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
I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.
Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.
I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.
It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.
You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.
We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.
[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.
There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.