You know her, artistry was the family business. I did not know about this Howard Stern tape until we started doing the reporting and the research for the podcast. It's terrifying. yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. And then I knew that I wanted it to be meaty. It's this beautiful plant in my eyes, it's beautiful this beautiful, assertive brush that grows in the desert. It just became like this default behavior, often wonder for folks. 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. Sus seguidores de todas las edades han recurrido a Instagram, TikTok y YouTube para restaurar y presentar de nuevas formas la memoria de Selena. Hace casi 30 aos, el irreverente y obsceno sencillo Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) de Sir Mix-A-Lot debut en la radio para deleite y espanto de los oyentes. Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. 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. down a pine seen as not desirable, and I saw this shift. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. 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. A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not . But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), a member-supported public media network. [Laughter]. The lyrics playfully poked fun at white beauty standards, including a skit at the top of the song in which a seemingly white woman famously says, Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt. So why is Selena still relevant 25 years after her death? wanted to start with something like this. to downtown paso. Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about the singer's humanity. U permanent residents of the snake table for without you. 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. That's what drove me into journalism. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. by just that's what the container allows for, but. She won't be shamed. 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. I chose that moment because if you hear it, you're like, "Oh, this sounds like a conversation that that can happen today.". And then here comes Selena just flipping that narrative around. Selena is often called the Queen of Tejano music. In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. Juan Diego Ramirezis a production assistant at Futuro Studios and Latino USA. but not in a way that I feel like it needs to be told that could be told. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. You know like one. No. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. [Laughter]. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). How much. The media on enough over the years like, on the other side of the mike and being happy one tv segment, and yet the typical three to five minute interview and- and I could I, see the person interior me- this is in before ties in person studio the earthen. That I saw somebody like that ascend in American society, and ascend in a way that was still connected to her roots, ascend without compromise, and that was incredibly moving for me, and it stayed with me. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. Kim Kardashian broke the internet with her butt and Jen Selter, a white Jewish woman from Long Island is the self-proclaimed belfie queen (butt selfie) of Instagram. Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American popstar had been killed swiftly, violently by the president of her fan club. They stay with you, and they inform the career paths you take, and they inform the relationships you build. So incredibly, in the twenty seven years since salinas death, her legend, only grown. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. 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. In this episode, Maria shares her theory about how large butts went from a white girl taboo into a mainstream obsession. What's let's latch onto stories and actually go deeper, let's go where we need to go. 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. 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. You know in, mexico and with my family, my mexican family, curves and. I feel, for Asian-Americans, that that person was Bruce Lee, right? En el episodio de estreno de Anything for Selena, la conductora Mara Garca explora cmo Selena ayud a Mara a encontrar su propio lugar en el mundo. When I talk about salinas dad and my own dad, you know. There is no such thing as coming to a story from no place at all. I think I think you have to share this. how telling you the lands that I'm looking at it through, and that is completely shaped by growing up in this. But this is a story that has been told so many times, so I wanted to do sort of an anthology. February 23, 2021 After the premiere of Selena: The Series on Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been "whitewashed" in the show. Marias quest takes her to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena Quintanillas notoriously guarded father. 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. From here or there you ve come to a place where it sounds like you feel, like you have a sense of, dual belonging almost like, but it does sound like as a kid like and look. En este episodio, Maria explora por qu el spanglish de Selena pareca tan revolucionario para su poca y, a la misma vez, tan familiar para sus fans, quienes tambin padecan con el idioma de sus padres o antepasados. and experiences that led her into telling stories shining lights in championing ideas and ideals that matter to her and her community maria opens up about all of the above, as well as the intimate process of the unique story telling that took place in the creation of this pot guessers and takes me through the before and aftermath of, creating and launching anything for selina assessing the ways at it really transformed her and hopefully, whoever is turning it so excited to share this conversation with you, I'm gonna. 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. 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. 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. I mean, I don't mean to exclude you, Nick. 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. They would say you know what we really. 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. listen lee mexican, and I remember internalizing this shame. 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. You know, it felt like these old wounds. "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. 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. I didn't even quite have the understanding, but I I recognise now. it's really a story about belonging, which we all need Maura. 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. 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. She was already a big star in my world, but she was about to become a big star in everyone's worlds. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. 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. The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison. 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. March 2, 2021 In the series finale of Anything for Selena, Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selena's legacy reveals about La Reina's humanity. regularly every week in every week and moving back and forth between areas and EL paso and curious about that. Yeah, but see, I was always correcting her, don't do that. It's my heart, in a podcast. I want to unpack that personal side a little more. Este viaje a la poltica de los traseros en Estados Unidos es a fin de cuentas una exploracin de la raza, y nos conduce a una conversacin largamente postergada sobre la anti negritud dentro de la cultura latina. 