Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, 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.

Salina Villocinos.

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. I'm a woman d'waite.

Gise the way Gise the way Gise the way

Christmas Christmas, yeah!

And I'm sorry. Yeah.

A star faded away today.

A star faded away today.

Tejano Music Queen Selina 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 day. I was four years old.

I was six years old.

I was eight years old.

I remember being in my graduate dorm, hearing the news and literally just falling to the ground

and in shock.

For almost my entire life, I've been thinking about why Selina matters, about what it means to love her.

Selina's legacy has shown me some of the biggest revelations about my identity, my community, my country.

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