Let It Loose: A Gloria Este-FAN Podcast
Let It Loose: A Gloria Este-FAN Podcast is the first fan-led podcast dedicated to the life, legacy, and music of Gloria Estefan. Lifelong Este-FANS Carlos, Rob, and Wes dive deep into 50 years of hits, history, live performances, and personal stories. They’re celebrating the songs and the cultural impact behind them. Each week, they revisit career-defining moments and spotlight fans whose lives were shaped by Gloria’s music. If Gloria soundtracked your life, this is your place.
Let It Loose: A Gloria Este-FAN Podcast
Mi Tierra Con Alejandro Bujan (En Español)
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En este episodio conversamos con Alejandro Bujan sobre su conexión con Cuba, sus aportes a la cultura cubana y la manera en que ha utilizado las redes sociales para mantener vivas nuestras tradiciones y compartirlas con el mundo. También hablamos del enorme legado de Gloria y Emilio Estefan y de todo lo que han hecho para celebrar, representar y conectar a los cubanos alrededor del mundo.
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Bienvenidos todos a Let It Lose, no se lo pierdan, aquí estamos con Laura. Rob Carlos, los amo con todo mi corazón.
SPEAKER_01Hola, hola y bienvenidos una vez más a Let It Lose en español. Me llamo Rob. Yo soy Carlos.
SPEAKER_00Y yo soy Laura.
SPEAKER_01Y estamos de regreso, mira esto. Hace mucho tiempo. Demasiado.
SPEAKER_04Bueno, no tanto tampoco.
SPEAKER_01Bueno, hemos estado trabajando detrás de las cámaras por mucho tiempo preparando episodios. So me parece que no hemos tomado ningún descanso, pero hemos tomado.
SPEAKER_04Pero bueno, aquí aquí estamos.
SPEAKER_01Aquí estamos. Y en este episodio vamos a hablar específicamente sobre el impacto cultural que Gloria y Emilio han tenido a través del mundo según la cultura cubana. Ha sido bastante, bastante. Y antes que nada queremos empezar con esta semana en la historia Stefan. No, no hay que tener miedo. El día 10 de septiembre salió un disco.
SPEAKER_04El diez de septiembre. Ah, pero dime el año.
SPEAKER_01El diez de septiembre. No. Bueno, puede ser que sí, pero no. Okay. Creo que el español. En los dos. Oh, un rap no.
SPEAKER_00Gloria.
SPEAKER_01En francés. En francés, en portugués. The standards. The standards.
SPEAKER_02Ah, okay.
SPEAKER_01El 10 de September del 2013. Hace mucho tiempo que se pasó The Standards. Estamos aquí esperando The Standards for Part Two todavía. Pero son boleros. Boleros. Eso es lo que yo quiero. Yo quiero The Standards in español, pero que sea canciones antiguas de Cuba. Eso sería bellísimo.
SPEAKER_04Muy interesante. ¿Cuál fue la canción que ella cantó con José Feliciano, que era un bolero? Sabor a mí. Sabor a mí.
SPEAKER_01Esa fue la canción que ella cantó en esta boda cuando conoció a Emilio. Sabor a mí. No?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Qué increíble fue el disco de The Standards. Porque como dijiste, francés, Portugués, English, Español. Italiano. Ah, verdad que sí. Me fascinó la versión que hicieron de Smile con Laura Pasolini. What a difference of uh difference of a day makes. Oh, arreglo. ¿Cómo se llama el señor Shellyberg? Yeah. Wow. So eso fue en el 2013. Estamos en el 2026. So ya fueron. Do the math. Mira eso. Alright.
SPEAKER_01Bueno, Huesito Jr. Bien no sé, but it's a musiquita.
SPEAKER_04We have Alejandro Buhan, creator of contention cubic and one of the voices more interesting of the culture pop cubana in the reading social. On the page of Instagram, Cuba says Alejandro has to promote the culture for many people and the island. Bienvenue, Alejandro!
SPEAKER_03Much for you to invit me and for celebrities of Gloria and celebrate a little bit of our culture. Oye, ¿cómo está la gente in Hayalia? Todo el mundo iste, tú sabes que in Hayalea vive una Cubanía very bonita, very fresca, and I'm Cuba for now, and Laura, just so you know, Hayaleah is like Little Havana.
