May 9, 2025 • 11 mins
Gloria Estefan tells us all about her new music and the new broadway show she's been working on titled Basura!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Elvin Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
He's here, Gloria Stefan, Right.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, so happy to be here again.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm happy to be anywhere exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Listen, you're not kidding.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Thank you for coming in to talk about your project
coming up May twenty ninth. Risis. Yes, of course, it
all came from the song.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It all came from that one song.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Now, talk about that song and how it made you go,
why there's something more than just a song here?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You know. A couple of years ago, Emileo he works
with a million artists, and he comes to me and
he says, Babe, I wrote this song. I would love
for you to be the one to sing it. And
I go, Babe, I'm writing this musical with Emily. We've
been working three years. I go, I can't divert because
my brain is in that mode.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I have to do eighteen new songs. And he goes,
you trust me. I go absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He goes, will you let me write more songs so
that if you like them, you could do this album?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Like I go.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If I do an album, I want it to be
tropical Spanish. So he's played me the demo for na
he says, and I go, oh, my gosh, this is
just so special, so positive. We need positive vibes out
in the world. No, it's our job as musicians, that
is our mandate to you know, entertain or make you
forget or give you something positive to think about it.
(01:18):
And then he brought me spectacular songs. I only wrote
one from my grandson Sasha, and.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Gloria hasn't done an all Spanish album I think in
almost twenty years. Fifteen years. Yeah, but let's talk about
the spirit of this album because it really I don't know.
I get the feeling from people I've talked to about
this project is it's sort of a celebration of fifty
years of all you the bands.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And forty nine years of love because it's a it's
a kind of autobiographical love story.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
In fact, the Melia comes to me and he says,
I wrote you a love song.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I go, oh, babe, that's so sweet. Are you going
to see He goes, no, you're going to sing it
to me.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He wrote his own love song.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I go, that's so you.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But I do mean every word in it. Here my mind.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I think back to add years ago and it was
all very well told him story for him in your
musical on your Feet, Yes, which was on Broadway for
a couple of years, and I thought that was just
a beautiful way to tell the story of you, Miami
Sound Machine. I use the kind of person who thinks
that you know, once you stop adding to the house,
then you cease to exist. I mean if you if
(02:22):
you stop, then I.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Never get bored.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So I can perfectly be happy doing nothing because my
brain is always going and there's always something that I'm
going to do. Emilia can't stop like he He's one
of those people that he's going to be working until
the day he moves on because he loves every minute
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And he has a d D.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So even when he's home for a couple of hours,
you see him hosing everything.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What is it with men and hoses? I have a theory.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have a theory about that hose. Oh yeah, me too, heymen,
let's hear for the hose everyone. Oh I got hose
in different area. Coach also has all right.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So you said that you wanted to do this one
in Spanish and Tropical. Why after twenty years is that
important to you at this moment?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Full circle?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, the first music that I ever listened to
was my mom's record collection that got smuggled slowly by
my grandma out of Cuba, mango babyfood boxes that she
would saddle the pilots of with. We'd get a knock
on her apartment and it be a pilot holding a
box of baby food and records in there. And it's
my heart language, you know, Spanish is my heart language.
(03:32):
English is my cerebral head language, but Spanish is something
very special for me.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, speaking of that, so I did some growing up
in Miami and you're obviously royalty, a legend and icon
specifically there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's true about it.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Can you go anywhere without getting mob down there?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Another era? No, you know, everybody feels like I'm their own.
So what I do get a lot of is just
give me a hug. I love that I get that
here in New York and people want to hug me
and they're so they thank me for things and then
for you know, being Latina and for representing. It's just
a blessing to me. But I go out my grandson
(04:12):
and I go to escape rooms alone all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We love that. I love doing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's kind of creepy escape.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
They're great, they're great and we still be there if
it wasn't for him.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No. Escaping absolutely another glory thing. I'm love it. Of course.
Misund Machine is Guardians the Galaxy at Epcot. Yeah, okay,
you don't get to choose the music when you ride.
It's the world's best ride. Love I love it, and
you don't get to choose music. But when when the
conger comes on, you're like, ah, I made it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I got Tears for Fears my favorite. Everybody wants to
the world.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Wait, how do you get on that ride? Like, do
they call you and say we want to use your song?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well that was before you know they prepared that, and
I was honored to be one of six songs that
gets played on that thing. I joke because my assistant
has a friend that every time she gets on there,
they play Gonga and she thinks, I'm I'm the one
orchestrating this.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Everywhere she goes, Conga gets played.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
No, no, was it Beigun or I mean, first of all,
you know, Disney, come on, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Miami is its own being without doubt. You can go
anywhere in America or almost anywhere in the world, and
you just don't get the same feeling you get.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, we have our own foreign policy and everything.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Absolutely country, the city and so from there, staying there,
roots there, businesses, their career, their family there. Yes. I
mean if anyone ever say hey, if you thought about
moving living somewhere else, and you would say what hell no.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, that's my home. I don't want to go anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So this album out twenty nine is really gonna be
It's gonna be like the Miami Soundtrack.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Absolutely, I mean absolutely, and you know what it's done.
