A conversation with Gloria Estefan

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Gloria Estefan is one of those musicians whose work and mere presence in the record industry deserves without question platitudes like ‘pioneering’ or ‘ground breaking.’ In fact, we have often mentioned her in that light throughout the 15 years of Alt.Latino. So it was a thrill to invite her to chat with us once again, this time immediately after a stunning Tiny Desk performance that will publish Oct. 13. She gives serious Favorite Tiá vibes, and since she and Felix are close in age, it felt like a conversation with a good friend with a fascinating life story - who just happens to have one of the richest song catalogs in Latin music history.

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0:19.4	From NPR Music, this is all Latino.
0:21.4	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:22.5	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:24.0	Let the Chisembe begin.
0:30.3	Anna, this week, the Chisemay is that you are on the president of Chile's Instagram.
0:36.5	What's up with that? I mean, there's a good reason. It has to do with what we do here, Felix. Tap, top, top, top, top, top, top, top. What do you pass, Policarpo? What's the past every that they invite to Tiny Disc, Tullio? Oh! Oh! Oh! Hey, Today is a day very special, you, oh. I, we for El Taini, Latin'Latine
1:02.0	Latin Music Month this year brought this Chilean children's show called 30 Minutes.
1:07.4	I think you either really know it or you super don't.
1:10.2	It's a children's TV show that's
1:11.5	been really impactful in Chile, across Latin America. I think I knew the show would blow up.
1:17.3	I didn't know I'd make it on the president's Instagram. Saying it blew up is kind of an
1:21.5	understanding.
1:32.4	I've been looking at a lot of the metrics since it came out yesterday. We're talking right now on a Tuesday.
1:34.1	This came out yesterday, Monday, October 6th.
1:36.6	And it isn't the fastest growing Tined Desk of all time.
1:40.6	Billy Elish and Sabrina Carpenter hit 2.5 million in a day. This hit 2 million.
1:45.7	But I will say it is probably arguably one of the most beloved universally. It's something
1:53.1	that is being talked about in pretty much every major news outlet across Latin America. I'm getting
1:58.3	emails and texts from reporters across the two continents,
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