Georgia Hardstark
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4,112 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Georgia Hardstark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, Karen, your doorbell phone is ringing. Selena Quintanilla Perez was born on April 16th, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. and was called the Mexican-American Madonna. Oh, I must've known that. I've watched the movie with J.Lo. I haven't seen it. Wonderful piece of art. Gosh, she's beautiful. They were both beautiful.
And she was poised to become a crossover success when her death turned her into a legend. Selena's father discovered Selena's quote, perfect timing and pitch and helped his kids form a band. And she was like nine years old when they started performing. Wow. The band, once her parents lost their family restaurant, the band became the family's main source of income and they were in poverty.
And this career, Selena's career just took them out of poverty because they were evicted from their home during the Texas oil bust of 1982. And they moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, which sounds very hot, doesn't it? Yeah.
Um, that's a total guess. I know. I was like, right. Do I want it?
Is that a big military town? I think it is. Yes. In fact, it has 25 that I have no fucking clue. Let's just talk about Corpus Christi for the rest of this. Um, So then the family band began recording music professionally. And in 1984, when Selena was, I think, 13, the band released its first LP, Selena Los Dinos.
Hate mail can be sent to Karen Kilgariff. I'm just translating. Karen Kirillov's apartment or house, the address is. So yes, Stephen, you are correct. Selena was a third generation Texan of Mexican descent. So she didn't grow up speaking Spanish. So she didn't know any. But she learned all her songs phonetically. And when her popularity grew, she had to learn it. And she did very quickly.
But it sounds so, the ignorance makes it powerful. That's what it is. Like, cause that's what love does to you. Makes you a stupid idiot. That's right. Okay. Grew in popularity in the year 1987. She won the Tanejo, oh God. Tejano? Tejano Music Award. I like, I was watching videos to get this correctly and I'm just screwing it all up. Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist of the Year.
And then she landed her first major record deal with Capitol Latin in 1989. So she performed several times at the Houston Astrodome to sold out crowds of more than 60,000 people. And after her death time described her as the embodiment of young, smart, hip, Mexican-American youth from a tight-knit family and a down-to-earth personality, a Madonna without the controversy.
Essentially, she was a huge Mexican-American star in her community and was poised to become a mainstream star and that community was... obsessed with her and proud of her and felt like, you know, she was one of their own. Yeah. And she was a big fucking deal. Yeah. And she seemed like a very sweet person.
Cut that out. Don't cut that out. Not sorry. All right. Where am I? Cut to mid 1991. Yolanda Saldivar. She was, so you see all these photos of her and videos of her. She was, when she got arrested, she was 35 years old. What? That's quote unquote my age. She's 35. She looks like a fucking grandma. Yeah.
Okay, so 91, Yolanda Saldivar was around 30 and she was an in-home nurse for patients with terminal cancer and just a fan of Tejano music. Just a fucking random woman. She had a history of stealing money from her employers as well as trying to become intertwined with the lives of other performers. And she attended one of Selena's concerts and became a fucking psychotic fan.
With the intent of starting Selena's fan club, she started obsessively calling Selena's father, leaving almost 15 messages until he gave her permission in June of 1991 to be the president of the fan club, which sounds like, okay, you know what? Take this, run with it, do your thing, right?
Yeah.
But it's almost like, well, she's being consistent and she wants to run this thing and make us more money. And it's a thing that we haven't started and maybe it'll help her with her. Like, this is what I'm thinking was there. You know what I mean? I'm just saying that's three calls. Totally. In a day. Totally. Totally. Also, like you don't need to have contact with her after that. Okay.
So as president of the fam club, she was responsible for membership benefits, collecting money and promoting Selena. Yeah. All that kind of thing. And she actually didn't meet Selena until December 91, but they became close friends and Yolanda became trusted by her whole family. In 94, she became Selena's assistant and quit her job as a nurse. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. I did not know that.
I thought she was just the fan club. No, she became her assistant. She quit her job as a nurse, even though she was making more money as a nurse than she was doing this. Like she was just so obsessed and had posters all over her house and people come over. She would just make them watch Selena videos, talked about nothing else and was just like, kind of like crazy about Selena. Wow. Yeah.
That was, I've never heard that laugh before.
Like crazy. And wants them, like has this feeling of like ownership and like. Yeah. And like, no one understands it the way I understand it. It's almost made for me kind of a thing. Yeah.
All right. Well then, so in 94, Selena starts opening fashion boutiques. She has two of them opening up. It's called Selena, et cetera. I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't either. Cause she has this crazy style. It's very nineties and very like on point, like, you know, almost Madonna-y, but a little more hip and,
Hoop earrings and red lipstick. Yeah, it's totally pretty fucking sweet. So she's opening these clothing, these fashion stores and asks Saldivar to become the manager of the boutiques. So Saldivar, because of doing this, is authorized to write and cash checks, had access to the bank accounts associated with the fan club and the boutiques.
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