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Alt.Latino

Encore: Selena's spark still shines

Alt.Latino

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Music

4.5673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Since her death in 1995, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez' legacy has spread far beyond her Tejano music roots. This week, Alt.Latino revisits a classic episode and explores how Selena became a powerful symbol of Latina identity.

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you a special repeat episode this week. Now, I know, I know it's a repeat, but Felix is out for

0:34.7

the rest of a year, so I got to do some picks of what we were going to bring you

0:39.4

from the archives. And this one is really, really special. It's about La Reina,

0:45.9

Selena herself. Now we get to hear from all kinds of critics and thinkers and creators

0:52.3

about the impact that she had, the music that she made,

0:56.7

and the ways that she gets to live on all of our hearts today and every day forward.

1:02.1

So I think you should give this one a listen.

1:04.2

It's really quite something special, and I hope you love it as much as I do.

1:09.0

I was taking a walk, and I was trying to decide should I, should I do the Salina film or not? And I met two little girls. You had these moments in your life as a filmmaker and I think everybody's life where it's almost like the cosmos sends you a message, right?

1:30.6

And I met these two little girls.

1:32.3

One was eight years old, one was 10 years old.

1:34.5

They were Chicana, Mexicas, and they had Selena T-shirts on.

1:40.4

And I asked them, why do you love Selena?

1:43.9

And they looked up at me and they said, because she looks like us.

1:48.0

And that was like an arrow to my heart.

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