Gloria Estefan is an undisputed legend and global superstar. As a musician, she is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter with three dozen number one hits, has toured the world six times, and has a biographical Broadway musical based on her life and hits called On Your Feet.
On March 20th 1990, at the height of her fame, Gloria was in a nearly fatal bus accident. She describes the day,"I only had had one day off [on tour] and Emilio had finagled me to going to a dinner in New York for a big Sony honcho that I did not want to do…what I wanted to do was to go to Syracuse and go sleep for a day…he says, 'It's important, we should go.
On her prospects of recovery, Gloria recalls the doctor saying he wasn't promising anything but shared he had seen miracles in his own family:"He told me 'It's up to you.'" "I'll never forget, it was close to four or five months up to the accident that I was able to lift my leg high enough and swing my arms low enough to put on my underwear by myself.
"I would say the worst thing they could do is give in to impulsivity or the momentary feeling … I've lived quite a few difficulties and nothing is as horrible in the long run as it seems in the moment. We think we're not strong enough, you want to throw in the towel, [but] there's always something to be gleaned, something to strengthen us from every difficulty that we experience, there's always something to learn and I think that's what [we're] here for.
"It was so awful, we still can't wrap our heads around that. That was the most devastating and unexpected blow. He was like my brother, he was my family. He's been with us 30 some years... We had a drive-in funeral for Frank and we made a film for him. I know he's working from the other side, I feel him.
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