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If ever there was a person who should be credited for bringing the Latin sound to America, it should be Gloria Estefan. Her path from obscurity to stardom has been both tragic and triumphant, starting in the mid 1970s when she became the lead singer of the Miami Latin Boys, later to be known as the Miami Sound Machine. After twenty years of musical success, Estefan continued her career in a solo function that has given her international recognition.
The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Estefan grew up in one of the poorest sections of Miami, Florida. As a shy, overweight teenager, Estefan often played her guitar and sang to distract herself from the hardships of life. She became somewhat of a second mother to her sister and nursed her father who suffered from complications due to exposure of Agent Orange while in Vietnam. She met her future husband, Emilio Estefan, while at a wedding in 1975 in which she was asked to sing a few songs. Within a year, she was singing w...
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