Biography
Called a "Queen of Latin Pop," Estefan is one of a virtually all recognized music creative person in the globe. Billions own heard her, hundreds to thousands st& seen her perform — and by using terminated 70 million albums sold worldwide, she is the lone virtually all successful crossover performer in Latin music history.

Additionally to her music career, Estefan has appeared around both moving-picture show, Music of the Heart (1999) and For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000). She is slated to star when Connie Francis, a U.S. popular singer whose peak commercial profits was in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an yet ignoble film according to Ms. Francis' life.

Early years

Cuban-born, Estefan's family moved to Miami, Florida when she was 16 months old, as a consequence a Cuban Revolution in 1959. Estefan's father, Jose Fajardo, was captured in the ill-ill-omened Bay of Pigs invasion that failed to overthrow the freshly communistic government established by Fidel Castro. Her father was held as a captive until an exchange was intended by so-President John F. Kennedy.

Estefan's father as well served as an officer around the United States Army in Vietnam, where he is suspected of with been poisoned by Agent Orange, a defoliant used extensively during a Vietnam war. He contracted multiple sclerosis, and was nursed by the immature Estefan for numbers of years. He died inside 1980.

Gloria Fajardo became romantically included by using a Miami Healthy Machine's band leader, Emilio Estefan, in 1976. She & Emilio married in September 2, 1978. It develop ii toddlers: Nayib (born September 2, 1980) and Emily Marie (born December 5, 1994).

Estefan was raised primarily around Miami (though she accompanied her mother, father & immature sister, Becky, to many military bases in the 1960s during her father's military service). When attending a University of Miami, she worked as a Spanish and French translator at Miami International Airport's Customs Department. Estefan graduated from either the University of Miami by owning a degree within communications & psychology (with the tike around French), & occurs as large advocate for the university.

Miami Sound Machine
Estefan's number one major public performance was at the big Cuban wedding whilst Emilio asked her to join the band to sing in stage, fallowing which she received a standing ovation.

Two or three weeks late, she became a lead singer for the Miami Healthy Machine, which performed & recorded within Spanish in the early years of its existence. the Miami Healthy Machine shortly gained a big fan base & freed an LP within 1977 with a local company. It was a number 1 everthing-Spanish album from either CBS International.

By having Estefan in vocals, A Miami Healthy Machine experienced its number 1 English-language hit by using "Dr. Beat," which topped a dance stock and index charts through Europe, from a album Eyes of Innocence, inside 1984. Primitive Love was freed within 1986; "Conga," "Bad Boy," & "Words Get in the Way" were crossover hits. Her next album, 1988's Let It Loose went multi-platinum, using many million copies sold & a as punishment hits: "Anything For You" (#1 Pop), "1,2,3" (#3 Pop), "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" (#5 Pop) & "Can't Stay Away From You" (#6 Pop & #1 Adult/Contemporary).

, Estefan recorded as a solo artist first. That month, she freed her better selling album up to now, Cuts Two Ways (which refers to Estefan's want to appeal to each English & Spanish-speaking fans) by having hits such as "Don't Wanna Lose You" (the America #1 hit), "Oye Mi Canto", "Here We Are", "Cuts Both Ways" (#1 within Australia) & "Get On Your Feet". Cuts Two Ways sold further than ten million copies worldwide & reached first around many countries.

1990 tour bus crash in Pennsylvania
When touring inside trend lines of Cuts Each Ways, in March 20, 1990, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, a tractor trailer crashed into Estefan's tour bus, critically injuring her and breaking her back. Estefan was flown by chopper to New York City, where surgeons permanently implanted two titanium rods to stabilize her spinal column. A laborious recovery took about a year.

When extensive physical therapy, Estefan returned to the charts by using the concept album, Into the Weak, inside 1991. A lead individual "Coming Out Of The Dark," whose title was according to the sentence her married man, Emilio, hurriedly jotted in the piece of paper as the eggbeater transported her for delicate surgery to repair her broken back, was a hit worldwide. "Coming Out of the Dark" was performed publicly first on the "American Music Awards" in January 1991, for which Gloria received a rousing standing ovation.

A "Into the Light World Tour" displayed a relentless energy, home warmth, & crack musicianship that Estefan got developed across her old b&, a Miami Healthy Machine, and across her solo career. This tour covered One c cities within nine countries & was seen by further than 10 million population worldwide.

