But that was a moment. 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. I could see her, watching the teleprompter just waiting for me to stop talking ass. You emotionally and part of part of the color in the text. 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. 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. We're gonna try. These old wounds opened up, and the reason that we hung that episode on that confrontation is because, to me, that was so illustrative of all of the tensions in the 90s that I was just talking about. In this episode, Maria traces how Selena became a symbol for solidarity and resistance. It is so big shes just so, Black! Fast forward to today, the obsession with large rear ends in hip-hop culture is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce, but it has also permeated white culture. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. I was 9 years old, the the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and so Howard Stern was not in my world. April 16, 2021 Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. 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. We shall television where it's like it falls pray, citizens, you know, especially because it so like you said constrained by like the form and, the time limits. There was more to be told she wanted to go deeper, to ask questions, explore issues and talk to people that had remained in the shadows for decades, then tell their fuller story: the real story, in a way that allowed all of us to step into it and learn from it and in no small way reconnect to ourselves and those around us summary. but were celebrated and an coveted and everybody wanted one like with my white friends, big buds, sort of derided and like their moms would exercise to get rid of their boats and like it was. You know my parents saw. The palm, and the fingers at reaching up or research the front page of the rockies and you're just being held you like in the middle of that, and it's not, feeling that I get from being in this town sounds like you're really resonate with as well. You know how much of themselves do they bring? 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. Is you can get the gifts quick and fast, with free shipping, prime customers get unlimited free to day shipping on eligible items and for everyone else. Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer 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. So this show is really like a part memoir, part reported story. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. The 10-episode podcast had over half a million downloads and was an intimate journey about belonging in America for podcast host and creator Maria Garcia, a journalist and first-generation Mexican immigrant.The podcast received a nomination for Best Spanish . It's been two years since, like I feel so saddle, in the direction of my life, and I I have done some of that rebuilding, just like when I met her father. 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. Here, it's not even the city, it's not necessarily even people. Keith boykin shares how leaving his job open the door to his personal freedom and success. "She had this . 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. in our conversation, which I've enjoyed so much so in this container of the good life project. heard in the kind of feedback I received. "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. Ninety seven starring jennifer lopez which kick started jailers career, it's been a quarter of a century plus later, I'm her legacy is still as alive today as it is as it was, then you know Netflix, She wasn't just a pop star. That is expense. Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. So like. But there was at least one TV personality who wasn't that impressed. You know in a more, maybe it's just like an appreciation that is somehow abidjan. It was really. every year on the anniversary of her death and on the anniversary of the day she was born, there's a floor. It's terrifying. And then when she died, that was amplified astronomically. ", "Let's burn our [indecipherable] with these peppers.". life through a lens, a possibility and joy. Why did I choose this? wanted to start with something like this. [Laughter] That's what it is, Nick! We miss you here. Okay, so Maria, can you tell me a little bit more about how Selena went from being a celebrity into becoming an icon? 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 . She was already a big star in my world, but she was about to become a big star in everyone's worlds. Add a podcast transcript Use Google Chrome? And if I could just say, I don't think we talk enough about gratitude, and I just want to say, I will be so grateful. the fuller narrative of this entire series becomes it's like it's not just the story of this. I have. 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 what an amazing experience to be able to do that. I grew up. 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. 1997 Chelly thanks you from the bottom of her heart. how did he was a kid and ensure that you have a bit of a different ones like, rather than not, really feelingly. Is someone who also left behind a high stakes law career for something new? I like it and sometimes challenging lake experienced trying to figure out. 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. I I dunno if everyone's affected that way, but I know I certainly am it sounds like you are as well. 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. 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. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. Was that always the plan? In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. [Laughter], I mean, I grew up in a whole other country. Abraham admits he was a stringent, calculating father to his big-hearted daughter. Because again, my heart could not not be here. Tras el debut de la serieSelenaen Netflix, algunos fans sealaron que la cantante haba sido blanqueada en ese show. one of the columbia that I have been dancing on the weekend with my mom and my grandma mines you that what is unlike kind of how, p and one of my classmates coming up to man being like or use singing mexican music, and that was the vibe. She became a part of this story, because as you learn, she realized she couldn't not. Everybody always says, "She has a big. 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. Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. This week: Maria Garcia's radically personal podcast, Anything for Selena, a love letter to la reina--the queen--Selena Quintanilla. In the end, its really a story about belonging, which we all need more of. And Selena! The phone kept ringing. 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. The good life project is supported by cabinets to go so whether you're, a big clerk or not. In the end. You know like one. How much. [Laughter]. It just became like this default behavior, often wonder for folks. I get this sort of lake anger, deep, the sight of me, you know when I dislike wanna, take off my hopes. That's why, 25 years later, we are still so attached to her, because there is a hunger to see Latino joy, Latino effervescence--and in her case, brown pride, brown joy--there is a hunger to see that because there's not enough of it. For many people, the kitchen is the heart of the home and it's essential to have a space that really inspires good, cooking and memories in the making. 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. 