SPEAKER_04Well, in Miami tenemos Little Havana, but Hayalea is como una extinción.
SPEAKER_03Exacto. Una extinción de Cuba.
SPEAKER_00Qué chulo.
SPEAKER_03Hay una cubita como más residential. Little Havana is un poco más como La Habana Vieja, y Hayalea is more Centro Habana, que es como más movidito.
SPEAKER_01Y sabes que donde yo crecí en New Jersey, se llamaba Havana and the Hudson because Cubanos in this pueblito.
SPEAKER_03No way. New Jersey tiene una gran community of Cubanos. Creo que fue la primera. De hecho, fue the prime.
SPEAKER_04Wow.
SPEAKER_00Qué fuerte.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. You want to go ahead and get started? All right.
SPEAKER_00Perfecto. Estamos muy contentos de tenerte, Alejandro. Pero me gustaría que nos contaras un poco quién eres and the meta of the container that produces in your cup.
SPEAKER_03Thank you for this. Me gusta, I gotta say. Alejandro Buhan, I'm a Cuban, I'm in Cuba, but I lived in Asia. I try to connect much to the Cuban with our culture, with the Cuban, and with what we did for the process that we have, which has been a process of connection total. And it's very important that the new generations connect this reality and connect our traditions, and not with this problem and what we enter in the political, and be cuban is a dictionary, not misery, repression. But try to celebrate our culture. This is a page that I began with Incuba, we don't say, and I put phrases of this videos, phrases, and the people who are much, and what kind of people are going to do my culture, not also to my people, but to the world. And three years in this, and many.
SPEAKER_04Alejandro, yo tengo una hija that tiene 27 años.
SPEAKER_00Pero no lo digas, Carlos.
SPEAKER_03Ah sí.
SPEAKER_04Ah, sí.
SPEAKER_00Y hablando de gente joven, ¿qué artists marcan atent in your niñez?
SPEAKER_03I'm a family who am the music cubic. But I am. I think my father is my father and my professor of music. I thought the day, I don't know if I'm tantas that today, after I had 23 years and I'm in this, today I enseigned cantants cubans that I don't connect, and I saw it and it's like I don't know the video because I've got the videos of YouTube. And I have to say.mp3, and I hope that I put when I was in the Cuba. And I think that this is like my can I regret it.
SPEAKER_00I put the pillow, and that's what I think to me.
SPEAKER_03But for mentioning others, because I think I said Celia Cruz me gust Olga Guillot. Olga Guillot. Olga Guillotes is a great old in the gentleman that's right. Olga Guillot, Celia, but Olga no, and it has been a great old idea, and most people said that he was Mexican. Celia Cruz, Olga Guillot, Gloria, because with Gloria I think different. Gloria to my generation and represent that concept that was libre, that I had this reward that had Celia, who had Olga, and it's connected to a Cuba libre. I think I have the connection for my life, for my races. And these can I form a little bit more, and I think that my alternator in my can't worry, it's eyes and Cuba, and it was like consuming specifically in Cuba.
SPEAKER_01How was this process in your job?
SPEAKER_03The internet as a Cuba in 2018. It was an access super complex. For me, I don't know what Netflix, I didn't know what platforms of streaming or platforms like back and follow, they carry data automatically. You know that for you were very important those things. And you had to carry those things, but also I didn't carry it for if I was, and there were applications that were to carry the videos of YouTube, nothing like in the moment. So I carry a package of things that you were, and then in your car. That's when the world was like 20 years ago in advance technology. For me, a publication, I saw not my videos personally, but QA starting in Cuba. And built a post that was an image that would have a megabyte, I demored much. Imagine the less that it was. And this was what in this moment the Cuba were so disconnected of the reality of the mind of the advances.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03There are plugins already that does. There are in Venezuela, one in Spanish, Laura, who talked of these phrases with this thematic. But in Cuba there was. I think that after 2021, I created Qasess, it was a very good thing. And I saw these page and I encourage me. And I said, I want to go to QAS, I want to do this with Cuba. But I don't know, I'm in Cuba, I spent a ignorance for Cuba, because I watched the stories of my wife when my wife was in 1939. When I had the chaos, I had 20 years. And I said that I was in the cars that were with me, and it was something that I imagine. It was a Cuba that I was living in a Cuba. But I celebrate this, and in 2021, I saw one. It was a moment very complicated because it was the 11th June. In that moment, I don't know if I'm going to say this. Okay. I used to use the term singao. And it occurred the idea of saying in Cuba, we don't say karma, we say for singao. I think that's beautiful. This I was at zero and I put it in the noche and I was, and when I desperated, it was viral.
