Play Gloria Estefan Radio

Gloria Estefan

1,681,601 plays (215,339 listeners)

131 shouts

Add to my Library Share

(1975 – present)

Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Fajardo, September 1, 1957, in Havana, Cuba) is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, and is in the top 100 best-selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, 26.5 million of those in the United States, placing her among the most successful crossover performers in Latin music to date.

Beginning her career in 1975 as lead vocalist for the then exclusively Spanish-language band, Miami Sound Machine, before crossing over to mainstream pop success with the international hit singles “Dr. Beat” (1984) and “Conga” (1986), Estefan emerged as one of the biggest new stars in the mid-’80s, predating the still nascent Latin pop explosion by a decade, and scoring a series of propulsive dance hits rooted in the rhythms of her native Cuba, before shifting her focus to softer, more ballad-oriented fare.

Born in Havana, Cuba, the young Gloria Fajardo was raised primarily in Miami, FL, after her father, a bodyguard of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, was forced to flee the island following the 1959 coup helmed by Fidel Castro. In the fall of 1975, Fajardo and her cousin Merci Murciano auditioned for the Miami Latin Boys, a local wedding band headed by keyboardist Emilio Estefan.
Read more… Edit

Tagged as:

latin, pop, female vocalists, 80s, latin pop
See more…

Top Albums

See more

Top Tracks

1 Play
Love On Layaway full track
2,806
2 Play
2,485
3 Play
Conga full track
668
4 Play
273
5 Play
207
6 Play
195
7  
183
8 Play
168
9 Play
Hoy full track
148
10 Play
Anything For You full track
131
11 Play
127
12 Play
Here We Are full track
118
13 Play
115
14 Play
Get on Your Feet full track
106
14 Play
106
See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
See all 131 shouts

Videos

See more

News

Listen To Gloria Estefan's Conga Remix

5 Nov 2009 | from www.gloriaestefan.com/cms/index.php/component/content/frontpage.html

Gloria Estefan Conga Remix Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.47!

Add comment

See more

Listeners

See more

Recent Activity

Related Journals

See more

Groups (46)

See more

More Information

Links
Labels
“Choosy Mothers Choose Last.fm.”

More Last.fm Sites: Blog | Music Manager | Build | Playground | Best of 2009

Popular on CBS sites: Fantasy Football | Madden NFL10 | PGA Championship | iPhone | Video Game Reviews | US Open | Antivirus Software

© 2010 Last.fm Ltd. All rights reserved. | Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | Updated November 21, 2008
Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Text may also be available under the GNU Free Documentation License.