Gloria & Emilio Estefan Received Songwriters Hall Of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award.

On Thursday, June 14th at the New York Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Gloria and Emilio Estefan joined many of music’s most respected and revered performers and songwriters when the National Academy of Popular Music inducts them into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame is the organization dedicated to recognizing the work and lives of those composers and lyricists who create popular music around the world. The Academy bestowed four-time GRAMMY winning singer/songwriter/actress Gloria Estefan and her husband nine-time GRAMMY winning music producer/songwriter/director Emilio Estefan, Jr. with the most prestigious Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award. The Estefans are the first two Hispanics in music history to receive such an honor. Instituted by the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980, past recipients of the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award include Tony Bennett, Willie Nelson, Quincy Jones, Dick Clark, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme, B.B. King, Berry Gordy, Kenny Rogers, and most recently in 2000 Neil Diamond.

In 1996, the Academy of Popular Music first inducted Gloria Estefan into its Hall of Fame when it presented her with the coveted Hitmaker Award. Estefan shares this earlier distinction with Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton, Johnny Mathis, and Barry Manilow, among others.

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