Gloria Estefan is looking back on fleeing Cuba. During a recent episode of her family's talk show "Red Table Talk: The Estefans," the 64-year-old music icon reflected on the harrowing experience and the effect that it had on her family.
The "Turn the Beat Around" singer was born in 1957, just a few years before Fidel Castro's historic assumption of power in the island nation. "I left Cuba when I was literally two and a half years old," she recalled, per Entertainment Tonight. "In May of 1960, I was brought to the U.S.
because my father was a police officer for the Cuban government." Estefan said that the night that Castro, who died in 2016, took power in 1959, her father came home with troubling news.
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