I want to thank all the fans because I think
today or this week it's number one across three different charts,
the Tropical, the the Latin pop, airplay, whatever. And to
be back there like you always hope that people like it.
But that's it's great. It's really a humbling and beautiful experience.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Let's talk about Basua. Yes, now, it's interesting as we do.
Let's spill it. It's based in a landfill, yes, okay, okay,
So whose idea was this?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, Michael Schulman, the producer, came Frank was still around
and Frank go's you free to have this meeting. It's like,
in the one of the most difficult situations you can
be because these people ended up next to a landfill,
not by their choice. The landfill wasn't there before, and
it used to be a beautiful lake that little by little,
you know, the government started turning into a dump, a landfill,
(06:50):
and now it's one of the largest in South America,
with toxic ways coming down sits over the world's largest
fresh water reserve. Could give the world two hundred years
of water for every human and it's everything is so precarious.
So this environmental engineer guy went there trying to help,
and you know, it's very difficult to help in landfill.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So he did the next best thing.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
He started music classes for the kids that live there,
and they started an orchestra. And they started because the
instrument they didn't have. Instruments they couldn't survive, you know,
really good instruments, so they started making them out of
the trash. This one kid that lived outside and slept
outside all his life, and he had this idea and
they started making the instruments and now there are three
(07:33):
hundred students strong. They built the school out of the trash,
and it's just such hope.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And we fought hard for that title.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Because you know, Basuda it is what it is, and
it's the true inspirational story of finding music and unlikely
places and music can be born anywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
A brilliant plot. Right, So you worked with your daughter
on this, Yes, we did for three years.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
It was a secret ploy to have her spend more
time with me. It worked the other way, it worked.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So we just have.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Such a special team and it's so exciting. That's my
favorite thing, creating stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, So you're listening to Gloria Steffan talk about from
the fifty years ago to now and you look like
you're already bored with ready to move on to something now. No, no,
you're ready to start something new.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, I have a movie coming out in September. I
already shot it though they shot it. I'm so excited
that Gabby's Dollhouse. It's a big kids series and this
is the theatrical big movie DreamWorks release, and I play
Gabby's grandma who created this magical thing for her. So
it was a blast. And Kristin Wigg is in it.
(08:43):
That alone was a draw for me.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
She's kind of fun.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I mean, is there an artist that I can't even imagine?
You can probably call anybody and say hey, I want
to work with you, and they'd say yes, but is
there an artist you'd love to work with.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I've worked with so many artists and well with Sheila either.
We just want to Grammy for the Celia Cruz song
ben Baca, and when we released the track listing, all
these incredible artists said yes, and they literally held up
one of my tracks from We had a Shakita, Camilla,
(09:15):
Carol King who is friend Dresher, my grandson, Emilio, Sam Smith,
and I Pardoner, Cindy Lauper, Cindy Lauper, Cindy also just
these amazing the name Wow, wait.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Friend dresser by smell every now and then, okay, friend Dresser.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
We've worked together and I love her. I'm a huge
fan of hers as well. So I've sang with all
three of the tenors. I've sung with huge artists in
the Latin world.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It's just so basically you're saying, yah, nobody left.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And by the way, I never it all happened by accident.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It's not that I said, oh, let me call this person,
but I've it's been a few years, so I've had
the opportunity to Saint I'll tra Tony Bennett. So everything
I look at as a gift, and the baby's always
a different thing than I would have done or that
they would have done.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So it's always exciting, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Congratulations on everything.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Thank you say.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
To have your in your spirit in this room with
us right now is just more than fabulous. It's very fabulous, Gloria,
stefan Rasis comes out May twenty ninth, and of course
when does us Goanna hit the stage.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
May thirtieth in the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, of twenty
six and then hopefully in twenty seven for Broadway. We
shall see. But we're so so excited.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, you have reason to be excited. We're excited to
hear it and see it all.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Thank you, Gloria, thanks for giving me the time. Thank
you all absoluly by the way. I love what you do.
I would I would love to be a DJ.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I would have loved Well, okay, is that next on
the list.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm not going to take your job, Elvis, you might
give it to you. You got a hard call time
every day, Yes, it is. That part might be tough.
