My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

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• Gloria Estefan:

  My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music

• Gloria Estefan:

  I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this

• Gloria Estefan:

  People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we lo

• Gloria Estefan:

  The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After

• Gloria Estefan:

  Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and

• Gloria Estefan:

  Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

• Gloria Estefan:

  I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, th

• Gloria Estefan:

  I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have d

• Gloria Estefan:

  When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They wer

• Gloria Estefan:

  I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.