Emilio Estefan

I was promoting a holiday single last year, so my time was preoccupied.

I released Un Año Mas and then the English version One More Year produced by Emilio Estefan, husband of Gloria Estefan, who I've known since I was a teenager.

So a lot of my Christmas gifts were like last minute purchases.

So I hope that I can get things done in the fall time and get them wrapped and get them done.

Then he taught music at a community college.

In the late 80s, friends introduced him to Emilio Estefan, who loved his demo tape and became his mentor and manager.

Now, John, like I said, sang backup for Emilio's wife, Gloria Estefan.

He actually co-wrote six songs on her 1991 album, Into the Light, including Gloria's number one hit, Coming Out of the Dark.

Before

joining the U.S. Army in 2012, he worked as a professional trumpet player with renowned music stars including Ricky Martin, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, and Casey and the Sunshine Band.

During this time, he also performed for the Broadway musical On Your Feet, the Latin American Grammys, the Latin Billboards, Audio Network, and many others.

Sergeant First Class Quinones began his Army career at Fort Bragg, North Carolina as a member of the Army Ground Forces Band.

Let's

say when I started doing music and I went with Emilio and Gloria and then he was, you know, producing for J-Lo, producing for Shakira, you know.

English album and crossover and things like that, I would go to the garbage and take the stuff that they would throw away.

What garbage?

It's there and my BMIs are there and I won the Billboard Best New Artist and, you know, my biggest hit, it was, you know, written by me too, which is Rezo.

Oh, so you got to keep everything? Well, we signed with a label so that things change,

right? The label doesn't necessarily keep the music, but I did have a co-publishing as a songwriter with Emilio Estefan at the beginning.

And I love Emilio and we just, you know, after that we kind of parted ways in that sense, but I now own my own.

As such, they went about finding a new lead vocalist, eventually landing on Brian Johnson, who Bon Scott himself had once hailed as, quote, "a great rock 'n' roll singer in the style of Little Richard." In 1985, thanks to an innovative video that took place inside of a comic book, Take on Me gave the Norwegian group A-ha a number one hit in America.

In 1985, Miami Sound Machine made the Hot 100 for the first time with Conga, a song that opens the doors for Latin pop and introduces America to lead singer Gloria Estefan, married to group leader Emilio Estefan.

The song also brings conga lines to the fore when it becomes a staple of weddings and other celebrations.

In 1991, at a gig in Texas, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain got into a fight with a bouncer.

Those early days.

I've talked to Emilio about it a few times.

And I really have fought for a lot that I've had.

And like even like auditioning for bands and stuff like I was so I was just I stood out.

now.

You know, it's funny because I didn't, I always felt in my bones because, you know, when you're a singer, everybody's like, Oh, you have to meet Gloria and Amelia.

Why don't you try to find them or contact them? And I just, and I was always, obviously I loved Gloria, but like, I mean, I had done so much in my career when I started working with her and Emilio, but I met Emilio first.

And he I got a call to like do demos and then him and I really click like I really, really, really love Emilio.