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Speaker 1: Picture this. It's the eighties. The music is bumping from

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Speaker 1: the beaches of La to South Beach. The kids are

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Speaker 2: I see the mihita wearing bandana's short shorts, no shirt,

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Speaker 2: all those sweaty bansitas.

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Speaker 1: Oh yo, exactly beautiful sun kissed people roller skating with

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Speaker 1: walkman's in their hands, moving their bodies to songs like

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Speaker 1: let It Loose, Give It Up, and.

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Speaker 2: The ragm is gonna get you, The rhythm is gonna

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Speaker 2: get you, the rythm is gonna get you.

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Speaker 3: To night Dun Dun.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we sound just like them.

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Speaker 3: I mean seriously.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Lilianavoscaz.

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Speaker 3: And I'm Joseph Carrio And this is Becoming an Icon.

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Speaker 1: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on

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Speaker 1: how today's most famous latinx have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 3: And given the world some extra level.

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Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable.

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Speaker 2: Because we are going in the only way we know how,

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Speaker 2: with buenos buenas, visas.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of opinions, as we relive their greatest

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Speaker 1: achievements on our journey to find out what makes them

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Speaker 1: so iconic. The Miami Sound Machine returned to the studio

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Speaker 1: in early nineteen eighty seven with Jorge George Gasas on bass,

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Speaker 1: keyboardist Clay Oswald, and guitarist John Defadia. Kika Garcia was

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Speaker 1: the only remaining core member. Now that Gloria Stefan was

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Speaker 1: given top billing.

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Speaker 2: Henny, she hypnotized the fans I mean, the band's name

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Speaker 2: was changed to Gloria Es Stefan and the Miami Sound Machine.

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Speaker 3: To capitalize on that ass.

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Speaker 1: The album Let It Loose went multi platinum, with three

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Speaker 1: Stay Away from You, Anything for You, and one two

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Speaker 1: three were all top charting singles on the Adult Contemporary.

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Speaker 2: Hits Adult Contemporary That's Giving leg Warmers, shoulder Pads, and

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Speaker 1: Don't Forget Success vibes Joseph because it also featured the

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Speaker 1: song anything for You, that did reach number one on

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Speaker 1: the Billboard Hot one hundred. This song was their very

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Speaker 3: Gloria and you know what, My Blue The rhythm did get.

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Speaker 1: To them, well, not all of them. Gloria had always

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Speaker 1: spoken out against the Castro regime, and all that success

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Speaker 1: what she had to say about it, and the Cuban government, well,

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Speaker 1: they weren't very happy about it. She was declared persona

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Speaker 1: non grata out, but that did not stop her or

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Speaker 1: her massive fame. In nineteen eighty nine, the group's name

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Speaker 1: was changed one last time. Glodia Stefan was now on

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Speaker 2: Hey listen, it happened to Selena justin Timberlake, Beyonce.

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Speaker 1: After the worldwide chart success of the single Anything for You,

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Speaker 1: her Let It Loose album was repackaged as Anything for You,

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Speaker 1: with only her name on it. The album included the

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Speaker 1: hit singles Don't Want to Lose You, Oyamikanto, Here we Are,

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Speaker 1: Cuts both Ways, and get on Your Feet. It was

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Speaker 1: her best selling album to date, and with so many

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Speaker 2: In both English and in Spanish. It was like she

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Speaker 2: the album were to die for. They were hydrated and bouncy.

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Speaker 2: It was like the Vo five commercials.

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Speaker 1: I love her with the curly hair. I think she

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Speaker 1: Mariah did that. It was such a big deal, too,

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Speaker 3: It just meant you were different and you can't be different.

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Speaker 1: I guess everybody wanted straight hair, and I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: let these curly divas shine. With the success of the

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania when on March twentieth, nineteen ninety, a near fatal

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Speaker 3: Stop it, it was Emilio there, No, he was not.

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Speaker 1: Emilio was returning from a meeting with President George Bush

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Speaker 2: Okay, so hold on, what was happening to the Miami

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Speaker 2: Sound Machine all this time? Were they like still a

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Speaker 1: Not quite. Emilil tried to create an offshoot Miami Sound

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Speaker 3: I mean, what did he expect.

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Speaker 2: The lead singer is a lead singer period, Like Honey

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Speaker 2: to the Bees, It's like this show.

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Speaker 3: I'm the Gloria, You're the sound machine.

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Speaker 1: But I love you though I know you do, and yes,

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Speaker 1: my love, you are the Gloria. But now back to

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Speaker 1: the real Gloria. It was the early nineties when a

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Speaker 1: Stefan officially returned to the stage and to the charts.

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Speaker 1: Ten months after her accident. She performed Coming Out of

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Speaker 1: the Dark at the American Music Awards to a standing Oh.

