anything for selena podcast transcript

Subscribe to get an email every time this podcast publishes a new episode. 00:40:44 - NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. Aprendi castellano a la vista del pblico, y los errores que cometi se convirtieron en algunos de sus momentos ms famosos y entraables. 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. Ok, let's dive into this conversation, you know-. 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. Puede ser que Selena haya hecho una carrera cantando temas en espaol, pero no se cri hablando espaol en casa. immediate family and fans, it's also it's your personal style. 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. 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. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to. I mean, I don't mean to exclude you, Nick. And episode 2, for example, is about meeting Selena's father and really going deep into their relationship, and their dynamic, and, you know, he's been portrayed as a sort of exacting, controlling, demanding, short-fuse machista guy, and her as a playful, but nonetheless docile, daughter. 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. 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. It comes from a very specific lands. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. 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. 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. 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 then here comes Selena just flipping that narrative around. 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. 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. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. heard in the kind of feedback I received. 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. 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. 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. new that was the first step and getting it right is just being. Because again, my heart could not not be here. She graduated from Northwesterns Medill School of Journalism. Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selenas widower, Chris Perez. I wanted to get into like the nitty gritty of staff, and so I, out of the television medium and that's why, I mean it such an interesting shift to me, years ago. I was 9 years old, the the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and so Howard Stern was not in my world. 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. After that, she transitioned to arts and culture reporting and narrative radio storytelling. No credit card needed. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). 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. "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. What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long? 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. That's the gift of creative work, and I'm so thankful for it. 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. When I talk about salinas dad and my own dad, you know. [Laughter]. And that episode is about the fraught relationship between Latinidad and Blackness, through the lens of Selena. Add a podcast transcript Use Google Chrome? how telling you the lands that I'm looking at it through, and that is completely shaped by growing up in this. on the cusp of major major start up. is neither from here nor there take me deeper into what that means. Shes been featured on BuzzfeedssAnother Round, SlatesRepresentand the late night talk showDesus & Mero. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. And what does she mean to you? beyond you know the man made border and what our past. What. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selena's race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. ", "Let's burn our [indecipherable] with these peppers.". 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. 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. It was. I tall buildings in new york city, there's something so powerful that draws me in to just, even if I'm not out. I love that you know because, of the story that you can see from the position in the, of that. Antonia Cereijido is an Award-winning Senior Producer at Futuro Studios, working on developing new narrative podcasts. You know I am genuinely a fan idle, he comes up. 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. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. I had to imagine like there, There are certain like I need to. the states there were new immigrants here. But I got, show them to you, because you gotta know where I'm coming from, for you to understand how much I love Selina and why I love selena, then you kind of, gotta understand me a little bed and I think a lot of people. then they went into music full time and from the young age of like eight or nine years old selina bears a singer became the breadwinner for her family. March 13, 2021 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. feeling around how much a journalist inserts themselves are not had a really evolved from coming from you know. 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. This is such a safe place in part because, the place of immigrants. With your own father and then you walk through you like this. 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. 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. In fact, it's sort of disk up. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. Kristin Torrescomes toAnything for Selenaafter a decade split between radio and academia. So I thought and they were alike. Huge incident. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. Visit Our Sponsor Page For a Complete List of Vanity URLs & Discount Codes. Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy. 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. 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. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. We miss you here. I think I already am. 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? Plus,. [Laughter]. There is no such thing as coming to a story from no place at all. American networks and Mexican programming aired the same top story. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. 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? the fields- and this is good life project, I brought it is supported by amazon's it's hard to believe, but the hits efficiently getting closer to that time of year, where we can say that the holidays are just around the corner, which means the whirlwind of getting your holiday shopping done on time is probably starting to grow, especially if you really want to show you love with genuinely thoughtful a not last minute gifts. I have moments where I'm like, why do I do this? January 16, 2023, 3:41 AM. The phone kept ringing. 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. Thank you! I'm just so grateful that I get this opportunity to tell her story, to write her this ode, and to explore myself in the process. If someone is life and her powerful decision to centre the universality of struggle and joy expression and the complexity of love, relationships and power in the conversation I. so deeply john and a move by this body of work and was so excited to dive into maria's life, the story. It was right in the middle of a huge demographic shift. U permanent residents of the snake table for without you. Do you feel anxious about any of it? 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. 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. Confronted the woman and a few weeks later, and it was a huge huge news. Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. We're here. Get the New Yorker. Descubri a Selena Quintanilla, la cono que demostr que Mara no tena que elegir. The theory involves Selena Quintanilla but also Selena biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and the ensuing Latin Explosion. Subscribe to the podcast Apple Podcasts Google. That's been around for, releases these chemicals. It's terrifying. You know, as a white male perspective or a prospect, That's that often comes from the position of being white and mail in this country, and I, do want to say in this conversation that its very important to point out that, lead, reporting like there is something about about like the objectivity of your process. Of the way that we see beauty based on celebrity culture, which is certainly a part of that story, so hours, curious about me like what was happening behind that, to say. Whatever side of the border I was on, it felt like the other half of me was missing. Her bio pick. Mara sabe que para entender verdaderamente a Selena como persona y no solo como un cono, necesita ir a Corpus Christi. I get this sort of lake anger, deep, the sight of me, you know when I dislike wanna, take off my hopes. You know in, mexico and with my family, my mexican family, curves and. time talking to this guy. Web design by Andy Cheatwood and the digital and marketing teams at Southern California Public Radio. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. 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. half of them are in EL paso, heavily of their markets, that what is my family was like that? [Laughter], ===Excerpt: 2014 Associated Press Interview===. Kim Kardashian alborot internet con su trasero y Jen Selter, una mujer blanca y juda de Long Island, se ha autoproclamado la belfie queen (una combinacin de las palabras butt, que es trasero en ingls, y selfie) en Instagram. Do they own their lands? She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. They that to the listeners that, like this journey, was Selena that were about to go on it comes from a very specific place. But for the last year, she's taken on a different role and challenge: podcast host--and yes, my Selena doula. La bsqueda de Mara la lleva a Abraham Quintanilla, el padre de Selena Quintanilla. Let's dance and forget the people starving to death. Keith boykin shares how leaving his job open the door to his personal freedom and success. March 11, 2021 Un cuarto de siglo despus de su muerte, Selena est arrasando en internet. 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. perfection, don't stop yourself from doing something, because it's not gonna be perfect, embrace the wrinkled. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. That leads to that. They stay with you, and they inform the career paths you take, and they inform the relationships you build. November 21, 2022 NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. So you be, the character and the story, and I'm so curious about this, because the coming, really drummed ensuing journalism like you are my story like the your job is to be as currently unbiased down the middle as you possibly can be, and then you're working in a very well established. So, building on that, what did she mean to the culture? 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. 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. 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