Anything For Selena

By: WBUR & Futuro Studios
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  • Maria García combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor Selena Quintanilla's life and legacy. 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. Anything for Selena has been named an Apple Podcasts Series Essential.
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  • Anything for Selena: A Podcast About Belonging

    Anything for Selena: A Podcast About Belonging
    Oct 9 2020

    Maria Garcia was nine years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered.

    25 years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and celebrate Selena. In this intimate, sometimes wrenching, cathartic journey, Maria explores what Selena’s legacy shows us about belonging in America — and Maria’s own place in the world.
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    4 mins
  • Selena and Me

    Selena and Me
    Jan 12 2021

    Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. But then, something changed her life.

    She discovered Selena Quintanilla—the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didn’t have to choose.

    In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world.
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    29 mins
  • Selena and Abraham

    Selena and Abraham
    Jan 12 2021

    Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. Maria’s quest takes her to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena Quintanilla’s notoriously guarded father. Maria confronts his complicated legacy and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures.
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    43 mins

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podcast about Selena's Legacy

I was born in 1994 and did not know about Selena until last year and I wanted to know more. This podcast held a respectful lense to the author's family and many like hers who love Selena. Respect was also something that was restored in this podcast to Selena's family.

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