They recognize Gloria's career in Spain

Ceremony. The Minister of Culture José Guirao, Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio during childbirth. (ARCHIVE)

Singer Gloria Estefan receives the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts

Preparing a new record already recorded in Brazil, The singer, composer and actress Gloria Estefan received yesterday the Medal Gold Award of Merit of Fine Arts from the Minister of Culture and Sports, José Guirao.

At a ceremony held at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Estefan thanked the medal with emotion, which distinguishes the people and entities who have excelled in the field of artistic and cultural creation.

Considered the "Mother of Latino Pop", Gloria Estefan has won several awards and recognitions, including seven Grammy Awards, recently recorded her new album in Brazil and for that, absorbed the Brazilian rhythms and included songs in Spanish and English

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2015 on the President of the United States Barack Obama, gave him, along with her husband, Emilio Estefan, the medal of the freedom of this country.

Estefan is one of the best-selling musical artists, since she has sold more than 100 million records across the country.

Of white dress fitted and accompanied of her husband Estefan, "because without him it would not have been possible to receive this medal", the singer of Cuban origin, granddaughter of the Spanish emigrants, Asturias, pointed out that her grandfather Leonard "He was one of the most important people of my life. "

" Spain is in my heart, but I also wanted to receive this medal with Emilio because without him I would not have won either, he is a motivating man. First and only, good deals have made with me, but we have done all of this together. "

He also thanked Luis Merino," that if it was for him, Spain might not have listened to the record of Mi tierra, because he listened, loved and thought that he was not the only one. in Spain he would have a lot of acceptance, being then the country where this album broke a record. "

He pointed out that," in Spain they already knew me with records like Conga and themes in English, but Mi tierra that has opened me another way in this country, it was important for me to sing here in my native language, spanish.

He remembered that it was his language that had instilled in him his tongue, and in his house he spoke only Spanish. "Spain has always been a big part of who I am," he said and commented that his first great musical idol was Joselito, from whom he learned all the songs and were the first ones He sang. in his life.

With the delivery of this medal C & # 39; is an express wish of Estefan who, for reasons of force majeure, was unable to attend the presentation of his medal, last February, to the awards ceremony presided over by the King and Queen of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia. Pompidou Museum in Malaga, Southern Spain

"My soul shattered when I could not be there to receive it from the hands of kings, but there were very special hands that belonged to my family, who have was presented by me and I believe He shared the fact that "my mother, who was going nowhere, had the intention of coming with me to receive him, but she died in June of the same year. last year, and I know she's here with us, but I want to thank all my Asturian family who are here to receive it. "

The Minister of Culture and Sports, José Guirao, pointed out Gloria Estefan's work to spread Latino culture and build bridges within the culture.

"You are the ho engineer I would like to build cultural bridges in the Spanish-speaking world.I do not know anyone who did such work and had the complicity, the wealth, and transcended a barrier as complex as that of the United States, "he concluded.

Joselito, his first idol

Without words to explain his emotion for the Gold Medal of Fine Arts in Spain, an act in which he showed his Spanish roots, Gloria said that his first musical idol was Joselito and from him the first songs that he sang.

"My first musical idol was Joselito and his first songs that I sang, he went to all his movies with my grandfather Leonardo and thought it was very funny." Spanish music touched my heart and continued in me he never forgets his roots, "he said.

Ceremony. The Minister of Culture José Guirao, Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio during the delivery. (ARCHIVE)

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