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Gloria Estefan’s Biggest Hits, Ranked (Editors’ Picks)

Billboard editors rank Gloria Estefan's hits, including her No. 1s on Hot Latin Songs and the Hot 100 and the essentials with Miami Sound Machine.

With dozens of chart hits as part of the group that gifted us “Conga” and “Rhythm is Gonna Get You” in the ’80s — and later with her first Spanish album, the Grammy-winning Mi Tierra — the Cuban-American singer-songwriter (along with her husband, visionary producer Emilio Estefan) was “Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors),” as her song says, infusing Latin flavor into English pop music while singing simultaneously in her native language. Part of her debut solo album, “Don’t Wanna Lose You” — and its respective Spanish version, “Si Voy a Perderte” — is a quintessential Gloria Estefan pop ballad song thrives on her evocative vocals and emotive lyrics. For her first release following the March 20, 1990 accident that nearly claimed her life — when a truck crashed into her tour bus and left her temporarily paralyzed — Estefan wrote this powerful ballad about getting up and out of the darkness, grateful for the support from her husband Emilio and her family, as well as the prayers of her fans.

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