Gloria Estefan RIAA Gold Music Award
Gloria Estefan RIAA Gold Music Award for sales of over 500,00 units of her single "Turn The Beat Around". This was awarded to Chuck Knight of Wyar management, for sales of over 500,000 units of Crescent Moon/Epic soundtrax " Turn The Beat Around".
This single was released in 1994, the song was recorded for the soundtrack to the film The Specialist. It became a hit reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also featured on her fourth solo album "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me". She sang the song as her opening performance in VH1's first ever Divas Live. The song went to the top spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, making it her first number-one song on that chart in English.
A rare and collectable Gloria Estefan music memorabilia item.
Gloria Estefan Bibliography.
Gloria Estefan was born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo on September 1, 1957 and is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. A contralto, she started her career as the lead singer in the group "Miami Latin Boys", which later became known as Miami Sound Machine.
She achieved worldwide success with "Conga" in 1985. The song became Estefan's signature song and led to the Miami Sound Machine winning the grand prix in the 15th annual Tokyo Music Festival in 1986. In the middle of 1988, she and the band got their first number-one hit for the song "Anything for You." In March 1990, Estefan had a severe accident in her tour bus. She made her comeback in March 1991 with a new world tour and album called Into The Light.
Her 1993 Spanish-language album, Mi Tierra, won the first of her three Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Latin Album. It was the first number-one album on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, established when it was released. It was also the first Diamond album in Spain. Many of her songs, such as "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," "1-2-3," "Get On Your Feet," "Here We Are," "Coming Out of the Dark," "Bad Boy," "Oye!," "Party Time" and a remake of "Turn the Beat Around" became international chart-topping hits.
She has sold an estimated 115 million records worldwide including 31.5 million in the United States alone. Gloria has won three Grammy Awards and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Las Vegas Walk of Fame.
In 2015, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contributions to American music and received the Kennedy Center Honors in December 2017 for her contributions to American Culture Life.
She has also won an MTV Video Music Award, she was honored with the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as being named BMI Songwriter of the Year. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has received multiple Billboard Awards. She is also on the list of VH1 top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in Billboard's Top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
A fantastic piece of signed Gloria Estefan memorabilia. A must for any fan of Gloria Estefan, a genuine Riaa gold disc awarded for the single 2 Turn The Beat Around"
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Dimensions; 43cm H x 32cm W x 3cm D