DATE=10-17-03

TYPE=Special English Feature

NUMBER=7-29062

TITLE=SPECIAL ENGLISH AMERICAN MOSAIC #944-Gloria Estefan New Album

BYLINE=Chi Un Lee

TELEPHONE=619-2585

DATELINE=Washington

EDITOR=Arditti

CONTENT=

HOST:

Gloria Estefan has recorded more than twenty albums and sold more than seventy million copies. Jim Tedder tells us about the newest release by the forty-six-year-old singer.

ANNCR:

Gloria Estafan's new album is called "Unwrapped." The first hit song from the album is called "Wrapped."

(((CUT TWO "WRAPPED")))

Gloria Estefan was a child when her family had to flee Cuba after Fidel Castro seized power in nineteen-fifty-nine. They moved to Miami, Florida. She had her first big hits in the middle of the nineteen-eighties with the group Miami Sound Machine. Then, in nineteen-ninety, a truck hit their bus. She broke her back. Her recovery took months.

Gloria Estefan says music has helped her through hard times. Here is another song from her new album. It is called "I Will Always Need Your Love."

(((CUT ONE "I WILL ALWAYS NEED YOUR LOVE")))

Gloria Estefan's popularity has helped other Latin singers find success in the American music industry. Four of the songs on "Unwrapped" are in Spanish. We leave you with "Te Amare," or "I will love you."

((CUT THREE "TE AMARE)))