Two decades of signature U.S. and international hits by the five-time Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, producer, novelist, actor, and philanthropist who is regarded as the primary force behind today's English language Latin pop crossover success, are gathered for the first time on The Essential Gloria Estefan.
The two-CD collection, containing 37 songs will arrive in stores October 3rd on Epic/Legacy, a division of
Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
Few (if any) contemporary artists possess the body of work that can be divided between one entire disc of uptempo dance club and remix material and a second CD of ballads - but that is the case with The Essential Gloria Estefan.
Spanning the years 1984-85, when the Big Bang of Latin pop crossover began with the first two English language LPs by Miami Sound Machine - Eyes Of Innocence with "Dr. Beat" and Primitive Love with "Conga" - all the way through her most recent English language album, 2003's Unwrapped, the non-chronological collection shuffles the chapters of Gloria Estefan's musical life with bravura and finesse.
