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MrNinoBrown1906@reddit

Afrika Bambaataa died today and is legendary in hip hop. No mention of honor yet on this sub

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Fun story. I was just in Miami last weekend and we took a "Millionaire's boat tour." We passed Gloria and Emilio Estefan's houses. I say houses because they're on the same property, but they have separate dwellings, which is my actual dream situation.

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Scherzkeks@reddit

As some who has cats who met someone with a cat that fights with my cats—can’t tell you how much I dream about this

Of that the cats will one day get along for the ultimate cuddle pile

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Particular_Special70@reddit

No for real though. “Living apart together” truly is the only option for me to be a relationship moving forward! I value my own space and energy way too much to share. (Pending disastrous economy of course. Ugh)

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drtyhppi@reddit

House divorce 🤣

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IkariYun@reddit

She made her money and went home to live a quiet and happy life

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ThinkFree@reddit

That would be Enya. Bought a castle and lives with her cats.

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IkariYun@reddit

Living my dream

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CloseButNoChicory@reddit

Your dream is to live with Enya's cats? 😋

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IkariYun@reddit

Don't forget the castle

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lellywest@reddit

She did not. She is still working.

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IkariYun@reddit

🤫😉

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PhoneJazz@reddit

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InformationAny643@reddit

I was just thinking about her recently and started a playlist of her songs, along with the Miami Sound Machine.

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QueenLeo41@reddit

Gloria is that girl. I remember her being everywhere as a child. I'm still a huge fan of hers. Her "Miami305" album is the shit! I tell people all the time. Before Jlo, Before Christina, Before Shakria there was Gloria. 😘🌻❤️

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Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

Talk about her? My wife has met/hung out with her a few times at local charity events. Aside from her lasting cultural impact on pop music and Miami in general, she supports several local charities that focus on housing and support for women and children that have survived domestic violence. So, while she may not be a huge topic of conversation across the country and world, locally (here in Miami) she is still very well known and respected.

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Mudcreek47@reddit

The rhythm is gonna get you.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

It did, so I called Dr. Beat.

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TheVexingRose@reddit

I used to play this song for my youngest. She thought the "rhythm" was some type of monster that was coming for her, so we would say "the rhythm! It's coming! It's going to get you!" She would run and hide. Great for a quick bathroom break when she wouldn't leave me alone.

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JackTrippin@reddit

It got me once in a Trader Joe's. I almost didn't make it out alive.

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MaxxHeadroomm@reddit

Did you turn the beat around?

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t_bone_stake@reddit

Did you get on your feet?

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Legitimate_Bird_5712@reddit

THE TRADER IS GONNA GET YOU!

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lavasca@reddit

Your pineapples were upside down. Didn’t anybody tell you that it counts even if they are chopped up or frozen containers?

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coaxialology@reddit

You know you're at a certain age when you're rocking out to the bangers at the grocery store.

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Jermine1269@reddit

It was Weezer or No Doubt the other day. I just looked at my wife and cried!! My almost 10 yr old pointed and laughed.

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Awkward-Owl4345@reddit

Walk without rhytm, it won't attract the worm...

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LordChauncyDeschamps@reddit

Oh eh oh eh!

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actualelainebenes@reddit

Oh ay yo oh wah

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LordChauncyDeschamps@reddit

Yah yeah go

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majorjoe23@reddit

All I can think about is Leslie Knope's attempt to cross the ice to "Get On Your Feet."

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actualelainebenes@reddit

I’m actually going to Miami next week and now I feel like I need to listen to this song on repeat

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SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit

Is the sound machine still working?

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Sad_Training_1595@reddit

Only if you feed it yayo.

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twinkiesandcake@reddit

I hope that she's making bank from being sampled like crazy in new music.

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actualelainebenes@reddit

“Either he got good news or Gloria Estefan was right…eventually the rhythm IS going to get you” -Chandler Bing

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bell83@reddit

This line lives rent free in my head. Any time Gloria comes up, I hear Matthew Perry :)

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actualelainebenes@reddit

Every time this song comes on I think of this moment 😂

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Puzzleheaded-Sky3141@reddit

Whooooomp

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macroeconprod@reddit

It'll get you when you least expect it.

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TryTwiceAsHard@reddit

Her Come In Out of the Dark was a huge deal. However I've done been disappointed to hear from very many people in the business that she's rude and insufferable.

