I grew up. Maria Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. Then of course jailer comes along and eighty ninety seven and play selina and takes that conversation. U s: mexico border: like. connection with the land. Previously Ben was the host of the national daily programMarketplace Techfrom American Public Media and Marketplace, reaching two million listeners around the country. See acast.com/privacy for more information. I smell creosote bush, which is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet. I'm curious whether there were moments where you, folks say like this is what really needs to be, but there was something in your god that was saying now, to all just to give you some some context. You know like one. So like, totally fair. I've never seen anything like that. You know I think this is part of. what I realized that investigating this episode is. Originally from Fresno, California, Kristin is an NPRNext Generation Radioalum who cut her teeth on the NPR Arts Desk, KQED, St. Louis Public Radio, and as an arts journalist in Russia. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. 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. 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. Aprendi castellano a la vista del pblico, y los errores que cometi se convirtieron en algunos de sus momentos ms famosos y entraables. 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. 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. of separate what was going on in my life and yeah, Think that comes through in the episode. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. 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. 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. 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. they can show up as authentically myself and more spaces. His stories have appeared in The FADER,This American Life,Planet Money,NPR News,Studio 360and many other outlets. Sign up free 0:00 0:00 ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Not even. 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. Even The New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. Wait like I love that the core of what I'm doing, but I can't do it in the, I knew that I wanted to keep telling stories. I get this sort of lake anger, deep, the sight of me, you know when I dislike wanna, take off my hopes. Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. 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In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. but what an amazing experience to be able to do that. 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. 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. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. 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. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. I didn't even quite have the understanding, but I I recognise now. You can find more of Juan Diegos work onL.A. TacoandLatino Rebels. 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. You know, it felt like these old wounds. She was 23 years. in that people in fact needs of people to get invited in and and share in this story. and I was really powerful invulnerable that you kind of like said, were putting mister. 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? Add a podcast transcript Use Google Chrome? I think I think you have to share this. If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up to live a good life embrace imperfection embrace? I love hearing perspectives that I didn't consider. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. And Latin women are the same way! Society & Culture English United States TRANSCRIPT Are you the producer of this podcast? 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. 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. But then, something changed her life. I want to ask about a specific scene in the third episode. Maria has a theory about how big butts went from taboo to obsession -- and it involves Selena and Jennifer Lopez. Selena devotees of all ages have turned to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to restore and remix Selenas memory. [Laughter] That's what it is, Nick! Copyright Trustees of Boston University. Do you feel anxious about any of it? I had grown up with and sort of my working class home. They that to the listeners that, like this journey, was Selena that were about to go on it comes from a very specific place. She was that talented, ass, a little girl and she was-, the time from the time she was twelve years old. 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. We're here. There are so many lessons to be learned from leaving a job, no matter what happens after soon learn more about Keith balkans journey exclusively on script, get inspired by, he's broken with quitting today, with a free sixty day trial at try, dot, script, dot, com, slashed g, LP, that's try, dot s e r, I b D, dotcom, slash de LP or just click. yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. Today, the obsession with big butts is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce. 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. Visit Our Sponsor Page For a Complete List of Vanity URLs & Discount Codes. Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. 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 Selena! Original music from the podcast is available now on SoundCloud. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. She became a part of this story, because as you learn, she realized she couldn't not. And then here comes Selena just flipping that narrative around. Es tan grande Es que ella es tan negra! Tres dcadas despus, la obsesin con los traseros grandes en la cultura del hip-hop se mantiene slida gracias a dolos como Cardi B y Beyonc, pero tambin se ha impregnado en la cultura blanca. I have moments where I'm like, why do I do this? "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. And probably cry a lot. 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. Hosted on Acast. 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. because they matter- and this is sort of like It- was interesting to see it was almost like. 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." Nikole Hannah-Jones: Beyond the 1619 Project, 'No Mexicans Allowed:' School Segregation in the Southwest. on the cusp of major major start up. have been a feeling that it has to have been passed down. 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. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. Do they own their lands? I discovered Selena when I was 7 years old. It's almost like here that a dear friend my always is he can't read the label from inside the jar and, at like when the deeper you get into a story, especially one that you are just deeply invested in from my heart and mind and soul level. In my regular job, I always tell young reporters: do not abandon the lens from which you're looking at the world. She was a broadcast journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border for more than a decade. here's, the! And I don't think her legacy has been done justice. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. "I'm a little bit big right now because I enjoyed . 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. Be careful here. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy. 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. Accuracy is not guaranteed. We're gonna try. People through your deeply emotional next. At Marketplace, Bens reporting was regularly heard onMarketplacewith Kai Ryssdal,The Marketplace Morning Reportwith David Brancaccio,The BBC, and published inThe New York Times. 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. 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? April 16, 2021 Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. Servant of Pod is written and hosted by me, Nick Quah. Let me know, women in the nineties suits about twenty two, Given in the intervening when they're like you shared, this was not somebody who was this incredible star and then, when she died, was like a couple years later, people just gonna moved on if anything, her legend has grown and groaning grown for all the reasons that you shared and there's been a, a lot of attention. I mean both the colorado after spending a wife and a different type of mountains. half of them are in EL paso, heavily of their markets, that what is my family was like that? It's just our time, women with the big booty. She was finally ready to do, when english album, and so she was like on the cost of mainstream success. 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. And there's this sort of moment where he's being an asshole about it. to downtown paso. Tejano award I was in kind of a haze when I wrote that. 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. character in the story until we started getting into the editorial conversations, and I started sharing with my editors, sort of like mine, my feelings, roundup episodes and why they meant so much to me, and I had editors who told me like you know. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! That's different and fuller, like prison their mind. March 12, 2021 Tras el debut de la serie Selena en Netflix, algunos fans sealaron que la cantante haba sido "blanqueada" en ese show. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. immediate family and fans, it's also it's your personal style. in television there's this phrase of sort of simplifying the story like break it down to its most ellen, and tell it in the most simplest form, and I realise that deep inside of me, I was craving to do the opposite, and I wanted, complicate the story, and I wanted to look at the most complicated parts of a story, and I wanted to unpack those, I want to tell longer stories I wanted to tell more common, hated stories. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. This is something which is which, So pervasive and culture, and then you saying as a journalist, dive into this. major cities in the u ass, including new york, shiva performed in. 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. I could see her, watching the teleprompter just waiting for me to stop talking ass. She was already a big star in my world, but she was about to become a big star in everyone's worlds. 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. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. Maria confronts the complicated legacy of Abraham Quintanilla, Selena's father, and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. I feel, for Asian-Americans, that that person was Bruce Lee, right? You know like I it's real like, find by so many things, and one of them is my love for Selina and so, was learning not to separate sort of mexican maria from american maria. In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. 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? Pero cuando Selena falleci, la msica tejana pas de la gloria a la decadencia. 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. [Laughter] Why am I writing? 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. Maria discovers that its a story of immigration, money and how two often-ignored groups were pitted against each other. You know my parents saw. You know in, mexico and with my family, my mexican family, curves and. 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