- Title: Gloria Estefan launches "On Your Feet!" show in London
- Date: 27th June 2019
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JUNE 27, 2019) (REUTERS) CAST PERFORMING FINAL SONG PERFORMANCE OF "ON YOUR FEET!" SHOW BASED ON SINGER GLORIA ESTEFAN AND HER HUSBAND EMILIO (GEORGE IONNIDES AS EMILIO AND CHRISTIE PRADES AS GLORIA)
- Embargoed: 11th July 2019 23:51
- Keywords: Gloria Estefan On Your Feet music theatre mucial Latin Miami Sound Machine
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Music
- Reuters ID: LVA001AL4A537
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Singer Gloria Estefan opened up about her 1990 road accident and her deep love for her music producer husband Emilo as a musical depicting their lives had its press launch in London on Thursday (June 27).
"On Your Feet!" features some of her most famous hits such as "Rhythm is Gonna Get You", and "Don't Want to Lose You Now" and will track the couple's childhoods in Cuba, their meeting in Miami and path to worldwide fame.
The pair have now been married 40 years.
"We have been together 43 years actually, married 40, you know neither one of us wanted to go there, scared that if something went wrong with the marriage and professionally it would be tough, but it was a very natural process and we love each other dearly, there's a lot of respect there and we rarely differ on anything that has to do with music or business so we don't argue a lot, we never have and that helps a lot," she told Reuters.
The musical covers both the highs and lows of the star's rise to global fame, including a severe road accident involving her tour bus in 1990.
"It was very difficult. The prognosis was not good, they told me literally that I was paralysed....I felt people's prayers around me every moment," she said.
Gloria Estefan has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and is the most successful Latin crossover performer in the history of pop music.
She and her husband have won 26 Grammy awards between them.
The show will run at the London Coliseum from June 14 to Aug. 31.
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