You know, why am I? 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. Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans. Think about where we were as a country in 1995. 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. And somebody once told me like, "What you're scared to write about, what makes you the most scared to confront, that's what you should be writing." 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. not a ninety. and here was this american pop star, whose unequivocally said they're beautiful. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. So what are the pieces of the story, wanna tell and then what a larger social issues that we really need to dive into the tank, So why are they like? Tejano award 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. You know I think this is part of. 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. It's completely find that is it the nature of the medium? 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. You know, switching at a very young age at and have the vocabulary to know that that's what. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. You know, but really that was sort of the spark that led to this, wider change in the mainstream culture and. I have moments where I'm like, why do I do this? Poverty is often disguised. We're talking about 1994, 1995, right before she died, when she was essentially ascending to Latino royalty. She became a role model for how Latinos could achieve the American dream and find acceptance. This week, Nick speaks with Maria about Anything for Selena, her new series from WBUR and Futuro Studios, which revisits the legacy of Selena, with an ear to trying to unpack how, exactly, she changed culture. Whereas a creator I put my foot down- and I said no we're still, that our audiences on this right with us. Her bio pick. The first. It was really. I love hearing perspectives that I didn't consider. sent one him over, but also how it brought it brings up you're really. And then I knew that I wanted it to be meaty. 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. 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. Not even. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. 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? "So the podcast really examines Selena's legacy," Garcia says. Sin embargo, la historia de su declive no es tan sencilla. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. Why has her being resonated with me so much? That is expense. immediate family and fans, it's also it's your personal style. 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. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. 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. Se transform en el modelo a seguir de cmo alcanzar la aceptacin dentro del sueo americano para todos los Latinos. 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. 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. Let us be human." 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. I want to unpack that personal side a little more. 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. That's ten percent off at catch of dot com, slash good life debts, I'm curious also when you stepped out into the liquor your early professional life in europe. 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. En este episodio, Mara Garca comparte su teora sobre cmo los traseros grandes pasaron de ser un tab entre las chicas blancas a una obsesin generalizada. March 12, 2021 Tras el debut de la serie Selena en Netflix, algunos fans sealaron que la cantante haba sido "blanqueada" en ese show. For Maria, who was raised in El Paso, Texas, and lived and worked on the border for years, Selena was a figure that helped her and many other young girls and women like her find a place in a world where they didn't feel like they belonged. The new podcast Anything for Selena, from NPR member station WBUR, doesn't begin with the late singer's biography or her most popular songs. And this sort of harsh refusal to do that. You know her, artistry was the family business. 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. Anything for Selena is a 10-episode podcast produced in partnership with WBUR. Your new and improved kitchen can be completed in weeks, not months. This is something which is which, So pervasive and culture, and then you saying as a journalist, dive into this. 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. 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. [Laughter]. Now, oh there's more to it, because I see this in the pot cast like it doesn't start there. When he was granted DACA, he was able to intern for Oregon Public Broadcasting as a production assistant for OPBsState of Wonderand OPBsWeekend Edition. We got all these messages from people being, re actually at the interviewer like yeah, they were gone. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). Was that always the plan? no jailer was in the first person, of course, to have this body types. No, when we started conceptualizing the series. 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. 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. 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? 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. ===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.. Journalist Mara Garca initially took notice of her talent when she was only seven years old. Then of course jailer comes along and eighty ninety seven and play selina and takes that conversation. I think I think you have to share this. 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 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. The link in the show notes, the good life project is supported by a script so between the great resignation, quiet quitting and all these trends. Add a podcast transcript Use Google Chrome? Subscribe to the podcast Apple Podcasts Google. Shes been featured on BuzzfeedssAnother Round, SlatesRepresentand the late night talk showDesus & Mero. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. Servant of Pod is written and hosted by me, Nick Quah. 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. 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. I feel like I learned to read at the same time that I learned to code switch on either side of the border. 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. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. This, of course, is Oprah, on her show in 1999. Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena,"a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. an incredibly vulnerable position to be in that when you have a group of people, you know work shopping, your work in real time. 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. 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. They have the narrative it had to have been, such an interesting moment for you to figure out like, can we do this in a way which is truly different and at the same time, honoured not only her legacy her family, but also, Stepping into this thing, I've got something that I, add to the conversation. 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. 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. So, Anything for Selena, how I like to describe it to folks, it's like if Dolly Parton's America and California Love had a baby. I had to imagine like there, There are certain like I need to. 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. Now? The western and southern part of the united states, mid nineties when she was in her early. Travelling. Why did I choose this? 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. This week: Maria Garcia's radically personal podcast, Anything for Selena, a love letter to la reina--the queen--Selena Quintanilla. She holds a Masters Degree in Arts and Culture Journalism from Columbia Journalism School. The story of Tejanos decline isnt so simple, though. It all boiled down, it all manifested, in this horrible, crass radio fight. In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. This is every kid while, an idea is fit in your leg. 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. I am, you know. Selena Gomez seemingly clapped back at trolls criticizing her body after the 2023 Golden Globes. She wants a grammy for best mexican american art is she was traveling internationally filling stadiums and latin america, and. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether its fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. Teller, to pay homage to this woman who left such a tremendous impact on my life? sixteen seventeen. NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. So what I'm hearing is that she's sort of this symbol of that bridge that many non-white Americans have in this country, of being of the two worlds and not being part of either. 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. And it may sound trivial, but what that episode showed me is that butt politics, body politics, is ultimately a story of fetishizing Black features, obsessing over Black features, while dehumanizing Black people. It was also something that divided me inside as well. You are giving people, a different entry point into an important issue, seeing it up in a way which was potentially inviting more people into it and inviting them into looking at a different. Yeah. what I realized that investigating this episode is. I'm Nick Quah. 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. 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. So like. dignan annette, like it attached. on the go so go. 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. 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