Gloria Estefan Thanks Gay Community, Drag Queens For Their Support (WATCH)

On Friday, Miami's one-woman sound machine Gloria Estefan showed up at Miami Beach gay club Score for the video release party for her new single, "Hotel Nacional."

Estefan addressed the amped crowd and expressed her gratitude to the gay community.

"I want to thank you so much, because the gay community has been behind me 100%," she said, as seen in the video below. "'Conga' broke through in all the gay clubs before anybody else noticed it was a hot song. You guys have been close to heart and always will be."

She recalled that for her 1994 single "Everlasting Love," she was nine months pregnant and didn't want to be on camera.

She told the Score crowd, "So who could do me better than me? You!"

The crowd responded with shouts of "Las dragas!," referring to the female impersonators Estefan cast for the music video.

"Hotel Nacional" is off Little Miss Havana, Estefan's first English-language album since 2003. Pharrell Williams, who also lives in Miami, produced the album along with Estefan's husband Emilio.

Click below for videos of Estefan's Score appearance as well her music videos.

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Comments

[SimonBao]

11:59 PM on 02/06/2012

I'll ignore the completely irrelevant comments about the GOP and Cubans and politics.

It's a damn surprising tune. Listen to it again and tell me if you do not hear touches of some very swingy Klezmer repeatedly surfacing in the music. It's not just that it has clarinets and saxophones, those instruments are sounding more Klezmer than Dixieland to me.

In any case... it's a fun tune. :-)

[Al91206]

11:10 AM on 02/06/2012

Touching, but her record for donating and voting for Republicans tells a different story.

[MiamiProud]

03:17 PM on 02/06/2012

In the land of the free,you are judged by the line you toe by the radical leftists.

[Al91206]

03:41 PM on 02/06/2012

Republicans have done a fine job brainwashing the Cuban population - though probably not a leap from Castro himself. Best way to eradicate communism is to open not close trade and political links. Conservatives thrive on the status quo in Cuba.

[Euglena Vorticella]

09:58 AM on 02/07/2012

first we are radical leftists, then socialists! Then you say WE put people down? Too funny, please look up fascism and you will see that is the repblican party. I AM A PROGRESSIVE. We progressives have a better vision for the future, unlike REgressives who look backward.

[Euglena Vorticella]

08:27 AM on 02/07/2012

yes, Cuban Americans still blame the Dems for the failed Bay of Pigs. So they vote republican. WHAT HAVE THE REPUBS EVER DONE FOR THEM? EL DIABLO STILL RULES CUBA. If Cubans voted Dem Duhbyuh wouldn't even come close to winning in 2000. Gore would not have ignored the August Presidential Daily Briefing about Bin Laden, hence no 911, and no Iraq either.

[DARK STAR]

08:52 AM on 02/07/2012

They believed the propaganda, anther Dem, Carter, allowed them to come to USA in droves in 1980, you'd think that would be an important note but it isn't.

Everyone made it with help, everyone, no exceptions. The GOP are adept at making you believe you made it "on your own."