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| Artist: Gloria Estefan
Label: Sony International
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 17689
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.3
MPN: 709055
UPC: 886970905527
EAN: 0886970905527
ASIN: B000TM084C
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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Condition: new, sealed
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| Tracks:
| • | Me Odio | | • | No Llores | | • | Lo Nuestro | | • | Pintame | | • | Caridad | | • | Yo No Cambiaria | | • | Bésame | | • | Refranes | | • | A Bailar | | • | Esta Fiesta No Va Acabar | | • | Volveré | | • | Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) | | • | Morenita | | • | 90 Millas |
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Amazon.com
After a long career as a crossover queen, Gloria Estefan, along with her co-composer-producer husband, Emilio, has been captured in a nostalgic mood. The album's title, 90 Millas (90 Miles), refers to the distance between the couple's ancestral Cuba and their present home in the city of Miami where, first as lead vocalist with the Miami Sound Machine and later as a solo artist, Ms. Estefan became an important figurehead for a large ex-pat community. On this set, she is heard exclusively in Spanish, fronting a superstar line-up of singers and instrumentalists (a partial list would include Paquito d'Rivera, Johnny Pacheco, Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Carlos Santana, José Feliciano, Arturo Sandoval, Sheila E., and movie star and Latin music aficionado Andy Garcia). Her previous three albums performed exclusively in that language, Mi Tierra (1993), Abriendo Puertas (1995), and Alma Caribena (2000), were each a bit more far-flung stylistically but this opus is Havana all the way. Highlights include the string-backed charanga romance of "Bésame," the high-spirited, "Guantanamera"-like call-and-response of "Refranes," the percussive, brassy frenzy of "Esta Fiesta No Va Acabar," the African influenced "Morenita," and "Volveré," which bears more than a slight melodic resemblance to Cat Stevens' "Wild World." The material is uniformly newly composed, and highly authentic and lilting it is, too. But it would also be wonderful to hear Ms. Estefan interpret a few classic boleros and sons, especially she has long since proven that she is equipped to do so with flying colors. --Christina Roden
Amazon.com
Gloria pays tribute to her Cuban heritage with a collection of 14 newly recorded Spanish language songs celebrating the roots of Cuban music and Hispanic culture. The album also pays homage to the most influential and universally respected Latin musicians of the past 50 years including Cachao, Chocolate, Paquito D'Rivera, Sheila E, Jose Feliciano, Andy Garcia, Giovanni Hidalgo, Generoso Jiménez, Johnny Pacheco, Arturo Sandoval, Carlos Santana and more.. With original lyrics and music, this is the album Gloria was born to make. Gloria Estefan Photo More from Gloria Estefan 
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Album Description
Gloria plays tribute to her Cuban heritage with a collection of newly recorded Spanish language songs celebrating Cuban and Hispanic music and culture. The album also pays homage to the most influential and universally respected Latin musicians of the past 50 years. With original lyrics and music, this is the album Gloria was born to make.
Album Details
2007 Spanish Language Album by the Queen of Latin Popular Music. Includes Two Bonus Tracks: 'al Verte Partir' and 'vueltas De La Vida'.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 WOW! May 20, 2008
this pulled me like a magnet!
amazing voice, amazing beats, one of her amazing albums, i am in love with her voice HER PASSION in music!
viva CUBA!
 good "latino music" April 5, 2008
I bought this for myself, but ended up giving it to my Venezuelan-born girlfriend. It's all in spanish and I don't speak. My fault. Music is good, but the language turned me off.
Angela (my girl) likes it!
 90 miles...so close, yet so far away... March 14, 2008
90 millas, the newest Spanish-language offering from Gloria Estefan, refers to the distance between her ancestral homeland of Cuba and Miami, and is also an apt metaphor for her earlier Spanish-language work Mi Tierra, which was a straightforward retro tribute to Cuban son ballads of decades past. 90 millas, on the other hand, updates traditional Cuban mainstays such as spirited piano solos, call-and-response vocals, and Afro-Cuban rhythms with Santana riffs and guest appearances by Jose Feliciano, Israel Lopez, Johnny Pacheco and Paquito d'Rivera.
On the opening Me Odio, the sound flirts with brassy mariachi trumpets tempered by a languorous tempo. There are boleros and sons, and the folkish Pintame de Colores is drenched in a happy-go-lucky charango backing. Caridad features a punchy, bold salsa-inspired trumpet backing, with Cuban piano tripping merrily along. Refranes also has the ring of an old favorite, as does the cheery Esta fiesta no va a acabar. Morenita is a fiercely proud Afro-Cuban ballad with hints of tribal drums underscored by electric guitars.
The politically-charged Esperando (cuando Cuba sea libre) ("Waiting...for Cuba to be free") proves that Cuban-Americans are eyeing unfolding developments in post-Castro Cuba just as anxiously as Cubans themselves, waiting for the day when they may once more be reunited with loved ones on both sides of the aforementioned 90 miles. 90 millas offers something to appeal both to the older Cuban generation who grew up on son as well as the younger generation raised on hip-hop and Latin rock, and is a pleasing blend of the best of both.
90 MILLAS March 8, 2008
Gloria once again shines above others. Once again spreading the latino music culture to the rest of the world. God bless you Gloria we love you in Scotland come back soon.
John Bhoy
Excellent album by Gloria. March 5, 2008
Thank you Gloira. I have been a fan of you since the beginning. I love your voice and music.
Many people have said that if it wasn't for Emilio you wouldn't be famous but that's just envy. You are very talented on your own rights and a very original singer and I love your live shows as well as all your albums. On 90 millas you sound as cuban as Celia Cruz, you sing with passion and sound very credible.
I hope you release an english album soon. I loved the unwrapped album as well and still listen to all your albums from the 80's.
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