Estefan is considered one of the most influential people in Latin music and has received numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career.
MIAMI, United States. — The Cuban-American musician, producer and businessman Emilio Estefan, icon of the Cuban community in the United States, turns 70 this Saturday.
Estefan is considered one of the most influential people in Latin music and has received numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career.
Next, we review some passages from both his personal life and his successful artistic career.
- He was born on March 4, 1953 in Santiago de Cuba. He is of Lebanese, Spanish and Syrian ancestry.
- He left Cuba with his father and lived for a time in Spain before finally settling in Miami, United States, in 1968.
- According to different biographical references, during his early days in Miami he earned his living doing errands for his neighbors using a used car.
- She worked in local beauty pageants and at Bacardi, where she was hired for the mailroom department. Later, he was promoted to the marketing department for Latin America.
- During his beginnings in music he formed a group called Miami Latin Boyswhich achieved success and began receiving contracts to play at various private events and parties in the Miami area.
- as a member of Miami Latin Boys met Gloria Estefanthen Gloria Fajardo, to whom he offered to join the group, which was renamed Miami Sound Machine.
- Gloria’s definitive entry into the band, in which Emilio played the accordion, occurred in 1977.
- In 1978 he married Gloria Estefan. According to the singer herself, the wedding included catering, music from a DJ and 200 guests, so “it became a big party.”
- The success of the Miami Sound Machine skyrocketed in the early eighties after Emilio Estefan himself signed an exclusive contract with the CBS company.
- Gloria Estefan’s success as a solo artist had repercussions on Emilio Estefan, who soon became a producer for well-known Latin American artists.
- He was an arranger for singers and groups such as Azúcar Moreno, Thalía, Shakira, Charlie Zaa, Ricky Martin, Natalia Jiménez, Carlos Vives and Cristian Castro, among many others.
- He has won two Grammy Awards, six Latin Grammy Awards—including Producer of the Year in 2000—and a special award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for person of the year for his contribution to the music industry.
