Dear Sugars Presents: Anything For Selena

Dear Sugars

情感与人际关系

2020-10-30

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Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena," a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! About The Show: 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. The phone kept ringing. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Maria’s family was watching, too. American networks and Mexican programming aired the same top story. Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American popstar had been killed — swiftly, violently — by the president of her fan club. The story shook the country and changed Maria’s life. In "Anything For Selena," host Maria Garcia goes on an intimate, revelatory quest to understand how Selena has become a potent symbol for tensions around race, class and body politics in the United States. The series weaves Maria’s 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.
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  • Hey, sugar fans, this is Anne Marie Sievertsen from WBUR's podcast team, and I want to share something very, very special with you.

  • Some of our colleagues here have a brand new show.

  • It's called anything for Selena.

  • And if you're a fan of the pop star already or if you aren't a fan yet, this show is going to be so freaking good.

  • We helped bring it into the world, and now we're sharing the trailer with you.

  • So take a listen and subscribe in the same app where you get this podcast.

  • Produced by the Ilab at WBUr Boston.

  • This journey begins at the border, a place in the in between where for a long time I felt divided in two.

  • Then I discovered her.

  • Red lips, brown skin, big hoops.

  • She was magnetic no matter what side of the border she was on.

  • I was a young kid, but I remember what it felt like seeing that one of us had made it and she brought us with her.

  • A star faded away.

  • Today, Tejano music queen Selena has been gunned down in Corpus Christi.

  • Then she was gone suddenly, violently.

  • So many of us were marked by her death.

  • And I'll never forget the day.

  • I was four years old.

  • I was six years old.

  • I was eight years old.