1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Hey, dear listener, it's Baria. Please stay tuned after this 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: episode because you're gonna want to hear the trailer for 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: our upcoming podcast from Futuro Studios and w B U R. 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: I think you can love it. 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: It's called Anything for Selena and it's about the cultural 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: impact of the one and only Selena Kitania. Okay, remember 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: to listen and onto our show from Futuro Media. It's 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: Latino us saying I'm Maria in Josa. Today we bring 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: you one of our How I Made It segments with 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: Puerto Rican indie banda. 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 3: I L Love Man. 12 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: It's the voice of Raquel Berrios that takes us through 13 00:00:53,680 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: Buskaya's ever evolving sounds. Buskabuya is the Puerto Rican experimental 14 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: duo formed by wife and husband Raquel Berrios and Luis 15 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: Alfredo L Baym. In May, they released their new album 16 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: Regezsa and with Buskabuya expands on their Caribbean synth pop 17 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: sound by using a variety of rhythms and influences from 18 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: marching band drums to R and B vocals. By twenty eighteen, 19 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: Buskabuya was one of the most beloved LATINX bands in 20 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: New York City. Raquel and Luis had just released their 21 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: second EP and confirmed a performance in that year's Coachella 22 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: Music Festival. Around this time of success, Raquel and Luis 23 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: also decided to move back to Puerto Rico. It was 24 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: a significant life change, but when they were certain they 25 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: wanted to as artists and as new parents. Massa Buscabuya's 26 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: debut album follows Raquel and Luis in their journey back home. 27 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: Through their dream like sound, we access a subtle portrait 28 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: of hopes and anxieties brought on by their return to 29 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: the island after living in New York City for many years. 30 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: In the video for their song Neil, you can read 31 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: the sign of an upcoming tourist resort in the town 32 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: of Aguadilla. It's weaved in with scenes of the gritty, 33 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: pink and green masks of the traditional festival Las Mascaras. 34 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: The song lyrics give a warning to those who think 35 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: that they can own what. 36 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 2: Isn't theirs Causantras. 37 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: In this segment of our How I Made It series, 38 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 1: Raquel and Luis joined us from Ajuadilla, Puerto Rico to 39 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: tell us how they got there. 40 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: My name is Raquel and I do vocals, qis and sampler. 41 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 4: My name is Louise and I play the bass and. 42 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 5: Drums sometimes as well guitar as well, a little bit 43 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 5: of everything. 44 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 3: And the name of our band is I am from Trujeerio, Alto, 45 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: which is fifteen minutes from the capital, San Juan. It's 46 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 3: a mountainous part of Puerto Rico and very tropical and lush. 47 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 5: I am from the town of Ponce in the south. 48 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 5: It's much drier than San Juan, like really hot summer afternoons. 49 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: Luis and I met in New York. They're both Puerto Ricans, 50 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 3: so I think that it was sort of destiny and 51 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 3: we were bound to probably bump into each other because 52 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 3: Puerto Ricans in New York really look for each other. 53 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 3: My mother was born in the Bronx. My great grandmother 54 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: migrated there when things got really bad in the forties 55 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 3: here in Puerto Rico. 56 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 5: At some point, you know, I had worked on music 57 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 5: enough in Puerto Rico and things were starting to fall 58 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 5: apart with my band that I had, you know, growing up, 59 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 5: I just had to make a decision of what to 60 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 5: do next with my life. And I think the logical 61 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 5: thing for a lot of Puerto Ricans is is to 62 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 5: go to New York. 63 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 3: We met at a friends party, Puerto Rican Thanksgiving Day party, 64 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 3: so there was a lot of dancing. 65 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 5: Rachael had this girl group with her best friends. You know, 66 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 5: they sort of wanted to start playing live, and I 67 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 5: was like, oh, well, you know, I could play drums, 68 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 5: I play guitar, I can play all this stuff. And 69 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 5: there was this one night where they were playing their 70 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 5: cover of like a Lady Gaga song. There playing a 71 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 5: bad romance cover that they had sort of translated to Spanish. 72 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 4: It's called mild Romance. 