Gloria Estefan's family is everything to her

Award-winning performing artist Gloria Estefan has stayed true to the values her mother brought her up with. - AFP Photo

Singer Gloria Estefan talks about her Cuban heritage, her mum’s strong moral code and how she nursed her dad when he developed multiple sclerosis after the Vietnam War.

I LEFT Cuba for Miami when I was two. I remember rosaries and my mum dragging me to prayer groups because my dad was a political prisoner in Cuba after fighting against Castro at the Bay of Pigs.