Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Estefan (née Fajardo García) was born on September 1, 1957, in Havana, Cuba. She is known as an eight-time Grammy Award winner, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and honored as one of the Top 100 greatest artists of all time by both VH1 and Billboard. With record sales exceeding 100 million worldwide, she is one of the best-selling female singers of all time. Estefan's career took off as the lead singer of Miami Latin Boys, later renamed Miami Sound Machine. Her 1985 single "Conga" achieved worldwide success and became Estefan's signature song. After a life-threatening incident in 1990, she made an impressive recovery and comeback with a worldwide tour and album, Into the Light. Later, she released Mi Tierra, her Spanish-language album, which won her first Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album. Estefan has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Las Vegas Walk of Fame, and was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 2017. She has become the 3rd most successful Latina and 23rd greatest Latin Artist of all time in the U.S., accumulating 38 number one hits across Billboard charts and hailed as the "Queen of Latin Pop" by the media. Estefan became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1974 under the name Gloria Garcia Fajardo. She continues her successful music career, her extensive work in the film and television industry, and her philanthropic endeavors into the present.