73 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 5: But they were always mess up in the chorus chords, 74 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 5: and I remember, like I was a stepping I was. 75 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 5: I remember those chorus chords. That's how I earned my 76 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:18,119 Speaker 5: way into the girl group. 77 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 3: And we started talking about music, and I had already 78 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 3: been working on some sort of weird demos and I 79 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 3: just you know, showed them to him without really thinking 80 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 3: that much of them. And then he got really really 81 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 3: excited and he saw a lot of potential and he 82 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 3: thought that I should keep going and that we should 83 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 3: really like start collaborating and working on stuff. 84 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 5: The first thing I remember us really working together on 85 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 5: was a cover of a song called Tuloco Loco Fiodrenilo. 86 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 4: I believe it was an assignment that. 87 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 3: You had for from piano class. 88 00:05:54,880 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, your composition and piano class. She came home, she 89 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 4: had this assignment. 90 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 5: She had to rearrange an old classic sal satoon and 91 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 5: then she was like, Yo, can you help me like 92 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 5: sort of finish this, and of course obliged. We were 93 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 5: already living together at that point, so it's all very informal, 94 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 5: you know, it's not like one day I was like, oh, 95 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 5: we need to do something together and it has you know, 96 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 5: they excited about music and saw that in each other, 97 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 5: and it started naturally sort of building up. 98 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 3: After Hurricane Maria, all Puerto Ricans in US mainland and 99 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 3: big cities, we all felt very in depth and everybody 100 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 3: kind of felt that everybody wanted to help, and you know, 101 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 3: helping independent artists was sort of the way that we 102 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 3: could help. Prima was kind of this labor of love 103 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 3: that means Puerto Rico independent musicians and artists. It supports 104 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 3: and it also amplifies the voices of independent musicians and 105 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 3: the island our independent scene as small, but very rich 106 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 3: and very varied. I mean, I think after a while, 107 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 3: like once you kind of feel like you've sort of 108 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 3: discovered what you want to do, and you start doing it, 109 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 3: and you start establishing yourself doing it. You know. Really, 110 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 3: what we started to feel was like how we wanted 111 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 3: to just really have more time to kind of expand 112 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 3: as artists. And not only that, but also I mean, 113 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 3: we all dream about going to New York, but as 114 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 3: a Puerto Rican I think a lot of us also 115 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 3: dream about coming back home. I also really wanted to 116 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 3: take advantage of all the opportunities that the city was 117 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 3: giving us. But eventually it all started to kind of 118 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 3: feel very hectic and stressful. We had a baby. We 119 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 3: only really want our daughter to be back home, to 120 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 3: learn Spanish, to be close to Rabuela an Auelo, and 121 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 3: in a way like while we were in New York, 122 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 3: like our dreams became really about coming back home and 123 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 3: making music here. 124 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 4: I remember feeling super emotional on the plane ride. 125 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 5: As soon as we got to the plane and we 126 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 5: were on board, like we all hugged and it just 127 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 5: seemed like something that was never going to end, and 128 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 5: suddenly we were here and we were home. 129 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 3: Regressa was in the way that I see it as 130 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 3: you know, I remember, I think it was our drummer 131 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 3: who once told me, you know that each album that 132 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 3: you work on is sort of a chapter of your life, 133 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 3: and that is very, very true. And I think that 134 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 3: because of the fact that we knew that we were 135 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 3: going to go through this process, that it was worth 136 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:58,599 Speaker 3: sort of pouring those emotions into the music. You know. 137 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 3: The marching band drum really were inspired by going to 138 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 3: all these carnivals in the island and seeing sort of 139 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 3: the school marching bands, and the energy and the charge 140 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 3: behind the rhythms is really kind of the way that 141 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 3: I was feeling when I came back home, where I 142 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 3: felt that there was so much to do trying to 143 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 3: create from that space, and it was really really hard. 144 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 3: The transition was really hard, and I think I was 145 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: confronted very much with myself and my fears. The record 146 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 3: really kind of captures this moment in time when we 147 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 3: come back, you know, the joy and the sorrow of 148 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 3: being here. 149 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 5: Sort of macro difference, which was our mindset in trying 150 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 5: to make a narrative that cast a wider net, was 151 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 5: more complex and longer. 