Summary
Gloria Estefan, Updated Edition profiles a performer who opened the door for Latin music everywhere. This comprehensive biography describes Estefan's personal and public life, her exciting rise to international success, and highlights of her multifaceted career, including the challenges, controversies, and adversity she has overcome.
Gloria Estefan is one of the most successful Latin American recording stars of all time. Both as a soloist and with her former band, Miami Sound Machine, Estefan helped bring Latin music to a wider audience and gained international celebrity status both for her talent and good nature. Her story is also one of struggle, having fled her native Cuba as a child and having survived a near-fatal bus accident in 1990. But through her determination and strong personal beliefs, she has managed to use her hardships as inspiration for her music.