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Gloria Estefan · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I won him with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Sober Mario Lopez joining me right now, the queen of
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  Speaker 2: Latin pop, multi Grammy winning artists. My friend Gloria Stefan.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Gloria?
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  Speaker 1: I am good, not as good as you, clearly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're so sweet.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I love you and your husband Emilio, who I recently
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  Speaker 2: got to work with for hosting this Universe. Not too
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  Speaker 2: long ago we were That was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun. But back to you.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a new album coming out later this month
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  Speaker 2: called Risis, your first all Spanish album in eighteen years.
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  Speaker 2: What made you want to go back to your roots?
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  Speaker 1: Elio?
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  Speaker 3: It's funny because a couple of years ago he comes
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  Speaker 3: to me with this song that he says, and he said, Babe, I.
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  Speaker 1: Wrote this song. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm supposed to be writing because he works
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  Speaker 3: with a gazillion artist.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time. They never stop the man because
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  Speaker 1: but this song is for you. I really want you
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  Speaker 1: to do it, and I was involved. It's been three years.
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  Speaker 3: I've been working on this musical with Emily, the music
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  Speaker 3: and the lyrics and everything for an original Broadway musical.
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  Speaker 3: Al Basuda actually we have our name, the Recycled Orchestra
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  Speaker 3: of Paraguay. These kids that live right they live off
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  Speaker 3: the grid next to a landfill and they created an
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  Speaker 3: orchestra out of They make the instruments out of the
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  Speaker 3: trash that their parents survive on. And it's the inception story.
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  Speaker 3: So I was really deep into this. Who are working
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  Speaker 3: together with the book writer? And I tell me o, babe,
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  Speaker 3: you know I can't divert and he.
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  Speaker 1: Goes, well, you trust me. I go, absolutely, I trust
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  Speaker 1: you those would you let me write more material for you?
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  Speaker 1: I go, you know, I love what you do. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And he started making demos and bringing these songs.
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  Speaker 1: And I kept falling in love with each one.
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  Speaker 3: He bra and I said, you know what, I absolutely
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  Speaker 3: am the minute you finished writing it, I'm in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: And then I had.
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  Speaker 3: Been listening all along, so they felt like they were
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  Speaker 3: under my skin.
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  Speaker 1: These songs. I already knew them well when I went
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  Speaker 1: to sing them, and it was a joy. And he
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  Speaker 1: just killed it.
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  Speaker 3: He wrote a lot on his own like that, he says,
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  Speaker 3: And then with other writers like jam.
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  Speaker 1: Marco who we love from Peru and the.
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  Speaker 3: Guy that is from Panama that I love and that's awesome,
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  Speaker 3: fantastic songs. I did write one song though, for my grandson.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that yeah, I wrote it nothing to this album.
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  Speaker 3: I had written it in English. We were together in
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  Speaker 3: euro Beach and he left and I missed them so much.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote this song, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then when I went to do the album, and I've
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  Speaker 3: got to write it in Spanish as well, so that
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  Speaker 3: was on there in both languages.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so special, that's very cool. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: minute since you've toured. Any chances people will get to
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  Speaker 2: see on the road in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to be in Danetitcha actually Spain on
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  Speaker 3: July twenty first, twentieth. There's a big festival going on there,
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  Speaker 3: and I know there's plans for going back to pain
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  Speaker 3: later on. You know, we've been thinking about it. We've
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  Speaker 3: been working on it since I'm working on this, on
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  Speaker 3: this musical. It's also tricky for me now to commit
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  Speaker 3: to something.
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  Speaker 1: But if there's a chance to do like short spurts
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  Speaker 1: of things.
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  Speaker 3: I would absolutely love to get back to the fans
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  Speaker 3: and just make that connection again. I don't think I
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  Speaker 3: would do like a whole world tour because I tell
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  Speaker 3: me I didn't work. It's hard to work.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard, right, I mean, I know exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It's beautiful to be with the fans, but it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work, and i'd.
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  Speaker 1: Be away from home.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to miss my grandson's life.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll work at it here and there.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely well, you're also voice saying speaking of Grandma and
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  Speaker 2: Grandma Gigi in the new Gabby's Dollhouse movie coming out
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  Speaker 2: later this year. To work with Kristin so easy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I am a grandma, even though you know
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  Speaker 3: my grandson says too too.
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  Speaker 1: Some people don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: They think, like you're out and traveling, and they asked me,
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  Speaker 3: does she recognize you?
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  Speaker 1: Like we're super tight.
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  Speaker 3: So when I got the opportunity and I saw the
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  Speaker 3: you know, the script.
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  Speaker 1: I go, oh my gosh, like I'm all over this first.
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  Speaker 1: It's magical. I'm a magical.
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  Speaker 3: Grandma that does this thing for for Gabby. And I
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  Speaker 3: saw Kristin Wig was going to be in it with
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  Speaker 3: huge fan it was just very special.
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  Speaker 1: I get to be both, you know, a live action
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  Speaker 1: character and animated little animated.
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  Speaker 3: Character is so cute and yeah, and Gabby's daughter was
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  Speaker 3: of a huge following I mean, I think over nine seasons,
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  Speaker 3: so it was a very special thing to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do as big theatrical release for Dreamwork.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm super excited. Ryan Craigle, the director, called me,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's half Cuban and just one of
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  Speaker 1: the nicest people I've met. It was I like, for
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  Speaker 1: there'd be good vibes whenever I do a project so important.
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  Speaker 1: I had a ball doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Though.
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  Speaker 2: My kids are right in that wheelhouse, so looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to checking that out. And I can't believe this, but
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  Speaker 2: this year, fortieth anniversary of legendary song Conga blowing up worldwide.
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  Speaker 2: I wow, and I just and I remember vividly when
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  Speaker 2: that came out and seeing the video and stuff going,
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  Speaker 2: and then the songs actually being honored at the Grammy
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame gala in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yes it is. I shall be there to celebrate Gonga.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Like forty years of Conga and fifty years of career.
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  Speaker 3: I milo didn't realize it when when I did this album,
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  Speaker 3: I said, big, you know, it's it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: my fiftieth year that I joined the band in seventy five,
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  Speaker 3: like no, it can't be.
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  Speaker 1: I go, yes it is. I have Conga honored in
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  Speaker 1: this way.
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  Speaker 3: And the Grammy Hall of Fame is really special, especially
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  Speaker 3: since it still gets played everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We're in all kinds of TV shows, a movie. It's
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  Speaker 1: still doing it. So it's very exciting for me.
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  Speaker 2: It's like art. Its just it's timeless. It's awesome. I
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  Speaker 2: love that and I love you guys, so I hope
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  Speaker 2: I get to see you in person soon and listen everyone,
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  Speaker 2: please be sure to check out Gloria's new album, Braces,
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  Speaker 2: which drops May twenty ninth everywhere. Gloria, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in media. Say hello, oh good Please
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  Speaker 2: tell them I said hello, I will tell me you love.
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  Speaker 1: Love and congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciating you're just killing it all the time. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. That's a time. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate Okay, love you.
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  Speaker 1: Baby, Love you. With Mario Lopez