152 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 4: We did get some help producing it, especially in one 153 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 4: track called. 154 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 5: Glup t Eo, we had our friend Roberto Lane Lad 155 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 5: record a sort of dring and horn arrangement. 156 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 4: It's very cool. 157 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 5: And it's the first song I've sort of wrote for 158 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 5: the band. It's kind of a dystopian bolehto. It's a 159 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,599 Speaker 5: song about us, you know, I guess us ends in 160 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 5: Raquel and I being together, having a kid, have gone 161 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 5: through this whole experience together and moving out here together 162 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 5: as well, just the loneliness that can exist even within 163 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 5: the security of a relationship. 164 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 3: Nydia, I feel, is a pretty special track because I 165 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 3: feel it's sort of the hinge in the record, and 166 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 3: most of the songs before Nydia are about kind of 167 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 3: angst and existentialism and wailing in a way, I think, 168 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 3: and then when Nydia comes along, it's sort of the 169 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 3: turning point and the record, and it means a lot 170 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 3: because Nadia is actually named after Nidiacao, who is actually 171 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 3: the woman speaking the words at the end of the track. 172 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,319 Speaker 3: A song of hers that was pretty popular in the 173 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 3: seven is called Ela. More of. 174 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 5: What she's saying translates to the darkness can be your 175 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 5: impulse towards the light, and then she says, you can't 176 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 5: see the stars without a dark night. 177 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 3: And it's really about kind of like coming to terms 178 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 3: with your own fears, coming to terms with accepting flaws 179 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 3: and being okay with it and not beating yourself over. 180 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 3: And it's also about just trying to really pull yourself 181 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 3: up from kind of a dark place. But the interesting 182 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 3: thing is, like, you know, this scorn feels a lot like, 183 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,239 Speaker 3: you know, I would talk to my dad after the hurricane. 184 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 3: My dad didn't get power for at least like I 185 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 3: think it was maybe like five months after the storm hit. 186 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 3: People didn't know, people couldn't communicate, people couldn't buy food, 187 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,839 Speaker 3: couldn't get water, you know, and people took it day 188 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 3: by day. The album is very much about that, is about, 189 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 3: you know, the angst and the hardship of trying to 190 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 3: live in an island in the present moment and how 191 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 3: you just really want to stay here and you want 192 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 3: to persevere and you have to persevere. 193 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: The words of Raquel Rios and Louis Alfredo de Baye, 194 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: best known by indiefanse as Uskabuya. 195 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 2: Their new album Regresa is out now. 196 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: This episode was produced by Arianna Datia and Gini Montalbo 197 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: and edited by Luis Ries. The Latino USA team includes 198 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: Miel Massis, Julieta Martinelli, Alissa Scarce and Alejandra Salasad, with 199 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 1: help from Andrea Lopez, Gruzsado and Raul Perees. Our engineers 200 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: are Stephanie Lebau, Julia Caruso and Ria shap Our. Director 201 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,439 Speaker 1: of Programming in Operations is Natalia Fidelhoz. Our digital editor 202 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: is Luis Luna. Our New York Women's Foundation Ignite fellow 203 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,719 Speaker 1: is Julia Rochan. Our interns are Jimena del Serro and 204 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: Emil se quiros. Our theme music was composed by Sea Robinos. 205 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: If you like the music you heard on this episode, 206 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: stop by Latinousa dot org and check out our weekly 207 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: Spotify playlist. I'm your host and executive producer Marie j. 208 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 2: Josa. 209 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: Join us again on our next episode, and in the meantime, 210 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: look for us on all of your social media and 211 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: I loos BeO Astelaproxima, Cchoo. 