The most successful Latin American singer of the 1980s and 1990s, Gloria Estefan
(born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García on September 1, 1957) has sold more
than 90 million albums worldwide. After moving from Cuba to Miami when she was
just two, Estefan grew up singing and playing the guitar. She first found
success as part of Miami Sound Machine, featuring Emilio Estefan whom she
married in 1978, and the group's string of Spanish-language albums proved a hit
across the US, Europe and in Latin America throughout the 1980s. Buoyed by the
popularity of their female lead singer,...