Gloria estefan autobiography

As a toddler Estefan fled Cuba with her family. In she met keyboardist Emilio Estefan, her future husband, who led a band called the Miami Latin Boys.

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Estefan became the lead singer and the band was renamed the Miami Sound Machine, before going on to score several Top 10 hits in the s and s. Estefan and her husband later produced a Broadway musical, On Your Feet! After coming to the United States, the elder Fajardo was recruited into the Brigade, a CIA-funded band of Cuban refugees that was involved in the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion.

After President John F. Kennedy negotiated the release of the captured soldiers, Fajardo rejoined his family. He eventually joined the U. Army and served for two years in Vietnam. As a child Estefan liked to write poetry, and though she took classical guitar lessons, she found them tedious.

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She had no inkling that she would someday become a popular music star, but music played a very important role for her as a teenager. After her father's return from Vietnam, he was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis, possibly as a result of having been exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange while serving in the Army. Estefan's mother, who had been a teacher in Cuba, worked to support the family during the day and attended school at night.

Young Gloria was left to take care of her father and younger sister. She had little social life, and because she felt the weight of such responsibilities she turned to music as a release.