SPEAKER_05Incredible.
SPEAKER_03None of what I was. And I started QASES, and at particular I said, if the university for promoting my culture, I'll see it. For sure.
SPEAKER_01Imagine. And what artists international sincerely or verdict to Cuba that you would be a fan of this?
SPEAKER_03In the world of the music. Or it was both single. And it's that, for example, in Cuba I used much repartout. The reggaeton was much in my moment. But I don't know what you've been in other music, in other music. And I would say what I'm going to say to me, but really not because I was at Cuba and I was very famous in Cuba, it's because I wanted to, because I watched a can of a lot of artists, Laura. I mean, I encourage Guitarrica de la Fuente. I escuchate much of a band that's Taburete. Some of the artists that I've been gonna say Leiva, Sabina.
SPEAKER_00Ya veo por donde vas.
SPEAKER_04Also crees that Cubas is what vincula at those three?
SPEAKER_03Cubases meet much of my life in States and my life in Cuba. With States mean very particular. I have the Cuba and the States. But with Studies United, I have a connection very profound and I'm very extremely. In fact, as I think a lot of times English with my accent, and a lot of people I think I'm saying in English, and I say, I don't know how this is, but in Spanish it's all a little bit of California, and I had a person I think I said to a person who goes to a city, because I was in a road trip that was in the mountains, there was internet, and the people have maps. I said, I have a map in my car, I spoke a map, I enjoy with a passion. And then I said, I don't want to buy the map. And I said, clear. And I said, Wow, this has been like I've been here and I agree because there are people who have experience because it's normal. But in my case, I've been very, and with QAs, there are public Esther that I impact. But I think the Stunents and Student is Irland, Britannic, who at the moment have been all in the largest, super of Florida, super of Cuba, and they impact and they have much the slend and the language of the island of the Caribe. And I've got this passion, and I said, I connect a Cuban, and after I hear those publications, I enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_03Wow, I mean. The other day a much, I have a cubic, for you, give me a phrase for a cubano. You said, Wow, in a moment, I dije, anota.
SPEAKER_04Increíble. ¿Qué tan important was creating contentious relation with your culture before I was the importance of creating my context?
SPEAKER_03I create my context with my imagination, with my voice, with my humor, and I show it along. Because it was something. You with QASIC phrases, but I don't say you, okay, I would say my experience. QAS I like from a community, not like Alejandro Whan. So I went with Alexandra Uhan, and I have my opinions, my perspectives, phrases that I hear my wife, and not to any other Cuban. But it's like I'm going to say you and show my Cuban. And I'm sure that many people are identified with my Cuban. There are people who don't work with religions, because I'm Habana, but in other regions of Cuba there are other expressions, and I have the liberty of the Cubanity that I represent a lot of people. And Cuba and videos, I think I'm connected with Cuba, at the same time I connect a little bit more with the community of Miami, because I, as I have been, I'm in all the life of Miami. So there are many things that I heard. The other day I was surprised that I started with a friend who was in the 60s and asked what Miami was. I said, It's a club, there was an hospital that was the hospital, the post office was the post office, and I was like, Wow, it's surprising. And I got a video of this, and I was approaching and told my process of connection and the culture of Uba.
SPEAKER_00It's gracious because La gente mayor cuando te enseña una ciudad o te está contando cosas de antaño, te dice antes todo esto era campo.
SPEAKER_03Creo que es una frase colectiva.
SPEAKER_00Ok, ahora vamos a centrarnos un poquito en Gloria. Eres mucho más joven than creciendo in Cuba.
