The Standards
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| Studio album by Gloria Estefan | ||||
| Released | September 10, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop, swing | |||
| Label | Crescent Moon, Sony Masterworks | |||
| Producer | Emilio Estefan | |||
| Gloria Estefan chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Miami Herald | Mixed |
| The Plain Dealer | A |
| Q News (Australian magazine) | Mixed |
| entertainmentfocus.com |
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The Standards is a studio album by Cuban-American recording artist Gloria Estefan. The singer's first English-language album since 2011's Miss Little Havana, and her twenty-seventh overall, it was released on September 10, 2013 on Sony Masterworks. The album features a selection of covers of traditional pop standards from the Great American Songbook.
The album was nominated in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for the 56th Grammy Awards.
Releasing a covers album before where Estefan included her favorite tunes from all time, 1994 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me was a commercial success which gave Gloria two big hits around the world, "Turn The Beat Around" and "Everlasting Love". However, a project was in the making since Estefan recorded in 1993 a duet with Frank Sinatra at his smash album Duets where Gloria changed her traditional dance-pop song for a more mature and soft sound in the cover of the ballad, "Come Rain Or Come Shine".
Estefan herself commented she grew up listening to songs of Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini and other famous crooners, including Latinos, the reason for why she was thrilled to release an album fill with traditional songs known from the great American songbook. Gloria cited many times in some interviews, that her favorite song from all time was Carlos Gardel's most famous song, "El Día Que Me Quieras", which was written in an English-language translation, to be released as the lead single from the album, changed later in favor of "How Long This Has Been Going On?". Estefan previously performed the song, with its original Spanish lyrics, as the closing number to her 2009 concert in Buenos Aires during the 90 Millas World Tour.
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