Gloria Estefan
Cuban-American singer and five-time Grammy winner.
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Estefan is known as the "Queen of Latin Pop" and has amassed 38 number-one hits across Billboard charts.[1] The Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur Gloria Estefan came into the world on September 1, 1957.[2][3]
Making and release
She and her cousin performed two Cuban standards at a wedding where the Miami Latin Boys were playing, and they were invited to join the band permanently.[4] The band changed its name to Miami Sound Machine, and Estefan agreed to perform only on weekends to continue her studies at the University of Miami.[4] While performing at a church ensemble rehearsal in 1975, Estefan and her cousin Mercedes Navarro met Emilio Estefan, Jr.[5] Eyes of Innocence, the first Epic/Columbia album from Miami Sound Machine, came out in 1984 and featured the dance hit "Dr. Beat".[6]
Three songs from the 1985 follow-up album Primitive Love—"Conga", "Words Get in the Way", and "Bad Boy"—all reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6][3]
What the cited sources add
The AARP article mentions that in 1992, Gloria was part of a United Nations committee that produced the first human rights report on Cuba.[7] The AARP article notes that Gloria's father's medical problems were believed to be caused by Agent Orange exposure.[7] The AARP article reports that the Estefans' fusion of pop, disco and salsa sold 100 million albums and won Gloria seven Grammy awards.[7] For her 1993 album Mi Tierra, Estefan received her first career GRAMMY in the Best Tropical Latin Album category, according to the Grammy.com profile.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Gloria Estefan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gloria Estefan"; "Gloria Estefan", GRAMMY.com, 19 November 2019; Slusarczuk, "Gloria Estefan: confesiones de la mujer que rechazó ser espía de la CIA para convertirse en la "madre del pop latino"", Clarín.com, September 24, 2020; "Gloria Estefan", Berklee; "Gloria Estefan" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gloria Estefan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gloria Estefan" at Kennedy Center 50; Novak, "Gloria Estefan on becoming the first Hispanic woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame: "Every song comes differently"", CBS News, January 18, 2023; Ratner-Arias, "20 Questions With Gloria Estefan Ahead of Her Induction to the Songwriters Hall of Fame", June 12, 2023 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Gloria Estefan", RAM Entertainment. facts only, no text reused. ramentertainment.com
- Wikipedia, "Gloria Estefan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gloria and Emilio Estefan Build a Music Empire and a Family Compound", The Wall Street Journal, 1 December 2015 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gloria Estefan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Mercedes Navarro Murciano, 50, original member of Miami Sound Machine dead", groups.google.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gloria Estefan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stavans, "Latin Music: Musicians, Genres, and Themes [2 volumes]", ABC-CLIO, 29 July 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Nash, "Latin Pop Icon Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan, Multilingual CD The ...", AARP. facts only, no text reused. aarp.org
- "Gloria Estefan", Grammy.com, 17 March 2014. facts only, no text reused. grammy.com
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