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. when it was time to pick a career, I thought of, the vision journalism because it's the form. You know, I grew up, consuming every selina story out there, so you. Are you texas, new york, somewhere else, I'm in EL paso? Online, Selenas image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that werent even imaginable when she was still alive. 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. She was on the cusp of mainstream success, ass. Copyright Trustees of Boston University. 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. If she could ask that question and when it aired, community. From you know that I loved certainly now that this was not an unbiased account of her legacy. 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. 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. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. En el transcurso de su vida, Selena se convirti en un smbolo de esperanza. 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. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Marias family was watching, too. This, of course, is Oprah, on her show in 1999. and who are we leaving behind or who are erasing or like is the harm being caused by this beyond. I kind of figured that that's what you were going to say. Kristin Torres Twitter Associate ProducerKristin Torres is an associate producer in WBURs podcast unit. In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long? Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. holding me and protecting me in some way and justice feeling that I have, and I think it has to. All the time like I'm going to have to share him. like brand new to me, like, oh my god, I am not going to be with this little human. not a ninety. Her story has been told on large screen small screens, countless interviews and continues to make an imprint on media and culture, music, that transcends generations and nationality and still maria new. 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. 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. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. Maria Garcia has a distinct memory of when her connection to Selena Quintanilla-Prez began. Mexican-American music icon Selena Quintanilla has been gone for 26 years, but she's living life to the fullest online. Lately I've been drinking catch up to fuel my day and had been really impressed with the flavour and the texture catch up, It's most nutrient dense meal imaginable it's made with over seventy super foods and nutrients, including things like mockery of chia seeds, such a n g, comer, comer, mucky, berry, I say and coconut. One, I think she was a true artist. 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. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. Maria discovers that it's a story of immigration, money and how two often-ignored groups were pitted against each other. That, it turns out, is the power of authenticity, agency, and legacy. beyond you know the man made border and what our past. When I was in graduate school and I needed some motivation, I would listen to Selena, and I realized that there were all these milestones in my life where she was there. Yeah. Shes also a queer chola who listens to Selena when she needs some motivation. That leads to that. half of them are in EL paso, heavily of their markets, that what is my family was like that? NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. I, like you, just described that that second, that the said where you're talking about, the role of her dad. Society & Culture English United States TRANSCRIPT Are you the producer of this podcast? major cities in the u ass, including new york, shiva performed in. This is such a safe place in part because, the place of immigrants. 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. What. But, yeah. Shipping is free when your order includes at least twenty five dollars of eligible items, so get a head start on your holiday shopping. 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. And this podcast has given me the gift--the gift--of navigating my own pain, navigating these very scary questions about my own identity, and yeah, no, it's horrifying. Sus seguidores de todas las edades han recurrido a Instagram, TikTok y YouTube para restaurar y presentar de nuevas formas la memoria de Selena. It's such a part of my life, I'm always trying different recipes and supplements. But that was a moment. It had been made dream to do a podcast about selina for years. Well, I hope you get to go to Joshua Tree and cry a lot on the way. Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena,"a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. And how do you work through stuff like that? Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. I love that you know because, of the story that you can see from the position in the, of that. connection with the land. 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. After that, she transitioned to arts and culture reporting and narrative radio storytelling. 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. they can show up as authentically myself and more spaces. in california and northern mexico in arizona sushi. And so we argue that Selena has come to represent Latinidad: what it looks like, what it sounds like to be Latino, and that's great. local news all the time and it's what I knew and it's what was familiar to me and and it's what I thought, could really make a difference in telling the true story of the border, but, and I realize that I wanted to go deeper, and I wanted you know. public radio has its reputation of life. So when I discovered Selena, this was in the mid-90s, and I like to call it sort of "the age of assimilation," at least in in my lifetime, and I went to a predominantly Latino school--again, I grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border--but there was a hierarchy that rewarded only the most assimilated of kids. You know in a more, maybe it's just like an appreciation that is somehow abidjan. 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. She was finally ready to do, when english album, and so she was like on the cost of mainstream success. Tejano award I knew right away this as this was one of the episodes that I immediately neo. Listen to The Mel Robbins Podcast every Monday and Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts. 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? Not even. Oh, my gosh, there are so many reasons, Nick. Mara sabe que para entender verdaderamente a Selena como persona y no solo como un cono, necesita ir a Corpus Christi. Now? And so suddenly, her death was a top story in English networks and in Spanish networks--incredibly anomalous for the time. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. 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. You know, I think, so important to have this folks around you, yes, to help reflect back and, and then is also examining what is their lands like? But, for example, episode 4 is about the mainstreaming of big butts and big butt culture. Subscribe to the podcast Apple Podcasts Google. Codebreakerwas hailed as the first completely bingeable podcast, pushing the envelope of the medium with embedded secret codes in each episode, requiring the listener to unlock subsequent episodes by cracking codes. 00:40:44 - NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. That's different and fuller, like prison their mind. It's interesting also right because you knew your incredible, cancer is virtual dive into anything. It's interesting. A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. This is what I mean when I say my body recognises this place. I really appreciate it. life through a lens, a possibility and joy. If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up to live a good life embrace imperfection embrace? 