“My home is my paradise. When I come home at night, I feel an overall peaceful sensation. We will never give this place up.”

—  Gloria Estefan

People en Espanol magazine (April, 2004)
2007, 2008

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Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

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