Emilio Estefan: Meet Gloria Estefan’s Husband

Emilio Estefan Gómez is a Cuban-American producer and musician who is married to Gloria Estefan is a singer, actress, and businesswoman.

In 1976,they began dating and the couple married in 1978. Emilio Estefan was her first and only boyfriend, she proudly admitted.

They have one son and one daughter and continue to reside in the Star Island neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida.

Emilio Estefan is credited with laying the groundwork for Latin music’s crossover explosion in the late 1990s. Estefan has received 19 Grammy Awards.

Estefan was named BMI’s “Songwriter of the Year” in 2005 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, he received the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame’s Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award.

President Barack Obama bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Estefan in November 2015, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In 2019, he was also awarded the Gershwin Prize by the Library of Congress.

In April 2014, Estefan and her husband were honored at the 2014 “Power of Love Event for Keep Memory Alive” in Las Vegas, where other musicians, including Ricky Martin and Rita Moreno offered the couple a tribute to their music.