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Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

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
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Mystical
Incredibly
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Powerful
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
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I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.
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[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.
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One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.
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Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
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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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I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.
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My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.
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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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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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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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The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.
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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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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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Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.
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I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.
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There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.
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