GLORIA ESTEFAN Concerts.
On April 7, 2005, Estefan participated in “Selena ¡VIVE!”, the tribute concert for Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the “Queen of Tejano”, who was murdered in March 1995 on the brink of her attempt to cross over as an English-language performer. Gloria performed “I Could Fall in Love”, one of Selena’s posthumously released crossover hits. Also that year, Estefan appeared on the soundtrack for the television series Desperate Housewives, singing a song titled “Young Hearts Run Free”.
In late 2005, the club mash-up “Dr. Pressure” was released, which combined Mylo’s Number 19 hit “Drop The Pressure” with the ‘s “Dr. Beat”. It reached #3 on the UK singles chart and #1 on the Australian dance chart, providing Estefan with her first top 40 hit and commercial radio airplay since 1996.
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2006: Compilations and the UK promo tour
Gloria Estefan performs at an event to celebrate the United Through Reading program aboard the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), September 14, 2006.
In early 2006, Estefan performed in Los Angeles at a tribute to singer Dionne Warwick. Estefan sang “Walk On By”, one of Warwick’s signature songs.
In October 2006, Sony released a 2-CD compilation The Essential Gloria Estefan, featuring her hits from 1984 to 2003, an made several radio and television appearances to promote The Essential Gloria Estefan including a December 9, 2006 appearance on ITV’s The X Factor.
Estefan also released two additional similar compilation albums that year for other markets. The Very Best of Gloria Estefan was released in Europe and Mexico, and was similar to The Essential Gloria Estefan, but also included as a bonus track “Dr. Pressure”. This compilation was certified GOLD in Ireland. Oye Mi Canto!: Los Grandes Exitos, a collection of her Spanish-language hits was released in Spain. It included a bonus , which included various music videos and television performances.
2008–2009 highlights
In 2008, Gloria appeared during the seventh season of American Idol, in the special charity episode “Idol Gives Back”, performing her song “Get on Your Feet” along with Sheila E.. The performance was recorded and was released at the American iTunes store; the video of the performance reached the number twenty of the store’s Top 100 videos, and the song became the most downloaded. Estefan became the headliner of the new venue of the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort Casino. Her three-day shows were sold out. She then headed to Canada to perform at the Casino Rama. In August, she started her “90 Millas World Tour”. Gloria played concerts in London, Rotterdam, Belfast and Aruba. Gloria performed several concerts in Spain, specifically Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza and Tenerife. Two of these concerts, in Las Ventas, Spain, and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, were free to the public.
Back in the states, Gloria performed a special concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to raise funds for the Education of South Florida. Gloria was a headliner for Bette Midler’s “Annual Hulaween Gala” along with other special guests such as Kathy Griffin and a costume contest judged by Michael Kors. The event benefited the New York Restoration Project.
During the Thanksgiving season, Gloria Estefan appeared on Rosie O’ Donnell’s television special Rosie Live! singing a duet with O’Donnell titled “Gonna Eat For Thanksgiving”, an alternate version of “Gonna Eat For Christmas” from on O’Donnell’s album A Rosie Christmas.
In 2009, Estefan announced plans for her “farewell tour” of Latin America and South America. Estefan has explained that this tour is intended to be her last, so that she can spend more time with her daughter Emily. Estefan also completed a 3 night concert series with Carole King entitled “She’s Got a Friend” at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.
The tour continued with a concert at Guadalajara in Mexico, as part of a program designed to improve tourism in Mexico, and a series of appearances at music festivals throughout Europe, including headlining at the Summer Pops Music Festival in Liverpool on the July 27, 2009.
This same year, Gloria opened the “In Performance at the White House: Fiesta Latina 2009” with “No Llores”. Also, at the end, Estefan together with Jennifer Lopez, Thalía, Marc Anthony, José Feliciano, made a rendition to her Latin-classic, “Mi Tierra”.
In 2010
Gloria started out the new decade with a charity single: in March 2010, it was announced that she and her husband, producer Emilio Estefan Jr., would gather Latin artists to remake Michael Jackson’s song “We Are The World”, but sung in Spanish. The song, written by Estefan and approved by Quincy Jones, has been recorded and called “Somos El Mundo”. It premiered during El Show de Cristina on March 1, 2010 and all the funds went to Haitian relief.
On March 24, 2010, Gloria led a march through the Calle Ocho in Miami to support Cuba’s Las Damas De Blanco (Ladies in White).Estefan did this to make people remember the movement’s Havana march of 2003, where women protested on behalf of 75 victims of Castro’s government.
Closer to the year’s end, Gloria made part of a project for a benefit for the Urban Arts Partnership in New York on its 10th edition, 24 Hours Of Play In Broadway, she made a special role in a play named I Think You’ll Love This One, which was written by a 20-year-old winner of the Montblanc writers project, Elizabeth Cruz Cortes. Her fellow actors were Elijah Wood, Diane Neal and Alicia Witt. Estefan’s performance was praised by critics and by the director of the play.
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Arnoldo Varona, Editor