{"id":2364,"date":"2023-06-09T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2023-06-09T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:05:40","slug":"gloria-estefan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/2023\/06\/09\/gloria-estefan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Estefan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born singer who immigrated from Cuba to Miami when she was only two years old. Her father worked as a bodyguard for Cuban President Fulgencio Batista and her mother was a teacher. After working for Batista, her father worked for the CIA-backed brigade of island exiles (NYT) and then served time imprisoned after the Bay of Pigs mission failed.&nbsp; When Fidel Castro came into power, Gloria and her family immigrated to Miami.&nbsp; Like many immigrants and refugees, you always need a reminder of your country, a symbol of where you came from.&nbsp; This can be food, music, the language, or material items.&nbsp; For Gloria, the sounds of salsa from Cuba and pop which was growing in popularity at the time would contribute to the love she gained for music and the industry-changing singer she became.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As a Hispanic from an area of New Jersey with many others who identify as Latinx, the beats of merengue, salsa, and reggaeton are played very frequently with a mix of pop, hip-hop, and rap and from many Caribbean artists, songs would include a variety of these mixes.&nbsp; Gloria grew a huge liking for beats and music growing up, which eventually would guide her to pursue a career in the music industry.&nbsp; Gloria Estefan would be one of the most significant singers to combine Latin beats with American pop beats, which&nbsp;some might argue, makes her the Queen of Latin Pop.<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/oL2rjlNbgwLuQEGRNVfBnViXOvY\/fit-in\/728xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2015\/11\/25\/675\/n\/37139775\/38a3abbe_edit_img_cover_file_39203040_1448464128_GettyImages-498634982\/i\/Gloria-Emilio-Estefan-Receive-US-Medal-Freedom.jpg\" alt=\"Gloria and Emilio Estefan Receive US Medal of Freedom | POPSUGAR Latina\" width=\"581\" height=\"417\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born singer who immigrated from Cuba to Miami when she was only two years old. Her father worked as a bodyguard for Cuban President Fulgencio Batista and her mother was a teacher. After working for Batista, her father worked for the CIA-backed brigade of island exiles (NYT) and then served time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":2374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories23","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}