212 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 6: Funding for Latino USA is coverage of a culture of 213 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 6: health is made possible in part by a grant from 214 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 6: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Latino USA is made possible 215 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 6: in part by the Annie Casey Foundation creates a brighter 216 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 6: future for the nation's children by strengthening families, building greater 217 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 6: economic opportunity, and transforming communities and the wind Coat Foundation. 218 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: And now, dear listener, here's the trailer for Anything for Selena. 219 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: It's a new podcast from Futuro Studios and WBR coming 220 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: to your feed this coming January. 221 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 7: This journey begins at the border, a place in the 222 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 7: in between where for a long time I felt divided 223 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 7: in two. Then I discovered her red lips, brown skin, 224 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 7: big hoops. 225 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: She was magnetic, no matter what side of the border 226 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 2: she was on. 227 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 7: I was a young kid, but I remember what it 228 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 7: felt like seeing that one of us had made it, 229 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 7: and she brought us with her. 230 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 5: Faded away today Tejano music Queen Selena has been gunned 231 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 5: down in Corpus Christie. 232 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 7: Then she was gone, suddenly, violently. So many of us 233 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 7: were marked by her death. 234 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 4: And I'll never forget the day. I was four years 235 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 4: I was six years old, was eight years old. 236 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 3: I remember being in my graduate dorm hearing the news 237 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 3: and literally just falling to the ground in shock. 238 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 7: For almost my entire life, I've been thinking about why 239 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 7: Selena matters about what it means to love her. Selena's 240 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 7: legacy has shown me some of the biggest revelations about 241 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 7: my identity, my community, my country. 242 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 4: You did play Selena, and you did take a gus shot, and. 243 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it again, and I'm gonna do it 244 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 2: twenty breaking. 245 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 4: Time, and I want you to leave my country. 246 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 3: No man, I want to buy country. 247 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 4: I was born in this country, Oh boy, I had 248 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 4: the same equal rights you do. 249 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 3: Got. 250 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 7: She provides this like they should in these spaces that 251 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 7: we weren't welcomed in before, and that we're. 252 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 6: Able to red her with us. 253 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 7: This story is personal. I go deep into Selena's roots. 254 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 7: There's more to her and her family's journey. Oh man, 255 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,120 Speaker 7: dreaming of the storm for a very long time. 256 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 2: A lot of people that see the movie, they think, 257 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 2: ab bad guy. Have I mean that I control my 258 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 2: children again? 259 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 7: Do? I'm on a quest to understand how a working 260 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 7: class girl who began singing to put food on the 261 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 7: table changed culture. And the journey has taken me in 262 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 7: surprising directions. 263 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 3: And she was just like, I ain't trying to hide 264 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 3: that this is what I got. 265 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 6: This is definitely the most anybody has ever talked to 266 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 6: me about butts before? 267 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 2: That's interesting. 268 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 3: Do you got to listen to the episode? 269 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, I have a you know, a large rear. 270 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 4: I guess for the norm, but you know, for me, 271 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 4: it's normal. But norm black women have had this bottom 272 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 4: of all our lives. 273 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 7: Ultimately, this is a podcast about a woman who was 274 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 7: unapologetically herself, a woman who inspired a whole movement, a 275 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 7: woman who changed my life. 276 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 4: If you. 277 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 3: Have a dream, don't let anybody take it away. 278 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 2: I always believe that the impossible is always possible. 279 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 5: Good Emma. 280 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 7: I'm Maria Garcia and this is Anything for Selena, A 281 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 7: podcast about belonging from w b U R and Futthudo Studios. 282 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 7: Coming January twenty twenty one. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or 283 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 7: anywhere you listen. 284 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 4: I can wonder. 285 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 3: MH. 286 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 2: I'm Mariaino Jossan. Next Time on Leatin New USA. 287 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: Oga Greer the story of a controversial Puerto Rican drug 288 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: treatment program and the larger than life man who started it. 289 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 2: That's next Time on Leatin New USA.