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Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine: Wembley Arena, London

David Quantick, New Musical Express, 14 October 1989

GLORIA ESTEFAN is a goddess. While popular music searches for something to pep up its ailing corpse and, typically, picks on rock music — I mean, long hair and guitars! We've done that! — Gloria Estefan and her space hubby Emilio blend a giant mixture of Latin music, show ballads and pumping funky dance music and storm the barricades. And now they are here! In this actual room!

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