SPEAKER_03Sí. In my case particularly, I think I've been a family who has been very dissident, I have been in the government. The family lived here in Students. But I had a little bit more of this and the Gloria many ways, as I said of Celia and all the people who, as I was canceled, my generation escuched a lot more of them. I was in 2002, in the year 2002. In the 2000s, there was much effort in the intercamp and more than the years 80 years, when the censure was a very horror, and there was much more control. In the 2000s, there were stories, there were many communication.
SPEAKER_00What represent the Stefan for the UK into your perspective?
SPEAKER_03The Stefan represent much, but for me it's an experience and it's an experience, and it's a motivation very important because the Stefans are not the family more important in the United States, but one of the families more important in the United States, and one of the families who have their voice, the Humanity. But you can do the action difficult, because it's a election difficult, which is the camera difficult, which is the defending the tool and promoting it. And I think the Stefans are a great motivation for one.
SPEAKER_01It's right. And I think that the Stefans are the opposite. What do you think they can promoting their culture at the time?
SPEAKER_03And we have music, promoting artists of all the singles, your community. This is super important. If you have a lot of time. But if this is a can, and there's a discussion of a cancer, it's a super gigantic. And mundially.
SPEAKER_01How do you know of canceling?
SPEAKER_03I have one that is very special for me because it was the one that I was, which is hoy. And I was very interested in it that I escuched for the prime in Voice of Gloria. I escuched the prime time in a disc that India Martinez Laura version of all cancer and what I surprised is that it was my favorite of this album that was India Martinez. And I sent a message very lovely, and I don't know why this message was. We can get in the fear and the arts, and they don't have the essence, and that for what we are living in Cuba don't hide Cuba, because Cuba is much more than this. And the cause we see much more when you escuch these cancer, because knowing that a person is a place that in this moment you destroy that when they are today, it's a ignorance, and a little bit more and the culture that we have, and most people say that it's fortunate in all the people to be here in Cuba by the dictator and with all this, but we know the great cultural that we have, and this is more important.
SPEAKER_04What do you want to explore or experiment?
SPEAKER_03Well, I encourage the communication, I think it's one of my passions. In Instagram, I think I can see a video of 60 seconds or 90 seconds. You know that in Instagram I can start more rapidly and more. I'm going to learn a little bit more, I'm going to have a platform a little bit more ample, I would like to make other Cubaans connect with Cuba. I'm going to the first and the second generations connect with them for their essence, their Spanish, which is more important, and I encourage a little bit. That's it. I had the suit of them. For me, it was an experience gigante, because I was, and after I have the dichotomy with them in a whole place, I think it's if this person images that the can stay at the end, now, like if not. Nothing and I should promoting the culture and there are opportunities. I have opportunities. I hope to look for them and get them away. But you know that the opportunities at the luck. For most people, it would be that we have opportunities because it's a inconsiderable. But I give the opportunities that you encourage approaching.
SPEAKER_04Exactly. Well, Alejandro, the Rapid Fire. Wow.
SPEAKER_03Well, if it's rapid, hold on, I think it's more rapid in espace than in English.
SPEAKER_01Okay, estás listo.
SPEAKER_03Listo.
SPEAKER_04Vamos. ¿Cuál es tu palabra cubana favorita?
SPEAKER_03Remanga la tuerca. Dilo otra vez. Remanga la tuerca. Me encanta. Dios mío.
SPEAKER_00Los tienes que traducir porque yo no la conozco.
SPEAKER_03Es un lugar muy lejos. ¿Dónde queda eso? En remangala tuerca.
SPEAKER_00Ok, Laura. ¿Cuál es tu palabra en inglés favorita convertida en nombre cubano?
SPEAKER_02Usimi.
SPEAKER_04Me encanta.
SPEAKER_01Clásica. Y la conozco. Pero yo también. ¿Qué palabra o expresión cubana usas demasiado?
SPEAKER_03Candela. Uso mucho candela y alabao. Alabao.
SPEAKER_04Alabao. ¿Cuál es la palabra cubana que más trabajo te cuesta explicarle a alguien que no es cubano?