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. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. And then when I was reporting on the story and spending time with Abraham, and talking to Abraham, I couldn't not deal with my own personal pain because I was thinking a lot and writing about Latino fatherhood, and about the relationship of Latino daughters and Latino fathers, and about the stereotypes and the narratives we tell ourselves about those relationships. Thank you so much for taking time talk to me. . ===Excerpt: The Howard Stern Show, April 3rd, 1995===, "Let's dance to happy Madonna-like music. And it felt like these two parts of myself were divorced from each other. "I'm a little bit big right now because I enjoyed . We got all these messages from people being, re actually at the interviewer like yeah, they were gone. That early resonates are often described. 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. Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. Today, we present episode one of Anything for Selena, a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios. Thank you! So, building on that, what did she mean to the culture? how she changed culture, how she changed music, what her role was in the world and, I was just really hungry for that to exist and, I thought. November 21, 2022 NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. Because again, my heart could not not be here. I was 9 years old, the the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and so Howard Stern was not in my world. 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. 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. Just oh there's like this evolution of. He is a multimedia producer and journalist based in New York. I want to ask about a specific scene in the third episode. Web design by Andy Cheatwood and the digital and marketing teams at Southern California Public Radio. Her research and reporting explores how politics, history and identity coalesce to create subcultures, folk heroes and pop culture icons. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. 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. You can find Maria at: Instagram | Websites. 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. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. I mean both the colorado after spending a wife and a different type of mountains. The western and southern part of the united states, mid nineties when she was in her early. of separate what was going on in my life and yeah, Think that comes through in the episode. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. Editors Notes: Mexican-American recording artist Selena Quintanilla not only popularized Tejano music to mainstream American audiences, but also helped put Latinos on the map and broke barriers of all kinds before her untimely passing in 1995. and here was this american pop star, whose unequivocally said they're beautiful. ethically and me now, I'm not sure, but I know there's something deep, therefore assure them. But I'm here, it's a gift. Maria confronts his complicated legacy and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. Society & Culture Anything for Selena From WBUR Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. I really love how I can get such a broad spectrum of nutrition all at once, and also. And so, yeah, I think I'll do a lot of gratitude crying. Exactly! you know and she celebrated her curls as she own them, and she didn't try to hide them. 1997 Chelly thanks you from the bottom of her heart. 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. ", "Let's burn our [indecipherable] with these peppers.". heard in the kind of feedback I received. because what I felt like you are also doing was inviting people in. 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. "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. Even The New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. Is someone who also left behind a high stakes law career for something new? sixteen seventeen. Yeah. emphatically storytelling and again a lot around politics policy and around border town issues. 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. Such a beautiful podcast. 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. April 16, 2021 Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. 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. You can walk the bordering and be in downtown see that what is and be in mexico in a major mexican city. Previously Ben was the host of the national daily programMarketplace Techfrom American Public Media and Marketplace, reaching two million listeners around the country. 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 like it and sometimes challenging lake experienced trying to figure out. 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. 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. 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. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. It's like, though, and the calls to me here, you know and to be able to walk out of, front door and see the mountains and see that what is in mexico and see the mountains in EL paso and it just for, like my body, recognises this place in a very vesture away in, and that keeps me here. On the one hand, you do you describe how that. At Marketplace, Bens reporting was regularly heard onMarketplacewith Kai Ryssdal,The Marketplace Morning Reportwith David Brancaccio,The BBC, and published inThe New York Times. Anything for Selena is a co-production of the iLab at WBUR and Futuro Studios. 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. It's completely find that is it the nature of the medium? And I don't think I'm alone. This was a cultural phenomenon. January 16, 2023, 3:41 AM. I smell creosote bush, which is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet. It was so him. These two lies that he used the phrase I guess translate roughly into english, neither from here, nor there then sandwich. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selenas brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selenas race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. And then, at such a formidable age, when I was sort of discovering my identity, I discovered Selena. When the beginning, that was a moment where that there were four, of these moments. 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. dignan annette, like it attached. March 23, 2021 In this intimate Q&A, host Maria Garcia and producers Antonia Cereijido and Kristin Torres take listeners behind the scenes for a look at the making of Anything for Selena. Episode 5. 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. Pero algo cambi su vida. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). In my whole life, and ever since her death, or left. Selena is often called the "Queen of Tejano music." 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. feeling around how much a journalist inserts themselves are not had a really evolved from coming from you know. As an undocumented immigrant for over 20 years, Juan Diego decided to focus his works on communities that reflect him. 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. Maria confronts his complicated legacy and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures. 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. Chris shares a side of Selena we rarely get to see, and Maria learns about how romantic love was one of the ways Selena charted her own path.