Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefanis a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She started off her career as the leading vocalist in the group called "Miami Latin Boys" which was eventually known as Miami Sound Machine. Her breakthrough success with "Conga" in 1985 made her known worldwide. It won the grand prix in the 15th annual Tokyo Music Festival in Japan. This is her signature song. In the summer of 1988 she and the band got their first number-one hit for the song...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth1 September 1957
CityHavana, Cuba
CountryUnited States of America
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.
I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.
Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.
I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.
There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.
Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.