gloria estefan

     

In 1997 this singer & her husband opened a restaurant at Disney World called Bongo's Cuban Cafe

Trivia about gloria estefan

  • In 1989 this Miami Sound Machine singer released her first solo album "Cuts Both Ways"
  • Gloria Fajardo was the maiden name of this Havana-born singer who fled to Miami as a toddler
  • "Mi Tierra" in 1993 was the 1st solo all-Spanish album for this Cuban-born "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" singer
  • She was a freshman at the University of Miami when she joined the Miami Sound Machine in 1975
  • She got to act with Meryl Streep when she played Isabel Vasquez in "Music of the Heart"
  • ...& the Miami Sound Machine
  • Her 1991 hit "Coming Out of the Dark" was about her tour bus accident of the preceding year
  • Her father, Jose Fajardo, was once a bodyguard to Cuban president Fulgencio Batista
  • Injured in a 1990 bus accident, in 1997 she donated $250,000 to the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis