Hey, quick note, there are English and Spanish episodes of anything for Selina.

This is the English one.

If you want to ask you to ask her in the spaniel,

well velvely, and selection the version with the titulos in Espaniel.

Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston. In early March 2020, I was on a plane. On my way from Boston to Corpus Christi,

Texas, Selina's hometown.

It was the early days of 2020, the before.

The country was still flying.

People were still out in the street.

I'd gone dancing the night before, albeit applying hand sanitizer on every 10 minutes.

So I was tired on the plane, but I couldn't sleep.

I was antsy. My stomach was in knots.

And it wasn't just because of the impending pandemic.

I was on my way to a month long reporting trip in Texas,

interviewing scholars, fans, and all kinds of people for this

podcast.

Except this podcast of course didn't exist yet, and that's because the whole thing hinged on the first leg of this

trip. This is when I hope to meet with Abraham Quintanilla,

Selina's father, who's notoriously protective of her image and music.

I'd hope to land an interview with him and also ask him to let us license

some of Selina's songs for the podcast. My boss's thinking was, no music rights, no podcast.

Before this plain right to Texas,

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