“[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous —- just like the people who drink it.”

— 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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