Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." The show is produced by Andrea Asuaje, James Trout, and John Perotti at Rococo Punch. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. Yeah, but see, I was always correcting her, don't do that. 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. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. Plus,. And that's the gift. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as. Anything For Selena Skip to main content Support WBUR. 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. We're here still talking about her because she had such a stage presence. And then in ninety ninety five, the precedent of her fan club. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! She was like a star in the south west of the united states. 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. Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. The series weaves Marias personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history and politics to explore how, 25 years after her death, Selena remains an unparalleled vessel for understanding Latino identity and American belonging. It was really. 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. Turn on Live Caption for free In my regular job, I always tell young reporters: do not abandon the lens from which you're looking at the world. So I think journalists are really like their tart, ring positions and tat, sort of stay in the middle and waited. And that episode is about the fraught relationship between Latinidad and Blackness, through the lens of Selena. She became a part of this story, because as you learn, she realized she couldn't not. 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. April 16, 2021 Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. or walking around in a man's just knowing that I'm sort of being held close by, and yes, there's something kind of powerful and magical about that. 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. And so we unpack Latinidad, the most modern iteration of Latino identity, from the 90s until now, for the last quarter-century, and we talk about how Selena came to form that identity, and what that identity represents--who it represents now, and who it doesn't. 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. That's what drove me into journalism. I think I think you have to share this. 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. And it's about my theory that there's a direct historical lineage from Selena to the big butt culture of today, 25 years later, and it's a deep look at how we went, as a country, in a quarter-century, from aversion to big butts to obsession with big butts. Maria confronts the complicated legacy of Abraham Quintanilla, Selena's father, and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. Don't spend too much. Twenty is. 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. connection with the land. Un cuarto de siglo despus de su muerte, Selena est arrasando en internet. no, I'm all is curious. Well, what norm? 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. This is every kid while, an idea is fit in your leg. From LAist Studios, this is Servant of Pod. I think a lot of people saw their own story in mine. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. March 10, 2021 Puede ser que Selena haya hecho una carrera cantando temas en espaol, pero no se cri hablando espaol en casa. A lot of people have tried, I was storing a lot of people have told pieces of the story. there too. But I'm here, it's a gift. And so this has the cultural analysis of that, but it's also just a love letter from me to Selena, it is personal. I love that you know because, of the story that you can see from the position in the, of that. body- and she was talking a lot about her by and. She goes, "Well, honey, tell her that if she wants to see a bottom, I'll show her my, bottom." But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. Because suddenly--and think about, at the time, where we were in terms of media, right? About The Show: ===Excerpt: The Howard Stern Show, April 3rd, 1995===, "Let's dance to happy Madonna-like music. an incredibly vulnerable position to be in that when you have a group of people, you know work shopping, your work in real time. you know first generation my family to go to college. 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. 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. Listen to The Mel Robbins Podcast every Monday and Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts. 1997 Chelly thanks you from the bottom of her heart. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. 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 speaking to my soul Maria/Mary (therapeutic too)!!! November 21, 2022 NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. So, even though, were still a bit away from peak holiday season. So I thought and they were alike. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Marias family was watching, too. I kind of figured that that's what you were going to say. A third-generation Mexican-American whose research and quest for belonging took her from the agricultural capital of California to the Ivy League by way of the Midwest and Moscow, Kristin holds advanced degrees in Russian studies from Harvard and the University of Missouri. But then, something changed her life. This week: Maria Garcia's radically personal podcast, Anything for Selena, a love letter to la reina--the queen--Selena Quintanilla. Today, we present episode one of Anything for Selena, a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios. It was the early 1990s and she was 7, watching the Tejano star perform on television. One, I think she was a true artist. 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. American networks and Mexican programming aired the same top story. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. This is such a safe place in part because, the place of immigrants. And, not because Maria or, for that matter, any of those millions, knew Selena, personally, but because what she embodied profoundly affected and informed the way Maria, and those millions, saw themselves, their sense of wholeness, heritage, community, and the call to celebrate uniqueness, and embrace life through a lens of possibility and joy. And what does she mean to you? 2023 Southern California Public Radio - All Rights Reserved. you know and she celebrated her curls as she own them, and she didn't try to hide them. the foundation for that really starts with the place that I was raised and which is on the? We miss you here. 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 for the last year, she's taken on a different role and challenge: podcast host--and yes, my Selena doula. I want there to be a record that really really solidified her leg, see and told us how she changed culture, how she changed music, and I wanted to use my craft ass, story? That's been around for, releases these chemicals. Poverty is often disguised. You know in a more, maybe it's just like an appreciation that is somehow abidjan. Chris shares a side of Selena we rarely get to see, and Maria learns about how romantic love was one of the ways Selena charted her own path. 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. time talking to this guy. what it means for you. You know, I think, so important to have this folks around you, yes, to help reflect back and, and then is also examining what is their lands like? On the one hand, you do you describe how that. lead project is supported by a case of life can feel expensive, but with a key, you can rest easy, knowing your making smart choices while creating your dream home on a budget with new benefits. 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. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. No, when we started conceptualizing the series. 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. It all boiled down, it all manifested, in this horrible, crass radio fight. 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. Travelling. is neither from here nor there take me deeper into what that means. 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 whiteness and language. This was a cultural phenomenon. I couldn't help, but think of me, and when I was talking to her husband about relationships. The first. 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. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. 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. Get the New Yorker. 