Thank you so much, thank you so much, thank you,
Elvin Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
He's here, Gloria Stefan, Right.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, so happy to be here again.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm happy to be anywhere exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Listen, you're not kidding.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Thank you for coming in to talk about your project
coming up May twenty ninth. Risis. Yes, of course, it
all came from the song.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It all came from that one song.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Now, talk about that song and how it made you go,
why there's something more than just a song here?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You know. A couple of years ago, Emileo he works
with a million artists, and he comes to me and
he says, Babe, I wrote this song. I would love
for you to be the one to sing it. And
I go, Babe, I'm writing this musical with Emily. We've
been working three years. I go, I can't divert because
my brain is in that mode.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I have to do eighteen new songs. And he goes,
you trust me. I go absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He goes, will you let me write more songs so
that if you like them, you could do this album?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Like I go.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If I do an album, I want it to be
tropical Spanish. So he's played me the demo for na
he says, and I go, oh, my gosh, this is
just so special, so positive. We need positive vibes out
in the world. No, it's our job as musicians, that
is our mandate to you know, entertain or make you
forget or give you something positive to think about it.
(01:18):
And then he brought me spectacular songs. I only wrote
one from my grandson Sasha, and.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Gloria hasn't done an all Spanish album I think in
almost twenty years. Fifteen years. Yeah, but let's talk about
the spirit of this album because it really I don't know.
I get the feeling from people I've talked to about
this project is it's sort of a celebration of fifty
years of all you the bands.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And forty nine years of love because it's a it's
a kind of autobiographical love story.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
In fact, the Melia comes to me and he says,
I wrote you a love song.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I go, oh, babe, that's so sweet. Are you going
to see He goes, no, you're going to sing it
to me.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He wrote his own love song.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I go, that's so you.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But I do mean every word in it. Here my mind.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I think back to add years ago and it was
all very well told him story for him in your
musical on your Feet, Yes, which was on Broadway for
a couple of years, and I thought that was just
a beautiful way to tell the story of you, Miami
Sound Machine. I use the kind of person who thinks
that you know, once you stop adding to the house,
then you cease to exist. I mean if you if
(02:22):
you stop, then I.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Never get bored.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So I can perfectly be happy doing nothing because my
brain is always going and there's always something that I'm
going to do. Emilia can't stop like he He's one
of those people that he's going to be working until
the day he moves on because he loves every minute
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And he has a d D.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So even when he's home for a couple of hours,
you see him hosing everything.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What is it with men and hoses? I have a theory.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have a theory about that hose. Oh yeah, me too, heymen,
let's hear for the hose everyone. Oh I got hose
in different area. Coach also has all right.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So you said that you wanted to do this one
in Spanish and Tropical. Why after twenty years is that
important to you at this moment?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Full circle?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, the first music that I ever listened to
was my mom's record collection that got smuggled slowly by
my grandma out of Cuba, mango babyfood boxes that she
would saddle the pilots of with. We'd get a knock
on her apartment and it be a pilot holding a
box of baby food and records in there. And it's
my heart language, you know, Spanish is my heart language.
(03:32):
English is my cerebral head language, but Spanish is something
very special for me.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, speaking of that, so I did some growing up
in Miami and you're obviously royalty, a legend and icon
specifically there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's true about it.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Can you go anywhere without getting mob down there?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Another era? No, you know, everybody feels like I'm their own.
So what I do get a lot of is just
give me a hug. I love that I get that
here in New York and people want to hug me
and they're so they thank me for things and then
for you know, being Latina and for representing. It's just
a blessing to me. But I go out my grandson
(04:12):
and I go to escape rooms alone all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We love that. I love doing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's kind of creepy escape.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
They're great, they're great and we still be there if
it wasn't for him.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No. Escaping absolutely another glory thing. I'm love it. Of course.
Misund Machine is Guardians the Galaxy at Epcot. Yeah, okay,
you don't get to choose the music when you ride.
It's the world's best ride. Love I love it, and
you don't get to choose music. But when when the
conger comes on, you're like, ah, I made it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I got Tears for Fears my favorite. Everybody wants to
the world.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Wait, how do you get on that ride? Like, do
they call you and say we want to use your song?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well that was before you know they prepared that, and
I was honored to be one of six songs that
gets played on that thing. I joke because my assistant
has a friend that every time she gets on there,
they play Gonga and she thinks, I'm I'm the one
orchestrating this.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Everywhere she goes, Conga gets played.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
No, no, was it Beigun or I mean, first of all,
you know, Disney, come on, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Miami is its own being without doubt. You can go
anywhere in America or almost anywhere in the world, and
you just don't get the same feeling you get.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, we have our own foreign policy and everything.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Absolutely country, the city and so from there, staying there,
roots there, businesses, their career, their family there. Yes. I
mean if anyone ever say hey, if you thought about
moving living somewhere else, and you would say what hell no.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, that's my home. I don't want to go anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So this album out twenty nine is really gonna be
It's gonna be like the Miami Soundtrack.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Absolutely, I mean absolutely, and you know what it's done.
