According to her sister, one of Gloria's favorite pastimes is to write parodies of her own love songs. "Anything For You" becomes "Anything For Food," "Coming Out Of The Dark" becomes "I Got Mugged In The Park," and rumor has it that there is even PG-13-rated version of her song "Cuts Both Ways" entitled "I Go Both Ways." When asked for details, however, Estefan demurs. "I have to keep my raunchy lyrics to myself." She laughs, adding with a wink, "Everyone has to have a secret side."  

Gloria's has done some commercials.
For her smashing "Into The Light World Tour" she did commercials for Pepsi & Bacardi Breezer

In the summer she and Emilio purchased Miami Beach's famed art deco Cardozo Hotel from Chris Blackwell for $5 million. The hotel was used in the movie "There is something about Mary".   Emilio on buying their restaurants & hotels: "the reason I bought Larios and the Cardozo was very much for Gloria. Anything I do, I talk to Gloria, because she is a smart businessperson and she has the right principles". "We used to go to Larios, and we would tell the Larios family how great it would be to have a Cuban restaurant on the Beach", says Emilio, "because every time we bring firneds from all over the world [to Miami], they want to go to South Beach and eat Cuban food. The people who used to live on the Beach were very health-oriented, and they said Cuban food would not work here. We wanted to buy this building and put it back the way it used to be in the Deco era. It was a sort of a hobby.

Emilio conceived the design for Bongos. Famed Miami architectural firm Architectonica came up with and old-style Cuban restaurant with a "year 2000 feel"

Emilio left Cuba when he was 13 to go to Spain. He lived a year-and-a-half in Spain, and then came to the States.

The Miami Latin Boys were formed in 1974. Then when Gloria came to the band in 1976, he changed the name to Miami Sound Machine. The reason he chose Miami Sound Machine was because he knew there was going to be (the) sound of Cuban immigrants coming to the States from both cultures.
At home, they used to listen to Celia Cruz and Chacao - all of the Cuban music - and at the same time they grew up with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Motown. So there was this confusion.

Carlos Olivia was Emilio's best man at their wedding.

Emilio's biggest memories in the past 20 years?
"One is the first time we knew Gloria was No. 1 in England, with "Dr. Beat". Nobody believed in that song, and we didn't even push it. 
The second memory is the day Gloria came back from the (tour-bus) accident - the first night here in Miami. When I held her, she said, "I'm back". You can't take anything for granted. Just because you are famous one day does not mean you will be famous another day. And you could lose your career in an accident. So, instead of saying, "I cannot sing,"she said, "I am going to sing, and I am going to do it well". 
And the third is when we played Guantànamo. It was great, just going back to play on Cuban soil. Gloria said, "I'm going to cry; I swear to God, I'm going to be an example". But forget it; once she began to sing "Mi Tierra", she was crying all over the place. She never likes to show her emotions. Another important memory was when we played for President Bush, and my knees were shaking in the Osvald Office. When you are an immigrant, you see things differently. You get to the White House, you have all of this security and whoa! You say, "Is this me? Is this real?"

During her Evolution tour, Estefan and Sears, the tour's sponsor, started OYE! Opportunities for Youth Employment, a program that has given $20,000 grants to children's charities in thirty four cities. As a thank-you, Sears gave Estefan a $100,000 donation to the charity of her choice. Moved by their generosity, sheadded another $150,000, earmarked for the Miami Project, a research center for spinal cord injuries in Jacksonville. 

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