“Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.”

— Gloria Estefan

comment to USA Today newspaper (September 15, 2005) explaining why she, Emilio and other prominent Hispanic entertainers personally delivered a planeload of toys and other aid to three shelters with Hurricane Katrina victims
2007, 2008

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Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

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