Gloria Estefan

Genres:	Dance • Documentaries • Drama • Foreign Films • Health & Fitness • Holiday & Seasonal • Kids & Family • Latin • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • Television
Descriptive "tags":	latin • pop • female vocalists • 80s • latin pop
Decades Active:	1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • Facebook • IMDb • MusicMoz • MySpace • Official Homepage • Wikipedia • Wikipedia

Biography

Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo, 1 September 1957, Havana, Cuba. Estefan, the most popular Latin American singer of the 80s and 90s, originally rose to prominence in the 70s by joining soon-to-be husband Emilio Estefan in Miami Sound Machine. Educated at Catholic high school in Miami after moving there from Cuba at the age of two, she first learned to play guitar and sing during her leisure hours. She met the other members of the band when Emilio came to her high school to offer advice on music. Together they played at a friend’s wedding, but Gloria initially refused to join the group permanently, preferring to concentrate on her psychology degree and career as an interpreter. She eventually relented, marrying Emilio in 1978, shortly afterwards collecting her BA degree from the University of Miami.

Miami Sound Machine recorded a sequence of Spanish-language albums during the late 70s and early 80s, becoming massively successful not only...

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