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Gloria Estefan: Emilio Estefan
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Gloria Estefan was on a roll. 1989's Cuts Both Ways was credited to Estefan alone and generated her second number one hit, "Don't Wanna Lose You"; ... while touring in support of the album, on March 20, 1990, her bus was struck by a tractor-trailer. She suffered a broken vertebrae that required extensive surgery and kept her off the road for over a year. Emilio Estefan and the couple's son were injured in the crash as well, but all three recovered. Estefan resurfaced in 1991 with Into the Light, again topping the charts with "Coming Out of the Dark," a single inspired by her near-fatal accident; two more cuts from the album, "Can't Forget You" and "Live for Loving You," secured her foothold on the adult contemporary charts.
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Gloria Estefan makes her visits to Sesame Street a family affair. On a recent appearance, the queen of Latin pop brought along her husband, producer/songwriter Emilio Estefan, Jr., and her 4-year-old daughter Emily to watch the taping. Emily ... came along the last time her mom appeared on the show.
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Gloria Estefan co-directed, along with husband Emilio Estefan, the music video for the first single "Wrapped"/"Hoy". For the first time ever, the sacred land of Machu Picchu was used for the filming of a music video.
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In 1975, when Gloria was 17, she met Emilio Estefan, an extraordinarily industrious 23-year-old Cuban refugee who was 15 when he came to Miami and moved into an apartment jammed with 15 aunts and cousins. With a beat-up Volkswagen, he started running errands for the old Cuban women of the neighborhood, for tips. He added to his nest egg with entry fees for beauty pageants he staged, keeping his costs down by recycling funeral-wreath ribbons to make the contestants' sashes. He got a job in the mail room at Bacardi Imports, a job that 12 years later had led him to become director of Bacardi's Latin marketing.
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In 1975 Gloria met keyboardist Emilio Estefan, a sales manager for the rum dealer Bacardi who ... led a band called the Miami Latin Boys. The band played popular Latin music, but because there was no lead singer, the quartet members took turns singing. A mutual friend asked Emilio to advise Gloria and some friends about organizing a band for a special event. Emilio heard Gloria sing, and when he met her again at a wedding at which the Miami Latin Boys were entertaining, he asked her to sit in with the band. A few weeks later Emilio asked Gloria to perform as lead singer with the band, and she accepted.
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Gloria became romantically involved with the Miami Sound Machine's band leader, Emilio Estefan, in 1976. She and Emilio married on September 2, 1978. They have a son, Nayib (born September 2, 1980) and a daughter, Emily Marie (born December 5, 1994).
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