Comeback

1993's Mi Tierra saw Estefan return to her Cuban roots sustaining the Spanish-language album, for which she won the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album. Mi Tierra was the successful album worldwide, sustaining terminated eight million copies sold. Inside Spain, Mi Tierra became the united states's better selling international album ever.

A Classics Collection Hang on to Us, Thrill Us, Kiss Us, a handle album, was freed within 1994. "Turn the Beat Around", the foremost lone, a disco hit from a 1970s, became one of the virtually all successful singles of the 1990s. "Everlasting Love" was the successful club & popular hit.

1995's Spanish-language album Abriendo Puertas earned Estefan her second Grammy Award for Right Tropical Latin Album. It spun off deuce #1 Dance hits, "Abriendo Puertas" & "Tres Deseos", & deuce #1 Latin singles, "Abriendo Puertas" & "Mas Alla." The Miami Herald called Abriendo Puertas "a danceable pan-Latin American fusion, brilliantly built on improbable instrumental combinations and layers of styles and rhythms." Around 1995, Estefan sang the Hoarding Latin #1 song "Mas Alla" for the late Pope John Paul II as part of the celebration of his Fiftieth day of remembrance in the priesthood. She was a number one popular star invited to perform for the Pope. At their meeting, Estefan, an anti-communist Catholic, asked the Pope to pray for the loose Cuba. She has been an active opponent of Fidel Castro's government, & supported a stillborn effort to keep immature Elián González in the United States.

A Atomic number 78 album Destiny, released around 1996, featured "Reach," a official theme of the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. Estefan performed in the closing ceremony, before of an audience of Two billion humans worldwide.

On tour with "Evolution"

In July 18, 1996, Estefan embarked on her "Evolution" globe tour (her 1st tour around 5 years), which covered a United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Australia, South Africa and Asia.

Estefan appeared around the pic, Music of the Heart (1999) and dueted using *NSYNC on the Billboard #1 and Oscar Nominated "Music Of My Heart." She likewise freed a Latin hit using the Brazilian group And so Pra Contrariar known as "Santo, Santo," sang sustaining Luciano Pavarotti in "Pavarotti and Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo," released a tribute album "A Rosie Christmas," & sang by owning Stevie Wonder at Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami. Estefan is a simply creative person to perform twice at the Super Bowl.

Additionally to her musical theater profits, Estefan & her hubby come enterpriser. Together, it have 5 place of business withinside Florida: trio Cuban-themed eating house (Bongos) in Miami, Miami Beach and Orlando, and two hotels, the Palm Court Resort Hotel within Vero Beach, which was destroyed by hurricanes in the fall of 2004 (Estefan's management says it will be rebuilt & reopen when a Cabana Beach Resort within late 2007), and A Cardozo within Miami.

Additionally to her 5 Grammys, Estefan has received the total of more prestigious awards. Within May, 1993, she received the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, which is a highest award that may be given to the citizen world health organization was natural outside the United States. She has won a Hispanic Heritage Award, an MTV Music Award, two cable television "ACE" awards & a 1993 National Music Foundation's Humanistic of the Month award. A singer is the recipient of the U.s. Music Award for Life-time Accomplishment. She likewise has the star in Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Her married man, Emilio, the globe-an expert music showman, received the star adjacent to his married woman's on the Hollywood Hike of Fame inside 2005.

Within 2003, she was inducted into a Florida Women's Hall of Fame. A City of Hope, one of her favourite charities, inside 2004 presented her sustaining a Spirit of Life Award withwithin recognition of her contributions to the Hispanic community & in trend lines of its openhearted tries. Her hometown of Miami honored her, inside 2004, by using a City manager's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Estefan holds an honorary Doctoral Degree within Music awarded per University of Miami in 1993. Around 2002, Barry University bestowed upon her an honorary law degree.

She has scores of panegyric for her musical accomplishments, human-centred & philanthropic work. Around 2002, she received a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Medallion of Excellence for Community Service. A singer was Musicares Human of the Month around 1994. A Alexis de Tocqueville Society awarded her the United Way Great Philanthropy Award inside 1993. She was inducted into a Movieland Star Hall of Fame within 1991.

She has been honored twice per Songster Hall of Fame: around 1996 she won a Hitmaker Award; she & her married man, Emilio, won a Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award within 2001.

