Artist: Gloria Estefan
Genre(s):
Other
Pop
Latin
Pop: Latin
Jazz
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
90 Millas
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Essential (Australian Import)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 37
Gloria!
Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
Abriendo Puertas
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Mi Tierra
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Greatest Hits
Year: 1992
Tracks: 18
Unwrapped
Year:
Tracks: 18
Destiny
Year:
Tracks: 11
Alma Caribeca
Year:
Tracks: 13
As one of the biggest new stars to emerge during the mid-'80s, isaac Bashevis Singer Gloria Estefan predated the orgasm Latin pop detonation by a x, grading a serial of propulsive dance hits rooted in the rhythms of her native Cuba ahead shifting her focus to softer, more than ballad-oriented fare. Born Gloria Fajardo in Havana on September 1, 1957, she was raised in the first-class honours degree place in Miami, FL, after her father, a bodyguard in the use of Cuban chair Fulgencio Batista, was constrained to fly the island undermentioned the 1959 coup helmed by Fidel Castro. In the fall of 1975, Fajardo and her number one cousin Merci Murciano auditioned for the Miami Latin Boys, a local hymeneals band headed by keyboardist Emilio Estefan. With their addition, the grouping was rechristened Miami Sound Machine and 4 eld after, Fajardo and Estefan were wed. As Miami Sound Machine began composition their have original material, their fusion of pop, disco music, and salsa earned a devoted local following, and in 1979 the grouping issued their number 1 Spanish-language LP on CBS International. Despite a growing Hispanic fan home, they did non traverse over to non-Latin audiences until "Dr. Beat" topped European dance charts in 1984.
With 1985's Primitive Love, Miami Sound Machine recorded their first English-language drive, grading trey Top Ten pop hits in the U.S. unequalled with the infective "Conga," "Forged Boy," and "Words Get in the Way." For 1988's triple-platinum Get It Loose, the grouping was billed as Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, reeling off four Top Ten hits -- "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," "Can't Stay Away from You," the chart-topping "Anything for You," and "1-2-3." 1989's Cuts Both Ways was credited to Estefan unequalled and generated her instant number one hit, "Don't Wanna Lose You"; however, patch touring in funding of the record album, on March 20, 1990, her busbar was smitten by a tractor lagger. She suffered a broken vertebrae that compulsory blanket surgery and kept her off the road for over a year. Emilio Estefan and the couple's son were injured in the crash as well, but all trey recovered. Estefan resurfaced in 1991 with Into the Light, once more topping the charts with "Advent Out of the Dark," a individual divine by her near-fatal accident; deuce more cuts from the album, "Can't Forget You" and "Live for Loving You," secured her foothold on the adult contemporary charts.
With 1993's Mi Tierra, Estefan returned to her roots, transcription her number 1 Spanish-language record in close to a decade and earning a Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album; on the follow-up, 1994's covers collecting Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me, she also recalled her dance-pop origins with a rendition of the Vicki Sue Robinson disco classic "Turn the Beat Around." Another all-Spanish effort, Abriendo Puertas, earned the Grammy as well, piece Destiny featured "Reach," named the official theme of the 1996 Summer Olympics. As Latin pop made new commercial-grade head thanks to the efforts of acts of the Apostles like Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias, Estefan reigned as the most successful crossover voter creative person in Latin music history, with outside record gross revenue shut down to the 50 trillion mark. In 1999, she also made her feature film debut aboard Meryl Streep in Music of the Heart, recording the film's title song as a duet with *NSYNC and grading both a massive pop hit and an Oscar nomination in the process.
A new Spanish-language album, Alma Caribeña, followed in the spring of 2000. Several months by and by, Estefan was awarded a Grammy for Best Music Video for "No Me Dehes de Querer" at the first annual Latin Grammy Awards. Her hubby, Emilio, south Korean won for Producer of the Year. In 2003 Estefan released Unwrapped, an English-language effort that met a half-hearted reception from consumers and critics. She didn't retrovert with some other new record album for several eld, as make-do compilations such as Amor y Suerte: Exitos Romanticos (2004), The Essential Gloria Estefan (2006), and Oye Mi Canto: Los Éxitos (2006) were released from time to prison house term. When she did retrovert, with 90 Millas in 2007, it was with a slosh. The Cuban-themed, Spanish-language elbow grease hearkened back to Mi Tierra and was a large hit on the Latin music scene; its lead single, "No Llores," quickly scaled Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart, and the album itself was a chart-topper as well.
