1957-09-01 ( 67 years old ) in Havana, Cuba
Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a seven-time Grammy Award winner, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and has been named one of the Top 100 greatest artists of all time by both VH1 and Billboard. Estefan's record sales exceed 75 million worldwide, making her the second best selling female latin artist in history and one of the best-selling female singers of all-time.
A contralto, Estefan started her career as lead singer of Miami Latin Boys, which was later renamed Miami Sound Machine. She and Miami Sound Machine earned worldwide success with their 1985 single "Conga", which became Estefan's signature song and led to Miami Sound Machine winning the 15th annual Tokyo Music Festival's grand prix in 1986. In 1988, she and Miami Sound Machine achieved their first number-one hit with "Anything for You". Estefan is credited with breaking down barriers and opening doors for Latin musicians, including Selena, Jon Secada, Shakira and Ricky Martin.
In March 1990, Estefan sustained a life-threatening cervical vertebrae fracture when her tour bus was involved in a serious accident near Scranton, Pennsylvania. She underwent an emergency surgical stabilization of her cervical spine and post-surgical rehabilitation that lasted almost a year, but made a full recovery. A year later, in March 1991, Estefan launched her comeback with a worldwide tour and album, Into the Light.
Estefan's 1993 Spanish-language album Mi Tierra won the first of her three Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Latin Album. Mi Tierra immediately soared to the top of the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart upon its release. The album was also the first Diamond album in Spain.
Many of Estefan's songs, including "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You", "1-2-3", "Don't Wanna Lose You", "Get On Your Feet", "Here We Are", "Coming Out of the Dark", "Bad Boy", "Oye!", "Party Time" and a remake of "Turn the Beat Around," became international chart-topping hits.
In addition to winning three Grammy Awards and being a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Estefan has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Las Vegas Walk of Fame, and was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 2017 for her contributions to American cultural life. Estefan also won an MTV Video Music Award, was honored with the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement, and has been named BMI Songwriter of the Year. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has received multiple Billboard awards.
Billboard has listed Estefan as the third Most Successful Latina and 23rd Greatest Latin Artist of all time in US, based on both Latin albums and Latin songs chart. Hailed as the "Queen of Latin Pop" by the media, she has amassed 38 number one hits across Billboard charts, including 15 chart-topping songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Rolling Stone has ranked her 1985 hit "Conga" the 11th Greatest Latin Pop Songs of all time. Richard Blanco, the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Poet, told The Boston Globe in 2020 that Estefan is among the Latin singers who helped him gain ground "in the musical poetry of my culture and rejuvenate my spirits".
Movies
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Diane Warren: Relentless
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Brisa
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Homenaje María Teresa Campos
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Heartbreakers at the BBC
2023-02-11
Jose Feliciano: Behind This Guitar
2022-09-28
Father of the Bride
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Carlos Rivera: leyendas
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Miami Wild
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Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
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Vivo
2021-07-30
Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba
2021-07-17
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
2021-04-26
Siempre, Luis
2020-01-25
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018-12-09
America's Musical Journey
2018-05-17
A Change of Heart
2017-03-10
First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb
2015-11-20
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015-11-16
A MusiCares Tribute to Carole King
2015-06-23
The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank
2015-04-29
The Latino List
2011-09-29
A Step from Heaven
2009-04-15
Celia: The Queen
2008-04-26
Selena ¡Vive!
2005-04-07
Gloria Estefan: Live and Unwrapped
2004-02-10
Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar!
2004-01-27
All the Way... A Decade of Song and Video
2001-02-20
Gloria Estefan - Live in Atlantis
2000-05-12
Music of the Heart
1999-10-29
Little Angelita
1999-01-01
Gloria Estefan: Live by Request
1998-11-03
Gloria Estefan: Don't Stop
1998-09-11
VH1: Divas Live
1998-04-14
Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years
1998-04-11
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998-02-20
Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party
1997-02-28
Gloria Estefan: The Best of
1997-02-17
1996 VH1 Honors
1996-03-31
Somos un solo pueblo
1995-12-03
Gloria Estefan - Everlasting Gloria!
1995-10-03
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993-05-09
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992-04-11
Gloria Estefan – Into the Light World Tour
1992-01-01
Sid & Marty Krofft's Redeye Express
1988-03-09
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