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lellywest@reddit

I’ve heard just as many stories that she’s lovely, soo… people always have opinions about celebrities. And people who dislike or badmouth her might just disagree with her politically or something. She’s a pretty outspoken liberal, and in a place like Florida that’ll get you labeled “insufferable” pretty quickly.

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cranberries87@reddit

She’s liberal? I swear I heard she was MAGA somewhere on Reddit.

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TryTwiceAsHard@reddit

Omg I'd be so disappointed if she were MAGA. I can not wrap my head around POC supporting that freak. Hell, I can't wrap my head around white people supporting him.

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RoyalDuderina@reddit

She is decidedly not MAGA. A lot of the older Cuban community turned on her when they realized that.

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cranberries87@reddit

Sounds like I got some bad information. 🫣Can’t believe everything you read on Reddit or the internet, that’s for sure!

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TeddyGrahamNap@reddit (OP)

She's very close with her daughter who is a soft bitch lesbian, and she sounds exactly like Gloria!

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lellywest@reddit

lol

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TryTwiceAsHard@reddit

I live and work in Hollywood so I have insider info, not just how she treats fans when she's "on". You might too, not saying otherwise. But yeah, she's really not well liked in the industry. However that said, she's been through a lot and some people just do not appreciate a strong woman.

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swatson7856@reddit

As someone who lived through WSVN-7's 24-hour news coverage of her 1990 bus crash, I've heard enough talking about Gloria Estefan.

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Putrid_Appearance509@reddit

I kept waiting for Bad Bunny to bring her out at the Superbowl. No one was complaining about her singing in Spanish on the 90s, we were, in fact, loving it. Long live the queen!

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mstrdsastr@reddit

I understand what you're saying, but she's from Cuba. And old.

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funhaver_whee@reddit

And she’s got shitty politics

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larryb78@reddit

Had it been in Miami that would’ve been a lock

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Not_So_Bad_Andy@reddit

Random memory: Was living in Miami when Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992 (holy shit the bullying in school afterwards thanks to my name). She did a song called "Always Tomorrow" about it and to raise money. Even today that song gets me.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

I didn’t really understand the Puerto Rican entertainment on the west coast. From SF, and while I’m sure they’re there, it doesn’t bleed into the culture at all. Can’t think of a single PR restaurant, very unlike back east.

Not a problem with it, just think it would have been sooooo much better for a FLA or NY superbowl. I guess I’ve never really paid attention, don’t suppose they ever really give nod to location on halftime entertainment.

Regardless, would’ve been dope if she’d dropped on.

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drtyhppi@reddit

I had a similar thought a few years ago when the SB was in San Francisco. Missed opportunity for Journey to play the halftime show.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

I mean, Steve Perry plays every Giants game 😉😂

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Illystylez619@reddit

Its because we are further south.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

I believe that. I only really know SF/Oakland

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PSBJtotallyboss@reddit

There is an amazing Puerto Rican restaurant in San Rafael called Sol Food. HIGHLY recommend.

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DeadSeaGulls@reddit

very few locals are at any given superbowl. It's a show intended for a national, and greater, audience.

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CherryCherry5@reddit

I can genuinely name only one song by her, so, 🤷‍♀️

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Bradtothebone79@reddit

Get on your feet

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guidevocal82@reddit

I have always loved her music.

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PlantedinCA@reddit

Her and Sheila E did a song recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkOu6mE07-8

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TeddyGrahamNap@reddit (OP)

I'm so utterly charmed by Sheila E, she always seems like a good time.

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PlantedinCA@reddit

One of the times I saw Prince in concert she was a surprise guest. ❤️

I saw her in concert once and in the middle of the show her brother came on the stage and they had a drum competition. It was so cute to see the lighthearted sibling spat. 😂

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Chemical_Butterfly40@reddit

was that at the Forum? I went to 3 of those shows including the one with Sheila E

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PlantedinCA@reddit

In San Jose! Sounds like all the west coasts stops got a nice guest. :)

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youmeanlike24@reddit

She did a Tiny Desk concert last year, so good!

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ThinkFree@reddit

Miami Sound Machine!