Inside 1992, she served as a public member of the United States Delegation to the 47th General Assembly to the United Nations.

Estefan was BMI's Songster of the Month within 1992. Bnai Brith honored her as Human-centred of the Season around 1992. Besides around 1992, she won a Premio Lo Nuestro Lifetime Achievement Award. Miami Healthy Machine won a American Music Award for Best Pop Band inside 1987.

Around March of 1990, on the day prior to her back was broken around the bus accident, she was honored by President George H.W. Bush for her anti-drug efforts.

At the 2005 Billboard Latin Music Awards, Estefan won a award for Tropical Airplay Track by a female creative person for "Tu Fotografia."

Estefan's next album, 2000's Alma Caribeña won the 1st Latin Grammy for Best Music Streaming videos for There is no Us Dejes delaware Querer. A album reached first within Spain, a United States & many South Western countries. That season, she likewise won a Our contries Music Awards Award of Merit.

Greatest Hits Vol. Two was freed inside 2001. It contained hits from either 1993 to 2000, threesome newly songs & the remix of her 1st hit "Conga", at present known as "Y - Tu - Conga". Greatest Hits Vol. Two was the commercial disappointment, but, merchandising fewer than 200,000 copies, comparing unfavourably to 1992's original Greatest Hits CD, which sold Ii.Five million copies.

Unwrapped

Within 2003, Estefan released Unwrapped, her number one English-language Video around 5 years. She too toured Europe, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States inside the promotion tour. A Video's number one cd, for the individual "Hoy/Wrapped," was shot inside Machu Picchu, Peru. "Hoy" & a next lone, "Tu Fotografia," were #1 in Hoarding's Latin chart.

Around April, 2004, Estefan appeared on the Fox Broadcasting Company's program, "American Idol," but she declined an offer to exist as an official judge because, she said publicly, she doesn't such as to "judge" others.

In July 28, 2004, at the Trump Tower Building, in the news conference hosted by Donald Trump, Estefan announced that her then-upcoming tour would become her final 1. A "Live and Re-Wrapped" Summer/Fall 2004 Tour, her number one tour inside eight years, by Clear Channel Entertainment, featured Estefan’s greatest hits, along with newly poop from either her recent Video, Unwrapped, inside an explosive, multi-multimedia system concert production.

Estefan began a "Live & Re-wrapped Tour" in McAllen, Texas on July 30, 2004, and played in 28 cities. She finished her final concert tour around her page town of Miami on the weekend of October 9th & 10th, the finale within the sold-out American Airlines Arena that was delayed for two weeks by the hurricane.

Author

Estefan published her number one book, withwithin English & Spanish, in October of 2005. A "Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog" ("Las Magicas y Misteriosas Aventuras de Un Bulldog Llamado Noelle") occurs as picture book, around verse, aimed at beginning readers. the various editions have a fresh Video (inside English & Spanish) of a song -- "Been Wishin'" -- dedicated to her real-life pet bulldog Noelle, which she composed & sings. the entertainer start up a promotional book-signing tour beginning in the fall of 2005. Estefan said around interviews that there would become ii further babies's books featuring Noelle when a title character. So these are anticipated, according to her public comments, that Estefan may focus in writing her autobiography.

A number 1 draft of the screenplay for the Connie Francis movie is complete. Casting & more preliminary pre-production function is anticipated in the next pack years.

Within January 2005, Estefan performed "My Picture"' at the pre-inaugural concert attended by President George W. Bush that saluted the U.S. war machine. A singer might, apparently, count President Bush among her fans. Around Could of 2002, she attended the celebration of the Centesimal day of remembrance of Cuba's independence hosted by President Bush. "Every time I see and hear Gloria Estefan sing, it makes my heart feel better," Bush said.

Estefan is presently planning her next album, which is the endure under her todays locate Epic Records. "I already have in mind what I want to do," she said, "but I usually wait at least a couple of years between albums." Her survive studio album was 2003's "Unwrapped." She confirmed within an locate "thinking" her next album is freed within late 2006, & said it would exist as "something similar" to 1993's "Mi Tierra," with "a lot to do with [her] roots."

Fallowing 30 years as an entertainer, Estefan's 1 unrealised aspiration is to perform -- as the gift to her mother country -- "a free concert in a free Cuba," fallowing U.S.-Cubthe relations come normalized, she said around a televised locate.

