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I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

Gloria Estefan

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Gloria Estefan
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 1
Actor
Film Actor
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Havana
Cuba
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan
Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia de Estefan
Cuba
Free
Enjoy
Anything
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My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
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We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
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[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.
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Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
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I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.
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We seal our fate with the choices we make.
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[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.
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Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
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When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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When I went to do Carson that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. Conga hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case.
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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
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The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.
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I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!
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If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
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