The Estefans are a perfect example of Hispanic families in the United States., those who were born abroad and those who are here, but who were formed with the best of our Latin American roots. And those who realized and paved the way for those who arrive with the famous “American dream”.
The same was reflected in album of the date we love to celebrate the most is Christmas and they released “Estefan Family Chirstimas”.. Working with three columns, Gloria, Emily and Sasha Estefan, but featuring everyone from Emilio and Lily to puppies. In a chat full of love mother and daughter tell us the secret of how to make a unique, intimate and family moment eternal.
-Gloria, it took you 29 years and family to release a Christmas album again…
Gloria Estefan: This concept could not be realized in any other way. 29 was not on purpose, but I had the opportunity to develop in music and do whatever I like.and this is at least a year of work, but when I saw that Sasha had already grown up, knowing how beautifully she sings, and seeing that this will change soon, in order to be able to capture this moment in a musical project like this, all 3. This has been the greatest blessing in my life. I enjoyed it like no other project and it’s something that will stay foreverFor me, for their children and grandchildren, it was a blessing.
– Emily, how was the process for you? because mom is a little bossy, but in reality you are like a team leader
Gloria Estefan: I wish he was!
Emily Stefan: don’t look everyone respects my mom because she is a queen Y…
Gloria Estefan: Do you know that as a child you said you were a queen?
Emily Stefan: Well, I still do.
Gloria Estefan: Father came: “How is my little princess?” … And she said, “I am the queen.”
Emily Stefan: it’s in life what really matters is respect and what my mom has for us for doing this process makes it like magic is respect. Sasha had an idea: “Oh, tutu, let’s try, but if we sing like that? Come on, let’s”… Usually, especially in Hispanic families, it’s difficult to record with such dynamics, I think you can hear it on the album, because it really was like this: Sasha and I are downstairs playing harmony, and my mother is working on another song upstairs.… As it used to be with music, a building full of people working on something creative, fun, it really was.
-Gloria, what did you discover in this project of Emily and Sasha? And you, Emily, what did you find out about Gloria and Sasha?
Gloria Estefan: I know Emily very well, but she always surprises me with her interpretation. For example, on this disk her solo “When I Miss You”, the sensitivity she needs to have to emotionally convey those lyrics and that feelingand what a demo he made!
Emily Stefan: It wasn’t my song, it was hers and I I fell in love with the song when I saw the sheet music. The first day we started recording, his dog died.who was like her baby and so important to all of us. She said, “I don’t know if I can sing,” and I told her, “Don’t worry, the band is already here, I’ll do a demo.” song.” You see, respect.
Gloria Estefan: I’ve always been amazed at how talented she is, I know Sasha wow when we were composing a song, suddenly we are with him with a guitar and he says: “Tutu, put on this melodylet’s upload it here and sing “… It was him alone, it was his idea, and then I say oh my God, at that age to have such sensitivity, he wrote to me, he made me an essay when the dog died.
Emily Stefan: This is a hit.
Gloria Estefan: He came the next day with a song, and separated me with a broken heart and cry like crazy, but that he has such emotional maturity. The ideas he came up with were so good that I was surprised too. He prepared very well, he came to the studio ready, he knew the song, together with him in the studio we taught what I learned as a singer.like someone who records, why record a song. It’s one thing to perform something live when you have an audience and emotions, but when you create something that will last forever, you want it to be the best it can be.
I told him: “You paint like it’s an emotional picture of the song, you have to think about the things that make you feel so that you can convey them…. And he seemed to be absorbed in the next and left.
Emily Stefan: It has life. What surprised me about my mother is that no matter how much time passes, she always surprises me. This woman does not get tired, what I really saw with my own eyes is the project. Now I’m 28, I’m young and I fell asleep and I: “I can’t take it anymore, 2:30” … and she: “Okay, bye, good night” … At 5 in the morning she: “Oh, I came home, look, here it is”… My God, when it comes to music, she does not get tired, she is the drummer of creativity.
Gloria Estefan: It’s what gives me life when we do something, I told her I wrote most of my songs between 12:00 at night and 6:00 in the morning.because I had a family, Emilio was there, during the day I had a thousand things to do and I think that in this hemisphere at this time the spiritual channels are clear, muses, more freedom to achieve oneand me, my creativity is awakening at this time, and I think this is a very open moment to compose and do everything.
Emily Stefan: Vibrations as free.
Gloria Estefan: D Every time I write a song, I write it, that’s what I tell you, I feel like I can never do it againit’s like giving birth, it’s like when you’re 9 months pregnant but when you have this baby you have the baby and you’re like wow I don’t know if I can do it again and that’s how it goes and I I continue with the same enthusiasm for music.
-When the years pass and your children and grandchildren appear, what do you want to remember from this moment?
Gloria Estefan: all but obvious the most important thing for me is to live every moment, because if you don’t live it, you won’t remember itand you have to be present, because often you are worried about what will happen: “Oh God, I have to do this next week, what will happen” … But God knows if it happens next week then be any time you.
Right now what we’re sharing, to me, it’s not “Oh my God, we should be doing all this press” this is an opportunity for me to talk about what was so important to us, And that’s why I’ve had a lot of press friendships over the years, because there’s an exchange going on. Just live every moment, and I already remember them there they will be, they will remain, the best, the most difficult, but you must be present.
Emily Stefan: For me, yes you want to hear the joy, happiness that I should be at this moment right now, this is an album, this is the joy of musicwe don’t know if tomorrow the piano will hit me and I am dying, my voice will still be with you for you to hear it, for you to contact us, so that we include you in our family.So for me it’s the greatest gift to be able to have it, that my body can leave this earth, but you have my music.
Gloria Estefan: The good thing about music is that it remains forever and for future generations.
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Source: La Opinion
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