The Biography Channel profile estimated a Estefans' todays nett worth at $200 million.

Estefan presently swallow her hubby & girl in Star Island near Miami.

Charity
Around early 2005, Estefan participated inside both charity concerts to aid a sportsmen of the 2004 Asian tsunami. She sang "There's Always Tomorrow" in the survive NBC broadcast, "Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope," by owning more ace musical theater acts, that raised above $18 million dollars for the Red Cross International Response Fund. Estefan besides raised $120,000 for tsunami relief efforts with her performance at the personal benefit concert at financier Donald Trump's Mar-The-Largo resort inside Palm Beach, Florida.

A Gloria Estefan Foundation, funded around important a portion per royalties from either triad of her popular songs ("Always Tomorrow," "Coming Out of the Dark" & "Path of the Right Love") quietly disburses close to the half million dollars to various good-hearted drives annually. Created within 1997, A Gloria Estefan Foundation's guiding principle is to help victims world health organization struggle outside a safeguards of society by promoting expert health, education & ethnic development. Her foundation supports good-hearted computer program for deprived kids, to help empower immature humans across education & chance. Its mission includes funding fiscal scholarships annually for needy students, & assisting abused & neglected kids. Estefan occurs as major supporter of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, which is part of the University of Miami School of Medicine. A Miami Task is the globe's premier research facility dedicated to handling humans by having spinal cord injuries and searching for the therapeutic for paralysis. Hoarding Magazine quoted a design spokeswoman when locution the charted: "As [Miami Project's] capital campaign director, Gloria has been instrumental in helping raise more than forty million dollars . . . Without her, we would not be the largest, most comprehensive spinal-cord-injury research center in the world."

Estefan performed the potpourri of her hits culminating by having "Reach" at a 2005 Capitol For concert around Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reported: "Estefan drew the biggest reaction from the throngs, performing "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" and fending off shrieks of 'I LOVE YOU, GLORIA' from die-hards on the Capitol steps." In addition, Gloria and Emilio received the National Artistic Achievement Award in "recognition of their dedication to the arts and their contribution to enriching the national legacy of the performing arts." The presenter, actor Jimmy Smits, noted they were both musical legends and said Gloria was "a role model to millions of women." An editorial in The Miami Herald saluted the Estefans "for enriching [their] community with charitable efforts and promoting South Florida as a Hispanic entertainment mecca."

Around September, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (with unsuspecting hosts A Recording Academy pledging $1 million to help those world health organization come music agents), Estefan was honored when you took a Grammys on the Hill ceremony for her Xxx-season music career & operate supporting creative person' rights. She participated in "The Power of Music" inside Capitol Hill, which culminated in the unique jam session by having Congresswoman Connie Mack IV (R-FL) on apple shaker, & Congresswoman Mary Bono (R-CA) rattling lemin and pineapple shakers to accompany musician Dave Koz on sax, when Estefan played maracas in a rendition of her popular song, "Reach." When section of the relief effort, Estefan & hubby Emilio visited ternion shelters within Louisiana & Mississippi. Estefan sang "Coming Out of the Dark," &, along using more large Hispanic entertainers, distributed the planeload of toys & the diapers to shelter residents. A single immature evacuee said that he would never forget a visit. "Gloria brought a lot of smiles to those here today. What she did was a good thing!" Within late September Estefan, along by owning singer Queen Latifa, headlined "Miami Rocks for [Hurricane Katrina] Relief," which raised above 1 million dollars for sportsmen. The concert climaxed sustaining an Estefan/Latifa duet of "A Bridge Over Troubled Waters."

Estefan sang "I Could Fall in Love" (Selena's posthumous crossover hit) at the sold-out Selena Vive! (Selena Passes!) tribute concert honoring a late Latin mavin Selena Quintanilla. A Houston concert commemorated a tenth day of remembrance of Selena's slaying inside March of 1995. Around pre-concert comments, Estefan, a legendary lead singer of a Miami Healthy Machine, lamented the singer's dying at age Xxiii whilst she was "poised to [become a] crossover sensation" appealing to mainstream English-speaking audiences — as the result by just about a decade within Estefan's have musical footsteps. "[Selena] was on the cusp of greatness," Estefan said. Noting that she there are no elongated tours, a Houston Chronicle described Estefan's performance as "a rare treat."

