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Gloria Estefan: Singer
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Gloria Estefan has scores of encomiums for her musical accomplishments, humanitarian and philanthropic work. In 2002, she received the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Medallion of Excellence for Community Service. The singer was Musicares Person of the Year in 1994.
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Grammy award-winning artist and successful entrepreneur Gloria Estefan, one of the best-selling singer/songwriters of all times, will present the closing keynote address at the conference. Estefan will conclude an exceptional program that ... includes keynote speakers Mireille Guiliano, former president and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. and best-selling author; Louise Leakey, Ph.D., world-renowned paleoanthropologist; and Dr. Nancy Snyderman, surgeon and chief medical editor for NBC News.
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In addition to her five Grammys, Estefan has received a number of other awards. In May 1993, she received the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, which is the highest award that can be given to a naturalized U.S. citizen. She has won the Hispanic Heritage Award, an MTV Video Music Award, two cable television ACE Awards and the 1993 National Music Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year award. The singer is the recipient of the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement. She ... has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her husband, Emilio, a world-renowned music impresario, received a star adjacent to his wife’s on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005.
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Two years later, in October 2006, Noelle’s Treasure Tale was published, with the text by Estefan and drawings by the 54-year-old Garland. “It went very smoothly,” the Patterson resident recalls of his collaboration with Estefan. “She’s very nice to work with.” Though the book wasn’t Garland’s first, it was his most publicized, with the singer trotting it out on national TV. None of the 20 other tomes he’s written—or the 30 more he’s illustrated—got as much attention. Still, he says his proudest career moment was when his 2003 book, Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook, won the California Young Reader’s Medal.
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Along with dozens of other prominent singers in early 2006, Estefan performed in Los Angeles at a tribute to singer Dionne Warwick’s 45-year career. Estefan sang “Walk On By,” one of Warwick’s signature songs that helped launch Warwick’s career in the mid 1960s.
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In addition to Garland’s three other just-released children’s books—King Puck, How Many Mice?, and Hooray José—he’s now at work on a third book collaboration with Estefan. For the singer behind the classic, “1-2-3,” we’d expect no less.
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