Professional Career
At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2000, Estefan received the award for Producer of the Year for his work on the albums Ciego de Amor by Charlie Zaa, El Amor de Mi Tierra by Carlos Vives and the song "Da la Vuelta" by Marc Anthony. During 2010, Estefan gathered dozens of Latino entertainers to record Michael Jackson's "We Are The World" in Spanish. The Spanish version, already written by Estefan and approved by Quincy Jones, became "Somos El Mundo". It premiered during El Show de Cristina on March 1, 2010 and all the funds went to the Haiti relief.
Estefan presented the book The Exile Experience: A Journey to Freedom in collaboration with internationally well-known Cuban writers: award winning poet and writer Carlos Pintado, Mirta Ojito, Carlos Eire and journalist Carlos Alberto Montaner. Estefan also sought personal testimonials of successful people from different generations of exiles, like the Mas Canosa family, television personality Cristina Saralegui, medical entrepreneur Benjamin Leon Jr., and Perry Ellis International chairman and CEO George Feldenkreis. The Exile Experience: Journey to Freedom is published in three separate editions – each tailor-made for those who arrived through Operation Pedro Pan, the Freedom Flights and the Mariel boatlift. Each edition features the names of every Cuban who arrived in one of the three exoduses, more than 400,000 names between the three editions.
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