I want to thank all the fans because I think
today or this week it's number one across three different charts,
the Tropical, the the Latin pop, airplay, whatever. And to
be back there like you always hope that people like it.
But that's it's great. It's really a humbling and beautiful experience.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Let's talk about Basua. Yes, now, it's interesting as we do.
Let's spill it. It's based in a landfill, yes, okay, okay,
So whose idea was this?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, Michael Schulman, the producer, came Frank was still around
and Frank go's you free to have this meeting. It's like,
in the one of the most difficult situations you can
be because these people ended up next to a landfill,
not by their choice. The landfill wasn't there before, and
it used to be a beautiful lake that little by little,
you know, the government started turning into a dump, a landfill,
(06:50):
and now it's one of the largest in South America,
with toxic ways coming down sits over the world's largest
fresh water reserve. Could give the world two hundred years
of water for every human and it's everything is so precarious.
So this environmental engineer guy went there trying to help,
and you know, it's very difficult to help in landfill.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So he did the next best thing.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
He started music classes for the kids that live there,
and they started an orchestra. And they started because the
instrument they didn't have. Instruments they couldn't survive, you know,
really good instruments, so they started making them out of
the trash. This one kid that lived outside and slept
outside all his life, and he had this idea and
they started making the instruments and now there are three
(07:33):
hundred students strong. They built the school out of the trash,
and it's just such hope.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And we fought hard for that title.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Because you know, Basuda it is what it is, and
it's the true inspirational story of finding music and unlikely
places and music can be born anywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
A brilliant plot. Right, So you worked with your daughter
on this, Yes, we did for three years.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
It was a secret ploy to have her spend more
time with me. It worked the other way, it worked.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So we just have.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Such a special team and it's so exciting. That's my
favorite thing, creating stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, So you're listening to Gloria Steffan talk about from
the fifty years ago to now and you look like
you're already bored with ready to move on to something now. No, no,
you're ready to start something new.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, I have a movie coming out in September. I
already shot it though they shot it. I'm so excited
that Gabby's Dollhouse. It's a big kids series and this
is the theatrical big movie DreamWorks release, and I play
Gabby's grandma who created this magical thing for her. So
it was a blast. And Kristin Wigg is in it.
(08:43):
That alone was a draw for me.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
She's kind of fun.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I mean, is there an artist that I can't even imagine?
You can probably call anybody and say hey, I want
to work with you, and they'd say yes, but is
there an artist you'd love to work with.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I've worked with so many artists and well with Sheila either.
We just want to Grammy for the Celia Cruz song
ben Baca, and when we released the track listing, all
these incredible artists said yes, and they literally held up
one of my tracks from We had a Shakita, Camilla,
(09:15):
Carol King who is friend Dresher, my grandson, Emilio, Sam Smith,
and I Pardoner, Cindy Lauper, Cindy Lauper, Cindy also just
these amazing the name Wow, wait.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Friend dresser by smell every now and then, okay, friend Dresser.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
We've worked together and I love her. I'm a huge
fan of hers as well. So I've sang with all
three of the tenors. I've sung with huge artists in
the Latin world.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It's just so basically you're saying, yah, nobody left.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And by the way, I never it all happened by accident.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It's not that I said, oh, let me call this person,
but I've it's been a few years, so I've had
the opportunity to Saint I'll tra Tony Bennett. So everything
I look at as a gift, and the baby's always
a different thing than I would have done or that
they would have done.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So it's always exciting, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Congratulations on everything.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Thank you say.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
To have your in your spirit in this room with
us right now is just more than fabulous. It's very fabulous, Gloria,
stefan Rasis comes out May twenty ninth, and of course
when does us Goanna hit the stage.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
May thirtieth in the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, of twenty
six and then hopefully in twenty seven for Broadway. We
shall see. But we're so so excited.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, you have reason to be excited. We're excited to
hear it and see it all.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Thank you, Gloria, thanks for giving me the time. Thank
you all absoluly by the way. I love what you do.
I would I would love to be a DJ.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I would have loved Well, okay, is that next on
the list.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm not going to take your job, Elvis, you might
give it to you. You got a hard call time
every day, Yes, it is. That part might be tough.
Thank you so much, thank you so much, thank you,
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