fun at white beauty standards, including a skit at the top of the song in which a seemingly white woman famously says, Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt. 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? You do you, stories woven into this, but it's also there, are exploring along the way, almost like using, her story in your story, as these launching points are not the least of which is, media after her death, even really teat up the question of like, be harmed or raised or not recognise along the way, important conversations that you t up in a very, like that just mention those on the side, but you like now, but actually dedicate a substantial amount of conversation to these. 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. The story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple, though. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? 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. I've never seen anything like that. Do you feel anxious about any of it? Thank you so much for taking time talk to me. regularly every week in every week and moving back and forth between areas and EL paso and curious about that. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. Antonia Cereijido is an Award-winning Senior Producer at Futuro Studios, working on developing new narrative podcasts. I am becoming a part of this, so you're telling your personal story to I'm so curious, certainly how your experiencing you're insertion into this and trying to navigate like where, doing justice to myself, I'm doing justice to the story and am also like. what it means for you. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. So I think journalists are really like their tart, ring positions and tat, sort of stay in the middle and waited. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. It's this beautiful plant in my eyes, it's beautiful this beautiful, assertive brush that grows in the desert. So I thought and they were alike. Now, oh there's more to it, because I see this in the pot cast like it doesn't start there. Nikole Hannah-Jones: Beyond the 1619 Project, 'No Mexicans Allowed:' School Segregation in the Southwest. Aprendi castellano a la vista del pblico, y los errores que cometi se convirtieron en algunos de sus momentos ms famosos y entraables. The western and southern part of the united states, mid nineties when she was in her early. 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 want to ask about a specific scene in the third episode. And it was the very first time that I saw somebody who resembled my community, who resembled my family, who resembled those of us who were in the middle. Let us be human." Whatever side of the border I was on, it felt like the other half of me was missing. After a decade reporting on music for various outlets, he served as Senior Editor on the public radio program Latino USA. And I don't think her legacy has been done justice. on the go so go. Today, the obsession with big butts is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce. There is no such thing as coming to a story from no place at all. Of the way that we see beauty based on celebrity culture, which is certainly a part of that story, so hours, curious about me like what was happening behind that, to say. At Marketplace Ben also conceptualized and launched APMs premier digital-first podcast,Codebreaker, in partnership with Business Insider. 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. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). Maria discovers that the story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple. 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