SPEAKER_02Mi madre, qué trabajo esta pregunta. Aquí sí ya me cogieron lento. Creo que es. Sí, porque yo no, pero no puedo decir eso, espérate. Puedes decir lo que quieras, lo que tú quieras. Coño.
SPEAKER_03Para nosotros es algo totalmente diferente, Laura.
SPEAKER_00Es como expresión de coño.
SPEAKER_03Bueno, puede tener demasiados significados.
SPEAKER_00Sí.
SPEAKER_03Buenas o manas.
SPEAKER_00Me gusta. Si pudieras eliminar una palabra o expresión del vocabulario cubano para siempre, ¿cuál sería?
SPEAKER_03Tan difícil la pregunta, ¿vieron? No es tan rápido. No, no, no. Empecé bien, pero me fui. Creo que la que eliminaría sería. Bueno, voy a decir una que no me gusta. No me gusta. No me gusta la palabra pestífero. Suena muy feo. Y es una gente que quiere comer mucho, que come mucho, es un pestífero. Pero suena tan fea.
SPEAKER_01No, suena como algo distinto. A ver, para terminar, inventa ahora un nombre cubano basado en una palabra inglés. Lo primero que te venga a la mente.
SPEAKER_03Que te voy a decir una que ya sé. Creo que ya tienen todas las frases hechas. Pero, creo que ya tienen todas las frases hechas, pero tenía una amiga que se llama My Baby. Te lo juro. Te lo juro. Se llamaba así, My Baby. Es mi prima. Pero era tag era M A I B E I B I. Era tal cual en España. My baby.
SPEAKER_04Está perfecto. I love it. Laura, por allá en España hay my baby. No para nada. Creatividad. Alright. Eso fue nuestro rapid fire, que no fue tan rápido. Es que nunca es tan rápido. Pero y ahora llegamos a el let it los. So yo sé, Alejandro, tienes un let it lose preparado. Yo solamente quiero, yo voy a decir mi let it los que es el let it lose mío. Es uh un agradecimiento a ti, Alejandro. Porque cuando nosotros empezamos esto, el Derecho al principio del año, uh, tú fuiste uno de los primeritos que nos contactaron y dijiste cuenta conmigo cualquier cosa. Y eso para mí fue nosotros como fans, porque nosotros somos fans desde hace mucho tiempo. And when vimos ese mensaje, de verdad que fue algo tan special. Sorprendente. Muchas gracias por eso.
SPEAKER_03Gracias a ustedes for celebrar the glory and the culture.
SPEAKER_01Alright. Sort of a little bit.
SPEAKER_03I think I've heard a little bit of my speech, I sort of happened the same, but I was here a speech presidential. It's a feeling to the people that take vice culture, to be vice traditions, not enough to learn in Spanish, don't you know Cuba, don't you know what part of Cuba we are, not, those are not La Habana, nor the Occidental. Every part of Cuba has an essence, and to bring our music, and we differentiate what is a cultural and reality, and to bring it back, music, art, that we are, that's what we appear. Of all the world, and there are people approximately 11 million, 2 or 3 million with Urban. But we have a very big in a world of cultural world, so it's much more especially. Don't have a really mango. It's very diverse explain. But use expressions, use our culture, and it's nice to know what Gloria Stefan, who is Dulce Maria Loina, who is Wilfred Olan. It's really nice to know and present the people. And the culture and what we are to know. We are a population that is a culture that is dispersed by the world. There are Uans in Madrid, Uans in New York, Uans in Rio de Janeiro. For the journal and promoting and know that the people know what we are in reality and what we are in reality and our values.
SPEAKER_01Alejandro, we've heard both of that that Gloria and Emilio are referring to cultural represents for us, but I think I think that the train and the effort that is converting in one cultural for most of us, and wow, Marisa.
SPEAKER_04Much of the world.
SPEAKER_00I encourage connected and being the mature that is for the life that you have and all that to the world. Not also cubano, but I think hispanablants in general.
SPEAKER_01Muchas gracias de novo a Alejandro Bujan for us. Commentanos in Spotify, signos in the redes sociales, mandanos un email at let it losepod at gmail.com and nosemos the project. Muchas gracias.
SPEAKER_04Hasta luego.
SPEAKER_00Hasta pronto. Bye.