SIMON BUTTON
Now 61, Gloria Estefan has been involved in music for over 40 years. In 2015, she received the Presidential Medal Of Freedom for her contributions to American music.
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Classing herself as “a bit psychic”, Gloria Estefan recalls telling husband Emilio back in the 70s: “I think we’re gonna be famous and I think we’re gonna be famous all over the world.” Four decades later, the Miami Sound Machine frontwoman-turned-solostar adds: “I believed in the music and I didn’t know how it was going to happen but I just knew something was gonna happen.”