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Gloria Estefan had a rough expeirnce in her life. She became successful by perserving her challenges she had. She achieved what she learned by overcoming her fears. Gloria Estefan exempliefed perservance by overcoming her rough childhood,her struggling life as a singer,and the challenges of peforming.
 * Gloria Estefan**

Gloria Estefan overcame her rough childhood she had in life.While in school she was very shy, overweight, and had very few friends. While in school her dad was very ill while coming back from a long war in Cuba. She had to support her family with her mother because she was the oldest when her father became ill. She felt very alone and felt like she didn't have anybody to talk to. Instead of crying or felling sorry she decided to express how she felt and her pain in music. She locked herself in the closet and just startes to play the guitar. She also taught herself how to play the guitar.

Gloria Estefan overcame the struggling life as a singer. It all stared when a few of her friends wanted to be in a band. They started with playing at local events. When they were playing a local scout (record producer) noticed the girls and wanted to sign them. The recording producer wanted to change the band around and call them a totally new name.Gloria wanted to do a solo not in group and decided to do it by herself. While making her albulm Gloria and the producer got really close while making her albulm. She recorded spanish song's and english song's that had made excellent sale's. Gloria and the producer married and had a son Nayib. On a bus she had a car accident that had made her have a broken back. She couldn't peform for along time that had made her fell bad. Gloria was determined to peform again and have physical therpary for her back and apparently it worked. She was back on her feet in know time.

Gloria Estefan overcame her challenges of peforming on stage because Gloria had very bad stage fright on stage, sometimes she even felt uncormtable. While on stage she didn't know how people would react to her music. If it was good or bad? She didn't know. One thing she did know was that she was very passionate about her dream. She knew who she was and what she was. She only cared about her singing. She was very passionte about who she was.

Some thing that you didn't know is that she has a daughter named Emily even when she thought she couldn't have another baby after her back surgery. Gloria recieved the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of honor in 1993 because she was born outside the USA, this is one of the highest award in the USA. Through her music she has been a successful wife,mother,singer,songwriter,and a humantiarian all because she has believed in herself.

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UPI. (Photographer). (2010). //Gloria estefan performs at the u.s. open tennis championships in new york: Gloria estefan performs at opening night ceremonies at the u.s. open tennis championships in arthur ashe stadium in new york city on august 30, 2010. upi/john angelillo//. [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=imh&AN=imh648827&site=srck5-live