Discography

Releases sustaining a Miami Healthy Machine:

Renacer (1977) Miami Healthy Machine (1978) Imported (1979) MSM (1980) Otra Vez (1981) Rio (1982) The Toda Maquina (1984) Eyes of Innocence (1984) US: Gold Primitive Love (1986) US: 3x Platinum Let It Loose (1987) US: 3x Platinum Anything For Busy people (Let It Loose, UK release) (1988)

Solo releases:

Cuts Each Ways (1989) US: 3x Plainum Exitos delaware Gloria Estefan' (1990) Into a Weak (1991) US: 2x Platinum Greatest Hits (1992) US: 4x Platinum Mi Tierra (1993) US: Platinum Christmas Across Your systems Eyes (1993) US: Platinum Hang on to Pine tree state, Thrill Pine tree state, Kiss Maine (1994) US: 2x Platinum Abriendo Puertas (1995) US: Gold Destiny (1996) US: Gold Gloria! (1998) US: Gold Alma Caribeña (2000) US: Gold Greatest Hits, Vol. Deuce (2001) Unwrapped (2003) Amor y Suerte: Exitos Romanticos (2004)

Singles

From either Eyes Of Innocence:

"Dr. Beat" (1984) #6 UK

From either Primitive Love:

"Conga" (1985) #10 US "Bad Boy" (1986) #8 Usa, #16 UK "Words Get In The Way" (1986) #5 US "Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)" (1986) #25 US

From either Let It Loose:

"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" (1987) #5 United states of america, #16 UK "Betcha Say That" (1987) #36 US "Can't Stay Away From You" (1987) #6 United states, #7 UK "Anything For You" (1988) #1 United states of america - Two weeks, #10 UK "1-2-3" (1988) #3 The states, #9 UK

From either Cuts Two Ways:

"Don't Wanna Lose You" (1989) #I America - 1 week, #6 UK "Get On Your Feet" (1989) #11 United states of america, #23 UK "Here We Are" (1989) #6 Usa, #23 UK "Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice)" (1990) #48 U.s., #16 UK "Cuts Both Ways" (1990) #44 America, #49 UK

From either Into A Weak:

"Coming Out Of The Dark" (1991) #1 Usa - Two weeks, #25 UK "Seal Our Fate" (1991) #53 United states of america, #24 UK "Can't Forget You" (1991) #43 US "Live For Loving You" (1991) #22 The states, #33 UK

From either Greatest Hits:

"Always Tomorrow" (1992) #81 The states, #24 UK "I See Your Smile" (1993) #48 The states, #48 UK

From either Hang on to Pine tree state, Thrill Maine, Kiss Maine:

"Turn The Beat Around" (1994) #13 United states, #21 UK "Everlasting Love" (1995) #27 America, #19 UK

From either Destiny:

"Reach" (1996) #42 Usa, #15 UK "You'll Be Mine (Party Time)" (1996) #70 U.s.a., #18 UK "I'm Not Giving You Up" (1996) #40 Usa, #28 UK

From either Gloria!:

"Heaven's What I Feel" (1998) #27 United states, #17 UK "Don't Let This Moment End" (1998) #76 The states, #28 UK

From either Music Of The Heart (Soundtrack):

"Music Of My Heart" (NSync w/Gloria Estefan) (1999) #2 U.s.a., #34 UK

From either Alma Caribena:

"No Me Dejes De Querer" (2000) #77 US

Filmography

Music Of The Heart (1999) FOr even Love Or United states: A Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)

Videography

Homecoming Concert (1989 SMV) Evolution (1990 SMV) Coming Away from A Dark (1991 SMV) Into A Lightly Globe Tour (1992 SMV) Everlasting Gloria! (1995 SMV) A Evolution Tour Sleep in Miami (1996 SMV) Don't Prevent (1998 SMV) Que siga la tradición (2000 SMV) Sleep in Atlantis (2001 SMV) Survive & Unwrapped (2003 SMV)

Tours

Conga Tour (1985 - 1986) Let It Free Tour (1987 - 1988) Acquire On Your Feet Tour (1989 - 1990) Into A Lightly Globe Tour (1991 - 1992) Evolution Globe Tour (1996 - 1997) Survive & Re-wrapped Tour (2004)