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Speaker 2: Coming out of the Dark. Did she be coming out

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Speaker 2: like the speed of light? Honey, that recovery?

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Speaker 1: You said it earlier.

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Speaker 3: She's Wolverine serious.

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Speaker 1: The fans were thrilled to have her back. Coming Out

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Speaker 3: Show like an icon.

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Speaker 1: Baby, It's the early nineties, nineteen ninety two to be precise.

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Speaker 1: Gloria has just released Glodia Stefan's Greatest Hits, and the

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Speaker 1: album includes the US hit ballads Always Tomorrow and I

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Speaker 1: See You Smile, along with the international hit dance track

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Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety two, So big Hair, Bigger Hoops. The Cold

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Speaker 2: a time to be alive.

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Speaker 1: I was little in nineteen ninety two. I mean not

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Speaker 3: No joke, you guys, lid to really, but I was little.

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Speaker 1: I was twelve and I was in middle school, and

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Speaker 1: I definitely remember Gloria being the queen of pop in

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: I'll say this, my parents didn't really like They grew

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Speaker 2: alternative stuff like Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Lisa Lobe. Something

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Speaker 1: Then well, I think for me, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I would have chosen Glodia. It's just that I never

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Speaker 1: My mom was like, what's the adult contemporary channel? One

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Speaker 1: I think it was also a little bit interesting to

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Speaker 1: I don't remember it at least Gloria was probably one

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Speaker 1: of the first times I remember my mom specifically listening

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Speaker 1: to call it pop adult contemporary music in ingles. Normally

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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?

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Speaker 3: She's the one person that gave like English Latin.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true, right, I'm just saying

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Speaker 2: that for me, Like, she's the one person that it

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Speaker 2: It's just like, you know, I can see that your

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Speaker 2: because like they sang music in English that sounded like Spanish.

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Speaker 3: How could you do that? Is what I'm saying, Like.

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Speaker 1: I think what you're getting at is that the soul

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Speaker 1: Thank you, let me transfer.

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Speaker 2: All of my Yeah, those were all of my words

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Speaker 1: What he meant is this, the soul of the song

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Speaker 1: And I think that same thing applied to other first

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Speaker 3: I love it because I wonder if they were, like,

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Speaker 3: bet do I know Inglass?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think a lot of people, if you think

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Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna call it. He was a one hit wonder,

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Speaker 1: John Sicata Sicata, So yes, the year is nineteen ninety two,

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Speaker 1: and Laura, with all of her success, her global thing,

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Speaker 1: all of the number one hits, saying back up for

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Speaker 3: Just another day.

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Speaker 2: I feel so bad that he last or wherever he is, John,

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Speaker 1: And he, by the way, was just the first a

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Speaker 1: long line of musicians that the Stephans would go on

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Speaker 1: to help We've talked about that before with Shakira sitting

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Speaker 3: There are good people out there. Yeah. Sicata had that

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Speaker 2: I remember giving me a reason, give me a reason

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Speaker 3: To say or stay I don't really remember.

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Speaker 1: Whatever that was was beautiful. I'm sorry, where's Joseph is?

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Speaker 1: Just the day?

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Speaker 3: Whatever? John sis Johnson?

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Speaker 1: That was amazing And I don't want you to come

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Speaker 1: The album went on to sell over eight million copies worldwide,

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: You think Glodia would take a break given all her success,

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Speaker 2: This was the first album Emilio didn't produce, and you

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Speaker 1: She remade disco hits from her past. She did another

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Speaker 3: Before the decade ended, she had released twenty one records

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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, new Kids on the Block. You still have

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Speaker 3: It, the Latin Explosion.

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Speaker 1: That's right, I forgot. Glodia performed with in sync on

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Speaker 1: I say, go for it, Glodia, do all of those things.

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Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, she released a song produced by Pharrell Williams.

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Speaker 1: You got it, Oh, and of course don't forget acting, Joseph.

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Speaker 3: Really and like, is that all?

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Speaker 1: It's Gloria. We're not done yet. Funds have made themselves

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. She authored two children's books, The

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Speaker 2: Tell me how does she find time to do all

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Speaker 2: of this? Is she everything everywhere all at once?

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Speaker 1: I love that movie. And she's an icon. Joseph, you

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Speaker 1: you're Beyonce or when you're someone like Gloria. They just

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Speaker 3: Basically, she is topped everything like what's missing?

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Speaker 1: what's next for Santa Glodia, well that's a whole other episode.

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Speaker 3: On the next Becoming an Icon.

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Speaker 1: Join us along with our very special guest to chat

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Speaker 1: more about the legacy of Gloria and Emilio Stefan, not

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