“I'd lock myself up in my room with my guitar. I wouldn't cry. I was afraid if I let go just a little bit, it would all go. I would sing for hours by myself.... It was my way of crying.”

—  Gloria Estefan

Entertainment Weekly (30 July 1993)
2007, 2008

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Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

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