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The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

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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I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
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Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
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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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It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.
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I'm happy and I have a great life.
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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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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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I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.
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Getting this caliber of musicians together [for 90 Millas CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
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It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
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I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.
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[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
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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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I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
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Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
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