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DragonSmaug13@reddit

I used to love her song “The words get in the way” The music and the lyrics are beautiful. I appreciate the lyrics now as I understand them. But I liked the tune as a kid

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DragonSmaug13@reddit

From Gloria Estefan, I encourage u all to give it a listen

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Not_So_Bad_Andy@reddit

In 1992 I was living in the southern part of (now called) Miami-Dade County, Florida. Was in the worst part of Hurricane Andrew. Lots of fun stuff. Roof was missing, screened in patio was somehow thrown into the front yard. My room got it the worst. And I still knew we had it better than a lot of people.

She wrote and performed a song called "Always Tomorrow" to raise money. I will always love her, and I'll always love that song.

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cranberries87@reddit

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I agree with the poster who said Sade. A voice like absolute velvet!

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WillBsGirl@reddit

I Live For Loving You was always my jam.

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SadPhase2589@reddit

My dentist office played her on a constant loop when I was a kid. Now I can’t hear her without thinking about my teeth being drilled on.

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beccadahhhling@reddit

Well, I mean, she DID just win a Grammy this last February. She never really went away. She’s released 2 albums in the last 4 years and was a part of the 80 for Brady soundtrack and music video.

I know she’s re-recording her music right now ala Taylor Swift and will probably have something new in the next few years.

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--Quartz--@reddit

I thought of like computer/software icons, and for some reason I was interested and clicked.
Now I'm dissapointed in a weird way, and left wondering what was I expecting to see in the first place.

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larryb78@reddit

Get up and make it happen

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TeddyGrahamNap@reddit (OP)

This post was brought to you by the clip from Parks and Rec trying to walk on ice to that song.

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actualelainebenes@reddit

I’m holding the dog…he’s peeing…he is now peeing

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CrouchingDomo@reddit

GET ON YOUR FEET! 🎶

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bell83@reddit

That scene KILLED me the first time I watched it.

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expblast105@reddit

My second crush. After Kim Catrall in mannequin.

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

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We need to talk more about this Queen as well.

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M3talhead@reddit

COMONSHAKEYOURBODYBABYDOTHECONGA

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lellywest@reddit

Her self-parodies on Graham Norton are hysterical: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAgd_D_RFQ

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Paquistino@reddit

I was watching the Gabby's Dollhouse movie with my daughter and was surprised to see her playing the grandma!

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Cinderhazed15@reddit

I was pleasantly surprised! It was great!

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BohemianHibiscus@reddit

She looked great though!

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Tobin678@reddit

Amy Grant is who I thought it was at first.

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elruab@reddit

Hopefully the system AI and Carl’s alarm traps will bump her attention back up…

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PoisonMind@reddit

I did a marching band show themed around her music back in high school.

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fuzynutznut@reddit

1-2-3-4

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keep_it_kayfabe@reddit

I developed a huge crush on her from this video!

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neonbrownkoopashell@reddit

Come on baby say you love me

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actualelainebenes@reddit

5-6-7 times

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idobi@reddit

Gloria be to god

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actualelainebenes@reddit

Rhythm Is Gonna Get You is a banger

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

lowkey banger yall frfr ngl no cap

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actualelainebenes@reddit

I’m pretty sure “banger” has been around longer than most of that other nonsense but OK

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tmclaugh@reddit

Emergency, paging Dr. Beat.

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Ok_Habit6837@reddit

Oh we still talk about her in Florida! She is the queen.

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Environmental_Ant268@reddit

Mine was Sandra

Heaven can waaaaaait oh yeahhh

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JuniorPatrick@reddit

Any time I count to four, I immediately follow it up with 'come on baby, say you love me'.

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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

She has her own Broadway jukebox musical.

My dad was absolutely obsessed with her and somehow dated her doppelganger.

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Separate-Sky-1451@reddit

How is she approaching 70???
This getting old thing is stupid.

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IkariYun@reddit

GMILFs man. Our grandparents didn't have as many as we do. Wait until you hear about the GGMILFs

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Oh jesus ...

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ArcadeKingpin@reddit

That’s like most random attractive 50 year olds in any rural small town.

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Separate-Sky-1451@reddit

this made me chuckle.

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Spartan04@reddit

I love her cover of Turn the Beat Around: https://youtu.be/p0vK4tjJZvI

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Aronacus@reddit

Saw a movie a few weeks back where Gloria Estefan was playing the grandmother. It hit me like a ton of bricks.

