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When she was young, she was raised Catholic and let go of her faith. Her father was in a bodyguard for Cuba's leader, dictator Fulgencio Batista. When Fidel Catsro took over a year later. Gloria Estefan and her family had to flee the country and move to Miami. Gloria's father had joined the U.S.A military. He was later on captured by his own cousins. John F. Kennedy had to negotiate with Gloria's father's release. Her father had to be transferred to many different places around the world. He finally landed in the Vietnam War. When he was in Vietnam, he was exposed to Agent Orange chemical. Gloria was the one that was most in charge of doing the chores around the house and taking care of her father most of the day. Her mother would help Gloria but she can't because she works away from home and has college classes. Gloria would lock herself in her room to play her guitar. She said it would be her escape from life stresses.

When Gloria was in high school, she wanted to join a band named "The Miami Latin Boys". The band told her that she could show them how she sings so she can join the band. When they heard her sing, they were amazed as how good she was. Emilio Estefan, the leader of the band, told her that she could join the band. Since Gloria was apart of the band, they changed their band name to "The Miami Sound Machine". Gloria fell in love with Emilio and got married September 2, 1978. They had a son on September 2, 1980. Her son's name is Nayib Estefan. Gloria and Emilio also had a girl in December 5, 1994. Gloria's daughter name is Emily Estefan. Gloria thought she would never have children after she got hit by a trailer. After everything that has happened she was still able to recover from her injury.

Gloria won many awards and accomplished many goals in her life. Gloria was not always known by the world. Gloria was not only very famous in non-latin countries. She gotten help by Dr.Beat who made her famous in the European countries. Her first English album was "Primitive Love". A couple of her other albums were 'Cuts Both Ways", "Let It Loose", and "Into the Light". She released an album called "Gloria's Greatest Hits", which was an international hit. Gloria was the first pop star to preform in front of the Pope. Gloria was nominated seven Grammy's from 1989 to 2014, but she only one three. She worked on a song with a famous American singer, Pharrell Williams. She was nominated for the Hispanic Heritage Award. She also has her own Hollywood Star in Hollywood Walk of fame.

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