Gloria Estefan

Person · Open Library

Born

01 September 1957

Works

12

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1957-09-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

772,188

Total plays

7,859,990

Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Fajardo, September 1, 1957, in Havana, Cuba) is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actress and social activist. Known as the "Queen of Latin Pop", she in the top 100 best-selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those in the United States. Estefan is the most successful crossover performer in Latin music to date. Beginning her career in 1975 as lead vocalist for the then exclusively Spanish-language ba

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

   · 2012 · cited 6,830x

2. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,817x

3. Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,626x

4. Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

   · 1995 · cited 5,271x

5. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

   · 2018 · cited 4,776x

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Quotes

• “Now my life is pretty much bliss. I have two healthy children and a great marriage (Emilio and I have been together for 28 years). I still have one ambition: to do a concert in Cuba. It's the beginning of the end for Castro and, well, I've performed for every audience of practically every nationality except my own. Performing there would be one of the highlights of my life.”
• “Music should always be a means of bridging gaps and uniting people. The beauty of music is that it can -- and should -- gather a wide variety of concepts in a way that's universal.”
• “The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.”
• “I do [like being a redhead] . . . I do . . . because lighter is better as you get older . . . It's nice . . . I can't be a blonde. I'm definitely not a blonde . . . So, that doesn't leave too many other colors available.”
• “When I first came to Miami [in 1959], you'd see signs like "No Children, No Pets, No Cubans." We were a major threat. We lived in a very small apartment behind the Orange Bowl, where all the Cubans lived. All the men (including my father, Jose Manuel Fajardo) were political prisoners in Cuba, and it was purely women and their kids. There was one car the whole community bought for $50, and the one lady that could drive would take everybody to the supermarket and the Laundromat.”

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