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Gloria Estefan - Mi tierra


Gloria Estefan (oorspronkelijke naam Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo) (Havana (Cuba), 1 september 1957) is een Amerikaanse zangeres van Cubaanse afkomst, die vooral in de jaren '80 en begin jaren '90 veel hits scoorde. Ze geldt als de meest succesvolle Latijns-Amerikaanse zangeres aller tijden en wordt door sommigen ook wel gezien als de Queen of Pop van de jaren '80.

Met meer dan 70 miljoen verkochte platen wereldwijd kan zij zich met de groten meten. Ook heeft ze vijf Grammy's gewonnen. Naast zangeres is Gloria Estefan actrice en componist.


Mi tierra

From my beautiful homeland
from my holy homeland
I hear the cry of the drums and the timbales partying
And a refrain is sung by a brother who lives far from his homeland
and the memories make him cry
the song that he sings springs from
his pain and his own tears
and we can hear him cry.

Your homeland hurts you
your homeland strikes your soul when you're gone
your homeland pushes you forth from its roots
your homeland sights when you're not there.

The land where you were born, you can't forget
because it holds you roots and everything you've left behind.

The refrains continue, as does the melancholy
and each night by the light of the moon
the country boy sings his song
And each street that leads to my village
has a cry, a lament
It has a nostalgia like its voice
And the song that keeps repeating
flows in my blood ever stronger
on its way to my heart.

It has a cry ...............my homeland
It has a lament ..........my homeland
I'll never forget her...........my homeland
I carry her in my emotions ,yes sir
my homeland
I hear her cry..................my homeland
She flows through my blood..............my homeland
I carry her inside me yes indeed
I sing of my homeland, beautiful and holy
I suffer the pain that's in het soul.

Altough I'm far away, I can feel her
And one day I 'll return...I know it

(Bron: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Estefan)