Gloria Estefan Profile

Name: Gloria Estefan
Birth Name: Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García
Birth Date: Havana, Cuba
Birth Place: September 1, 1957
Sex: Female
Nationality: Cuban
Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Measurements: 30-23-33

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Gloria Estefan Quotes

All I do is pray for that boy and his family. Every time I see his little face I feel he's in a tough spot ... I don't think anybody wins in this issue.
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As an artist, I feel like my mission is to entertain. And more importantly, to give people a way to say things.
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As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
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Gloria Estefan Biography

Gloria Estefan, who was born in September 1, 1957 on Havana Cuba, is one of the most successful songwriter-singer in the world. Estefan has sold over 26 million albums in the United States alone and 90 million albums worldwide. However, she wasn’t born rich; Gloria Estefan’s first performance was at a large Cuban wedding, where she met future husband Emilio Estefan Jr., who asked her to join their band, “The Miami Latin Boys.” When Gloria agreed, the band became known as the “Miami Sound Machine.”

In the 1980s, the Miami Sound Machine released three successful albums – the 1984 “Eyes of Innocence,” the 1987 multi-platinum album, “Let it Loose” and the repackaged version of Let it Loose “Anything for You” in 1989, which became the #1 album in UK, Canada, Australia and The Netherlands. In 1988, the group’s name was changed to ‘Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine,’ but dropped ‘Miami Sound Machine’ altogether the following year. Estefan was credited as a solo artist, but Gloria kept the Miami Sound Machine as her backing band throughout her career. In 1989, Estefan released “Cuts Both Ways,” which remains her best-selling album to date.

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Gloria Estefan started her career by performing at a Cuban wedding, where future husband Emilio Estefan Jr. recruited her to join the ‘Miami Latin Boys’, which was later known as the ‘Miami Sound Machine’ after Gloria’s addition to the group. The group then released their album, “Eyes of Innocence” in 1984, which became globally popular with hits like “Conga”, “Words Get in the Way” and “Bad Boy”. In 1987, a second album was released and immediately went multi-platinum from singles like “Can’t Stay Away from You”, “Anything For You” and “Rhythm is Gonna Get You.”. By 1988, the group’s name changed to “Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine”. A year later, Gloria Estefan became a solo artist, after the band members were fired.

Estefan released her 1989 album, “Cut Both Ways” and sold ten million copies worldwide. After being injured while touring in Pennsylvania, Estefan made a comeback with her album, “Into the Light” in 1991, which reached platinum in the UK and two-times platinum in the US. By 1992, Estefan released her first greatest-hits album, “Gloria Estefan Greatest Hits”, which was followed by the Spanish album “Mi Tierra” and the Christmas album, “Christmas through Your Eyes”, both of which sold millions of copies in the US and other parts of the world.

By 1994 to 1998, Estefan has released four more albums, “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me”, “Abriendo Puertas”, “Destiny” and “Gloria!” In 1999, Gloria Estefan appeared in a movie, “Music of the Heart”. She then released two albums – “Alma Caribeña” and “Greatest Hits Volume II” – in the next two years. Estefan then released “Unwrapped” in 2003 and a 2-CD compilation “The Essential Gloria Estefan” in 2006. Her last album, “90 Millas” was released in 2007. Throughout her career, Gloria Estefan has won five Grammys and numerous awards from, MTV, ACE and AMA, among others.