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Gloria Estefan: Get On Your Feet, A Career That Could Have Ended in Tragedy(Revised)
There are several well-known music icons who have struggled with depression, such as Mindy Mccready, Naomi Judd, and others. However, there are some music icons, including Gloria Estefan, who are determined to return to the stage with everything they have.
In 1957, Gloria Estefan was born Gloria Fajardo in Havana, Cuba. Her family fled the country when Gloria was a toddler. She met her future husband, keyboardist Emilio Estefan, in 1975, who was a member of a band called the Miami Latin Boys. The band was renamed the Miami Sound Machine after Estefan became the lead singer. The band scored several top ten hits during the 1980s and 1990s.
As a child, Gloria Estefan wrote poetry and studied classical guitar, which she found tedious. She had no idea that someday she would become a popular and well-loved music star.
Upon the return of her father from Vietnam when she was a teenager, he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and music became her escape. As a result of meeting Keyboardist Emilio Estefan, who would later become her husband, she would become the lead singer in the band, which would later be renamed The Miami Sound Machine. Song such as The Conga would propel her to stardom.
