He co-produces and co-hostsRacist Sandwich, a James Beard Foundation nominated podcast on food, class, race, and gender across the globe. Selena es usualmente descrita como la reina de la msica tejana. En la dcada de 1990, fue ella quien elev este gnero del pueblo a niveles internacionales. 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. February 16, 2021 A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. Kristin Torres Twitter Associate ProducerKristin Torres is an associate producer in WBURs podcast unit. Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. You know, but really that was sort of the spark that led to this, wider change in the mainstream culture and. Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena,"a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. I want to unpack that personal side a little more. A lot of people have told it the way that they wanted it taught. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to. 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. I want to ask about a specific scene in the third episode. imagining the series. I smell creosote bush, which is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet. It's my heart, in a podcast. But I'm here, it's a gift. She was 23 years. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. She became a role model for how Latinos could achieve the American dream and find acceptance. Thank you so much for taking time talk to me. And that's the gift. The phone kept ringing. only twenty years. 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. She was a broadcast journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border for more than a decade. Logo and branding by Leo G. Thanks to the team at LAist Studios, including Kristen Hayford, Taylor Coffman, Kristen Muller, and Leo G. Servant of Pod is a production of LAist Studios. La bsqueda de Mara la lleva a Abraham Quintanilla, el padre de Selena Quintanilla. The creators of Anything for Selena take listeners behind the scenes for a look at the making of the podcast. I have moments where I'm like, why do I do this? Transcript 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. I like it and sometimes challenging lake experienced trying to figure out. No, when we started conceptualizing the series. Or at least, "You don't deserve the right to mourn," the right to be, as humans do. wanted to start with something like this. Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. I'm cure, was on one side, but it was almost like a like you're living. there's thousands of people who cross the border every single day there. Became the driving creative force and on air host of these stunning podcast series anything for Selina, which was named, apple pod cache of the year and twenty twenty one and produce with, two Torah studios and npr member station, w b you are, and for the first time in her fifteen plus years in journalism, she did something that broke one of the fundamental rules of reporting. You know what I mean? You know- and I was, really passionate about that, and that's why I stayed you, practicing journalism fur for over ten years here, because I was so passionate about, the stories of my community and I felt this huge responsibility, and I thought, really passion about telling the stories of the border, but I felt this, happened, is you know I started off in commercial television. She had the charisma that really only very, very, very few of us have. 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. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as. 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. connection with the land. It comes down to. A lot of people have tried, I was storing a lot of people have told pieces of the story. 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. As you said, it is Mexican-Americans just saying like, "Hey, we're here and you're hurting us. One, I think she was a true artist. 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. he felt and how it was really moving. 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. And I don't think I'm alone. It's terrifying. 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. So I don't think that would be controlling. So, even though, were still a bit away from peak holiday season. 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. Instead, it starts on the U.S.-Mexico border, with a narrator describing the creosote plants that grow there in vivid sensory terms. So incredibly, in the twenty seven years since salinas death, her legend, only grown. [Laughter] I've been wanting to go to Joshua Tree--Selena recorded one of her last videos there, "Amor Prohibido"--and I think I'm just gonna disconnect a little bit, and look inward, and take a rest. I was still very much holding on to my parents, culture. En este episodio, Maria analiza por qu la tez morena de Selena es parte crucial del legado de la reina del tex-mex y reflexiona sobre cmo su exploracin de la raza de Selena la condujo a revelaciones acerca de su propia identidad. You know like regionally known when she was twelve or thirteen. 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. Online, Selenas image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that werent even imaginable when she was still alive. 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. All the time like I'm going to have to share him. It's just our time, women with the big booty. I didn't even quite have the understanding, but I I recognise now. the day before you leave, if you love this episode, safe bet, you will also love the conversation we had with Samir nasri about food and belonging culture and connection you'll find a link to simeon's episode in the show notes, and of course, if you haven't already done so, please go ahead and follow good life project in your favorite listening app, and if you found this conversation interesting or inspiring or valuable and chances are you did since you're still listening here. Because again, my heart could not not be here. Plus,. but not in a way that I feel like it needs to be told that could be told. 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. Now, what it that other person was someone you never actually met? ===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.. no jailer was in the first person, of course, to have this body types. What's what, at things been, wait for him and also what was his lands on, what life is like, He becomes really vulnerable and open in a way that sounds like you. Society & Culture English United States TRANSCRIPT Are you the producer of this podcast? by just that's what the container allows for, but. 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. 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. I didn't expect to be. 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. In the end, its really a story about belonging, which we all need more of. Don't spend too much. About his own marriage to Selina and relationships and love and heartbreak, You know what to. 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. This episode was recorded live during a virtual event with WBUR Cityspace. You know, switching at a very young age at and have the vocabulary to know that that's what. 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. I have cousins and ants in mexico and, of course, my parents living. But there were moments, for example, that were, there were some some folks who thought we, too much time on the clear. I get this sort of lake anger, deep, the sight of me, you know when I dislike wanna, take off my hopes. I mean, I don't mean to exclude you, Nick. like brand new to me, like, oh my god, I am not going to be with this little human. And so this is my attempt at that. 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 Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. 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. Sort of standard american education in the states, but in mexico. The Latino population grew by 60% between 1990 and 2000, so '95 was right in the middle of it. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. We think that your perspective, Lee enhances the storytelling here or really, sharpness, who are able to bring you back, edit you I'll when necessary, always in service of the story, those who are able to hold your story with gentleness and love, but still, when you are necessary in the story and when you are not to have that team to have people with that perspective in that. in a very lucky, no community, but this was in the nine days when assimilation was very, very, very praised, so, even though it was largely let tee no community, the assimilated, kids and the white kids were sort of at the top of the school hierarchy and there was a sort of shame in being exe. This season and shop legendary deals at amazon. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. 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. Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy. "She had this . So I know we're talking to a podcast audience, so let me [Laughter] Let me put it in terms of let me put it in podcast language. 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. Many people are making a shift toward more meaningful work that is aligned with their values and that's often an uncomfortable and messy process. She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. Have you have to follow your gut, you know, and there were moments when definitely dead, follow my guide and not take. U permanent residents of the snake table for without you. They stay with you, and they inform the career paths you take, and they inform the relationships you build. are ok because I'm close to this mountain. I think that's what I'm going to do. I, like you, just described that that second, that the said where you're talking about, the role of her dad. Though she sees the show as a personal journey to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy, Garca felt it was important to make sense of how she profoundly touched the hearts and minds of many. Add a podcast transcript Use Google Chrome? 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. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. 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. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. 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. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. She was already a big star in my world, but she was about to become a big star in everyone's worlds. Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer Weren't expect, struggles that he had in his relationship, ending of your own relationship and again you brought everything to the market, in a really powerful way, and I was curious- why, You know I haven't been able to go back and listen to that vote, It was a moment where I was trying to rebuild my life after my relationship of seven years had, and I was trying to figure out how to establish like a healthy co parenting relationship with the fire, He and I had inflicted some trouble on each other and, and it was just like a really trying time, here was a universe, giving me this opportunity to speak to Chris better. Do you remember that some shore and like ninety seven, ninety eight mainstream media, every magazine, every television show every late night show was talking about jailer? and I was really powerful invulnerable that you kind of like said, were putting mister. Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. And Selena helped change that. She was americans born and, like I said, corpus Christie, so her first language was english. She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. Oh, my gosh, there are so many reasons, Nick. They would say you know what we really. That's different and fuller, like prison their mind. Sin embargo, la historia de su declive no es tan sencilla. I I dunno if everyone's affected that way, but I know I certainly am it sounds like you are as well. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. 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. 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. Travelling. in our conversation, which I've enjoyed so much so in this container of the good life project. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena," a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. Everybody looks at the story they're working on from the place in the world that they occupy. 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. Do you feel anxious about any of it? The story of Tejanos decline isnt so simple, though. 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. Not even. 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. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. 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. Thank you! And then when she died, that was amplified astronomically. But for the last year, she's taken on a different role and challenge: podcast host--and yes, my Selena doula. 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. You know, identity. the fuller narrative of this entire series becomes it's like it's not just the story of this. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. Ok, let's dive into this conversation, you know-. 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 example, episode 4 is about the mainstreaming of big butts and big butt culture. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. It's such a part of my life, I'm always trying different recipes and supplements. It's completely find that is it the nature of the medium? She was finally ready to do, when english album, and so she was like on the cost of mainstream success. La letra se burlaba juguetonamente de los estndares de belleza blanca, incluyendo una stira al inicio de la cancin en la que una mujer aparentemente blanca le dice a su amiga: Dios mo, Becky, mira su trasero! Today, we present episode one of Anything for Selena, a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios. But this is a story that has been told so many times, so I wanted to do sort of an anthology. This is every kid while, an idea is fit in your leg. You know. 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. And how do you work through stuff like that? In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. She holds a Masters Degree in Arts and Culture Journalism from Columbia Journalism School. 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. Maria Garcia Twitter Managing EditorMaria Garcia was WBUR's Managing Editor and the creator of "Anything for Selena. About The Show: as a journalist I had to disclose where I was coming. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. On March 31, 1995, nine-year-old Maria Garcia came home to find her mother glued to the TV, tears rolling down her rosy cheeks. Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. holding me and protecting me in some way and justice feeling that I have, and I think it has to. It was really. Was that always the plan? Anything For Selena on Apple Podcasts 23 episodes 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 reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about the singer's humanity. And Latin women are the same way! sound, didn't you read the narrations end it. How would we know that a great smoked sausage can be even thrice in one day and that you can take your lunch break before noon, Here's to you agreed smoked sausage. Web design by Andy Cheatwood and the digital and marketing teams at Southern California Public Radio. that the story was just about, like oh mainstream b, The ideals changed because Selina had a big, bad and jailer played her, then, J low ushered in this revolution of big buds and that's the story. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. You develop that as a, but also sometimes keeps part of your identity from showing up. But also, do you think that relationship between white and non-white culture has changed at all since that moment in the 90s? Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for 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. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. All around text says, he started when she was a. 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? And so this has the cultural analysis of that, but it's also just a love letter from me to Selena, it is personal. 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. Copyright 2022 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Incluso el New York Times lo catalog el gnero latino de ms rpido crecimiento del pas. Marias quest takes her to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena Quintanillas notoriously guarded father. because I imagine that why was moving all over the place all the time, absolutely. But then, something changed her life. Donate Anything For Selena. You know I think this is part of. every year on the anniversary of her death and on the anniversary of the day she was born, there's a floor. But, yeah. 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. heard in the kind of feedback I received. A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. The Anything For Selena podcast released earlier this year is a story of how Selena helped shape pop culture and American identity. 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. 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. In it, so powerful and you're. In "Anything For Selena," host Maria Garcia 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. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? Is it short forum its? yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. 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. Juan Diego Ramirezis a production assistant at Futuro Studios and Latino USA. It had been made dream to do a podcast about selina for years. 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