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| 90 Millas | 
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| Artist: Gloria Estefan
Label: Sony International
Category: Music
List Price: $16.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (34 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4126
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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| Tracks:
| • | Me Odio | | • | No Llores | | • | Lo Nuestro | | • | PAntame | | • | Caridad | | • | Yo No CambiarAa | | • | BAsame | | • | Refranes | | • | A Bailar | | • | Esta Fiesta No Va Acabar | | • | VolverA | | • | Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) | | • | Morenita | | • | 90 Millas |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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 Jimenez, 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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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, Jose 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 "Besame," 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 "Volvere," 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
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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!
I get accused of only reviewing.......... March 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
....albums by gorgeous blondes. That isn't true, but here it would only be half-true; Gloria isn't blonde. This is an absolutely great album by a singer who proved her worth long ago; I don't know that she's ever sung a bad note.....
This album of what, to me, were unknown songs will appeal to two fan bases; [1] fans of Gloria [2] fans of Cuban music, of which we have plenty, as Cuba is only "90 Millas" away. It was a thoroughly enjoyable listening experience. If you can understand Spanish, you'll like it even better.
Gloria Estefan is a fabulous singer who, here, benefits from great back-up, and engineering. If you have any interest in Gloria, or this genre of music, don't miss 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
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