Gloria Estefan • Shakira •
At 67, Gloria Estefan is recognized as one of the most influential Latin moves worldwide. Their contributions to music have been so many that they are no longer only limited to drawing, but is behind the career of other icons. This is the case of Shakira, who when he was just starting his career She was sheltered by the artist and her husband, Emilio Estefan.
In an interview for the Podcast Moluscotv, the couple remembered how those years were in which the Barranquilla was making their way in the American industry.
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“She didn’t talk about English and Gloria put her until 3 and 4 in the morning teaching her”the man revealed, who, by the way, was his producer for 14 years, coming to work in his first three albums.
“I said ‘You can, Shaki’,” Gloria Estefan recalled, who at all times believed in the Colombian singer: “I admired her very much, she is a poet.” Such was his admiration and his vision that even arrived in front of the musical entrepreneur Tommy Mottola to carry out his career. The American served as director of Sony Music.
“I fought hard with Shakira because when she entered, that it was going to be the album in Spanish with Emilio, I said ‘You can do it in English, the sound of yours favors you,” said the artist.
And it is that the records of the record was different and Shakira was also doubting, so Estefan herself recorded the versions of ‘Ineitable ‘and’ Eyes like this’, managing to convince her: “As she is so intelligent, so fighter and so hardworking, I sat with her to make the recording phonetically and knew she could explode.”
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The ‘fight’ with Tommy Mottola
According to the story that Estefan told, “His (Mottola) was to get only a couple of issues in English on his album in Spanish and I told him ‘Tomy, his audience in Spanish wants to hear it in Spanish and the public in English will not buy a record just for two songs. She can'”.
The above led to A threat from the Executive: “That will fail and if it fails it will be your fault,” he said, and Gloria’s response was “And if it is a success, it will be mine too. ”
The rest is history. Laundry service either Laundry Service It is the fifth studio album and first in English recorded by Shakira, and positioned it on the world map. For the couple, this is a huge reason for pride, as it demonstrates the power of Latinos and? “When a Latin triumphs, we all succeed”.
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