I'm an old man.

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islipped83@reddit

Gabby's Dollhouse? I was DELIGHTED to see her in it, and she plays a great character!

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Aronacus@reddit

Yep, watching it with my children. My wife, and I were like "Is that Gloria Estefan?!?" Then, it hit us.

We old A.F. Then it dawned on me I have video games older than most redditors.

"See this gold cartridge, It's older than you!"

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iggly_wiggly@reddit

It recently hit me that I have goldfish older than my buddy’s now teenage daughter and it blew me away for a moment.

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Consistent_Fun_9593@reddit

Be nice: Don't tell the goldfish.

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BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit

My 4 year old daughter asked to watch that movie 2 days ago and I noticed Gloria was in it!

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ColoOddball@reddit

Made me so happy when her voice showed up in Vivo

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Lolanr1@reddit

God, I was so obsessed with her as a kid I always made my mother braid my hair at night so I would have curls like Gloria in the morning. 'Twas unsuccessful.

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HobKnobblin@reddit

My mom had one of her albums when I was growing up. 30+ years later and I can still sing along when a rare Gloria Estefan song appears in the wild

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Fantastic_Honey_7425@reddit

So, I had two young kids and one of them wanted to go see Gabby’s Dollhouse for his birthday last year. The move was terrible enough already, but then Gloria Estefan shows up and doesn’t even fucking sing.

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eaglewatch1945@reddit

She almost died in my neck of the woods.

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Rodeoqueenyyc@reddit

My best friend’s 7 & 4 year old daughters are obsessed with “Conga.” I love Shakira and learned that Gloria was the lyricist for “Whenever, Wherever” the first big English language hit. Very cool that she helped other artists break into USA

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Dude_man79@reddit

Both Gloria and Paula Abdul were my jam back in the day. So many good hits and videos from that time period.

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Puzzleheaded-Sky3141@reddit

I try to say i love her, but...the words get in the way

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GoonieMcflyguy@reddit

She was like 80s bad bunny, but with more English. She had bangers and such an inspiring journey. I also find her way more attractive in my adulthood than I did as a kid.

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jackie879@reddit

Paging Dr. Beat, Emergency!

Love Gloria and the Miami Sound Machine. I saw her in concert in 1996. It remains one of my top 5 concerts ever. She’s amazing.

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Asleep_Sherbet_3013@reddit

I was born and raised in Miami, FL, left for years, and then came back. Everyone still talks about here. It has never stopped. She is part of the culture.

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KonfusedKoala19@reddit

Had the pleasure of eating at her restaurant a few years ago. Amazing atmosphere with decent food. The live entertainment made it more special. I can still hear that girl singing today.

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit

Maybe nostalgia for neighties (the time frame of 88-92; late 80s-early 90s) music isn't a big deal?

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ArcadeKingpin@reddit

Just making up all words of shit in this subs. Clearly the middle child of generations with all the quirky look at me shit on this sub. Y’all ridiculous

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actualelainebenes@reddit

It needs to be, there were so many great songs in that period

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Attic-Music@reddit

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trippyhop@reddit

“Come on, Gloria.”

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Kabusanlu@reddit

She’s still doing her thing but in ESPAÑOL

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MullyCat@reddit

Watch the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie Vivo sometime. It's great! My kids had the soundtrack on repeat for a month. Gloria has a big role in it.

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PilotC150@reddit

That movie has a wonderful soundtrack. Not surprising considering the composer.

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YakApprehensive7620@reddit

I really loved her mi Tierra album back in the day… got to see her do it in 2010s in Miami and between how she’s still 🔥 and her awesome personality, she’s a true gem

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Notredamus1@reddit

My mom always listening to the Miami Sound Machine is one of my earliest memories. Great times.

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Ok_Island_1306@reddit

I betcha say that… i betcha say that, to all the girls! 🎶

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Crambo1000@reddit

Me

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shulemaker@reddit

Miami Sound Machine HOLDS UP. And it was her band — she was the leader.

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AngryCobraChicken@reddit

She’s is making music to this day, still very big in the tropical music community with something like 120-125 million albums sold through out her career. Her and her husband also own part of the Dolphins and a ton of restaurants in Florida area. So she’s doing good.

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