Gloria Estefan has at all times turned to music as an “escape.”
The 66-year-old singer and her household fled Cuba and moved to the USA amid the Cuban Revolution, and Gloria admits that music has at all times helped her via her most troublesome occasions.
Throughout an look on the YouTube collection 'The Thread,' Gloria shared: “When the [Fidel] Castro's forces arrived, my father instructed my mom that he wanted to get us out of Cuba. “My mom instructed him, 'They're going to arrest you,' and that's precisely what occurred.”
Gloria ultimately found that music helped her escape her issues.
She mentioned: “Music moved me. It was my escape.”
Gloria has loved a vastly profitable profession within the music enterprise and is conscious that she is now ready to encourage others.
She defined: “I’d by no means have imagined being an artist. However I can encourage people who find themselves going via their very own struggles and that gave a lot function to my fame.”
Final yr, Gloria confessed that music has helped her “in very troublesome moments” in her life.
The award-winning star instructed Billboard: “For me, the lyrics and the music have been one thing that made me sit down with the data and skim who wrote every thing. I learn the lyrics, I absorbed them! It helped me via very troublesome occasions.
“So, as a younger musician again then, different individuals's music was my lifeline in troublesome occasions.”
Gloria later acknowledged that her music has helped different individuals in equally troublesome occasions.
She mentioned: “Music has at all times been probably the most stunning factor in my life, so the truth that my songs are that to different individuals is one thing actually particular; it's a privilege that I don't take calmly.”