Gloria Estefan - The Essential Gloria Estefan (2006) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 359 Mb | Scans included
Label: Epic, Legacy | # 82876 89085 2 | Time: 02:33:20
Pop, Dance-Pop, Latin Pop, R&B, Adult Contemporary
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 359 Mb | Scans included
Label: Epic, Legacy | # 82876 89085 2 | Time: 02:33:20
Pop, Dance-Pop, Latin Pop, R&B, Adult Contemporary
The 2006 release of The Essential Gloria Estefan satisfied a long unmet need for a career-spanning English-language retrospective, one that includes the singer's popular hits with Miami Sound Machine in the mid-'80s as well as her subsequent solo recordings. For years, Estefan fans had few best-of choices to choose from – the Spanish-language Exitos de Gloria Estefan (1990), the two-volume Greatest Hits series (1992, 2001), and the latter-day Amor y Suerte: Exitos Romanticos collection (2004) – with no alternatives, not even budget-line knockoffs. The long-overdue release of The Essential Gloria Estefan thankfully resolved this gripe, for it includes the highlights from all aspects of Estefan's varied output, spread generously across two jam-packed discs.