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. Sort of standard american education in the states, but in mexico. I am not saying that selina wizard of this bastion of body positivity big, hers. I was writing the episode. But then, something changed her life. 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. Shipping is free when your order includes at least twenty five dollars of eligible items, so get a head start on your holiday shopping. I knew right away this as this was one of the episodes that I immediately neo. But it's also often the first step on a path to freedom and in the new memoir quitting why I left my job to live a life of freedom, former white house, aide political commentator and bt personality. You wont regret it. and here was this american pop star, whose unequivocally said they're beautiful. 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. Teller, to pay homage to this woman who left such a tremendous impact on my life? sixteen seventeen. Pero la manifestacin de una guerra cultural oculta luego de su muerte nos revela otra historia. Every visit every day explore more new benefits at ikea, dash, usa, dot com, slash family offer valid starting nine one. And what if theyd been gone from the planet for 25 years, but still it was like they were present in your life, guiding and inspiring you every day? Boulders surly, its nestled right in the front rank the rockies and often describe it as if he turned your problem, upwards and then you took your fingers and you reach them up. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. She was finally ready to do, when english album, and so she was like on the cost of mainstream success. that resonates powerfully with me as well. You know, and I think this is a bigger conversation- that's being had and journalism about, in a story. I think a lot of people saw their own story in mine. Servant of Pod is written and hosted by me, Nick Quah. On the contrary, she sort of highlighted them. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. I was blown away by all the different cabinet options they have and how easy it is to get your free design for your space at home to visit cabinets, to go dot com today and see why no one beach their prices or their transferable limited lifetime. Because suddenly--and think about, at the time, where we were in terms of media, right? That's been around for, releases these chemicals. Oh, my gosh, there are so many reasons, Nick. 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. because what I felt like you are also doing was inviting people in. 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. A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. I chose that moment because if you hear it, you're like, "Oh, this sounds like a conversation that that can happen today.". 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. 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. And I don't think her legacy has been done justice. You know what I mean? ideal, and I can see that what is said in mexico and these two parts of myself, never really came together, and I talk about in the podcast how the border was just you know, a physical barrier. yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. She was a broadcast journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border for more than a decade. American networks and Mexican programming aired the same top story. We got all these messages from people being, re actually at the interviewer like yeah, they were gone. It has the rigorous journalism and the cultural analysis of Dolly Parton's America, with what I hope is the intimacy, and the heart, and the personal journey and personal connection to a place or people, that California Love has. You know I think this is part of. 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. Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as. The story of Tejanos decline isnt so simple, though. En este episodio, Maria explora cmo la internet se ha convertido en un lugar en el que los fans honran y recuerdan a Selena, y sobrellevan juntos el vaco que dej. And that's the gift. What. body- and she was talking a lot about her by and. it's an episode about the impact that the, way that Selina owned her voluptuous body and celebrated at the way that it-. It's interesting also right because you knew your incredible, cancer is virtual dive into anything. 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? The story shook the country and changed Marias life. February 16, 2021 A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. There were palpable, and very obvious, anxieties around immigrants, and specifically Mexican immigrants. Joining ikea as free wards program that grants members access to always on discounts, special product offers and even in store perks like complementary coffee or t sign up today, for I care family for free and save five percent in store on eligible purchases. After a decade reporting on music for various outlets, he served as Senior Editor on the public radio program Latino USA. And that episode is about the fraught relationship between Latinidad and Blackness, through the lens of Selena. No. are ok because I'm close to this mountain. I thought I was really, was moving and powerful and any other I really. It has also permeated white culture, with Kim Kardashian breaking the internet and butt selfie queen Jen Selter. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. You know, I grew up, consuming every selina story out there, so you. of separate what was going on in my life and yeah, Think that comes through in the episode. Even the New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. Selena Quintanilla was known as the "Queen Of Tejano Music," a major Latin star who was crossing over into the mainstream U.S. pop world when she was shot and killed in 1995. Just see us. When I talk about salinas dad and my own dad, you know. I want to ask about a specific scene in the third episode. 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. 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. 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. 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. So it's so interesting to me that. in that people in fact needs of people to get invited in and and share in this story. November 21, 2022 NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. It's like boulders. You know. I want to unpack that personal side a little more. immediate family and fans, it's also it's your personal style. 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." I've never seen anything like that. because they matter- and this is sort of like It- was interesting to see it was almost like. As a person moving through the world and experiencing culture, I only have sort of a very mild understanding of Selena--as an icon, as a creator, as an artist, as a celebrity--and so, when I listened to the early episodes, in many ways that was my first introduction to Selena the figure--the historical figure, almost. But, for example, episode 4 is about the mainstreaming of big butts and big butt culture. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. 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. like brand new to me, like, oh my god, I am not going to be with this little human. It was also something that divided me inside as well. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? Then of course jailer comes along and eighty ninety seven and play selina and takes that conversation. Thank you so much. 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