“We spent all our time lighting candles in the churches and praying for father's safe return. But even then [1961 and 1962], as a little girl, I knew that he was really in prison and that God had nothing to do with it. Since then I have never had any belief in religion.”

— Gloria Estefan

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Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

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