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. But this is a story that has been told so many times, so I wanted to do sort of an anthology. She became a role model for how Latinos could achieve the American dream and find acceptance. what I realized that investigating this episode is. 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. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. Ben Brock Johnsonis Executive Producer of podcasts for WBUR, where he directs strategic and editorial initiatives involving podcasts and on demand audio. [Laughter]. But what I am saying is that I do think, here was this brown woman who celebrated her, nerves. And Latin women are the same way! Maria descubre que es una historia de inmigracin, de dinero y de cmo dos grupos usualmente ignorados fueron enfrentados entre s. Instead, we tried to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy, she says. 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. Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American popstar had been killed swiftly, violently by the president of her fan club. You know, switching at a very young age at and have the vocabulary to know that that's what. 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. This is something which is which, So pervasive and culture, and then you saying as a journalist, dive into this. They that to the listeners that, like this journey, was Selena that were about to go on it comes from a very specific place. You know my biases, like wit, silly taken about, and so I knew ethically I had to disclose that and that that had, be part of the narrative? Can we shorten this down? Visit Our Sponsor Page For a Complete List of Vanity URLs & Discount Codes. I tall buildings in new york city, there's something so powerful that draws me in to just, even if I'm not out. So this show is really like a part memoir, part reported story. She was already a big star in my world, but she was about to become a big star in everyone's worlds. There still and I grew up. I have. 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. And so coming back to this project has been like a personal reckoning for me, to think about my own place in the world, and to think about my own identity. If she could ask that question and when it aired, community. 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. March 2, 2021 In the series finale of Anything for Selena, Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selena's legacy reveals about La Reina's humanity. it's an episode about the impact that the, way that Selina owned her voluptuous body and celebrated at the way that it-. Here, it's not even the city, it's not necessarily even people. "I'm a little bit big right now because I enjoyed . Have you have to follow your gut, you know, and there were moments when definitely dead, follow my guide and not take. And so honestly, Nick, it's been kind of excruciating, because all of my life, I realized just how much I compartmentalized my work from my internal life--and all of us do that to an extent, right? Online, Selena's image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that weren't even imaginable when she was still alive. InAnything For Selena, Maria goes on an intimate, revelatory quest to understand how Selena has become a potent symbol for tensions around race, class and body politics in the United States. The Latino population grew by 60% between 1990 and 2000, so '95 was right in the middle of it. wanted to start with something like this. Anything for Selena is a co-production of the iLab at WBUR and Futuro Studios. So these are really sensitive, emotional topics that you're tackling here. Journalist Mara Garca initially took notice of her talent when she was only seven years old. Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer And it's more complicated than that. I wanted. 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. Kristin Torres Twitter Associate ProducerKristin Torres is an associate producer in WBURs podcast unit. It's interesting. What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long? What. Let's dance and forget the people starving to death. 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. Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans. Maria Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. She was americans born and, like I said, corpus Christie, so her first language was english. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. The Anything For Selena podcast released earlier this year is a story of how Selena helped shape pop culture and American identity. Shipping is free when your order includes at least twenty five dollars of eligible items, so get a head start on your holiday shopping. In the end. You know, I think, that's when, of a journalist and how much a journalist you know instead, themselves in a story in an authentic way, in a way, that's necessary to the story. selena, laughter, latino, episode, life, story, border, mexican immigrants, world, identity, latinos, grew, died, culture, moment, personal, ascend, bottom, nick, talk, Jennifer Lopez, Abraham Quintanilla, Unknown, Howard Stern, Maria Garcia, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Quivers, Nick Quah, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Fred Norris. I get this sort of lake anger, deep, the sight of me, you know when I dislike wanna, take off my hopes. but not in a way that I feel like it needs to be told that could be told. I think that's what I'm going to do. Not even. 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. 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. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Is it short forum its? Incluso el New York Times lo catalog el gnero latino de ms rpido crecimiento del pas. 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. Have you ever been so deeply affected by another person that their story literally gives your life context and meaning and even a sense of belonging? Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. on the go so go. Why did I choose this? Thank you so much for having me. 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. En el final de la serie Anything for Selena, Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. In this episode, 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. dignan annette, like it attached. 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. Whatever side of the border I was on, it felt like the other half of me was missing. For Selina, it starts out not with this story like, a person by the start out with a moment that really taps into the land it, yeah, you know when I was thinking how do I start this journey, discovery because to learn about Selina way as to learn about myself, because I, Let me now and young women in this country do and that. 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. Selena Gomez seemingly clapped back at trolls criticizing her body after the 2023 Golden Globes. Huge incident. Ok, I think you ready for this, but I want, Through cereal eyes, storytelling for those who don't know who we're talking about when I, much of the world when you literally just use that first aim selina knows, but for those who don't, Maybe a little bit more about this person was, Eight, the handle singer from corpus christie, taxes the hanno is like. In her life, Selena was a symbol of hope. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. 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 and you're their reading it, I remember there- were there were moments where I believe, in journalism like. as a journalist I had to disclose where I was coming. 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? Look, her talent and her discipline as a musician, as an artist who cared about her craft, who was meticulous about her craft; that is the main reason. 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. I feelings around that had really about you, know, taken some time to think about journalism without practising it. Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. Pero la manifestacin de una guerra cultural oculta luego de su muerte nos revela otra historia. feeling around how much a journalist inserts themselves are not had a really evolved from coming from you know. 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. [Laughter]. It just became like this default behavior, often wonder for folks. ===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.. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. That that's what was going on is that from very early on five six, seven, eight years old, I was learning to be married in the states and.