Gloria Estefan Album: “Into the Light”

Wow! This CD has some of the greatest songs I've ever heard! "Live For Loving You" is probably one of my favorite songs, and it is here on this CD. Very good music to dance to! "Mama Yo Can't Go" is also another good one. "Desde La Oscuridad" the Spanish version of "Coming Out of the Dark" is a very catchy tune. I was singing it for days! Get this CD!

This is the first album Gloria released following her tragic bus accident that almost left her paralyzed. Anytime you feel like your goals are out of reach and look impossible, listen to this album. The whole album is basically a testament to Gloria's road to recovery and never giving up on herself. The first single, "Coming Out of the Dark" is a brilliant way to open the album! The song tells the story of her rehabilitation and perseverance. Having the choir sing background vocals adds to the depth of the song's message. The inspirational songs don't end there. Take a listen to "Seal Our Fate", "What Goes Around", "Nayib's Song", "Sex in the 90's" and "Close My Eyes". The messages in these songs are self explanatory yet they also offer inspiration and positivity. I often listen to this album in the morning as I think of dragging myself into work or perhaps after a long, stressful day.

Gloria closes the album with "Desde La Oscuridad", the Spanish version of "Coming Out of the Dark"...a touching way to end the journey that you take with her. I still appreciate the personal messages blended with the latin-inflected pop on this album 15 years after its release.

I rank this CD as one of Gloria's best. I enjoy listening to the songs and there are few boring places that I want to skip over. Because it was produced the year following her bus accident, it was made during a time of crisis. That must be the main reason most of the songs show a more pensive and serious side to life, as compared to the songs on her earlier albums. The songs "Seal our Fate", "What Goes Around", and "Sex in the 90's" are examples of the subject of how people can get into trouble. In addition, "Coming out of the Dark", "Nayib's Song", "Close my Eyes" and "Mama Yo Can't Go" have references to depression and melancholy. These songs are refreshing to me because they convey a realistic approach to life that I and (certainly) many people can relate to. On the other hand, it has other songs that are more cheerful. To me, this album is also a good way to remember the atmosphere during the period of recovery after the bus accident.

Gloria Estefan's Into The Light cd is great to have,because i feel her pain when she got into that accident with her tour bus!!!!!! The album is also a fun too!!!!!!! GO OUT AND BUY THIS CD NOW!!!!!!!

The tunnel in question is the long rehab period Gloria went thru after her 1990 accident.

She took her time out, wrote a whole new album and it turned out to be one of her best works.

She is as mainstream as ever: SEAL OUR FATE brings a rock flavour to her work she never experienced before, CAN'T FORGET YOU is a great AC Top 40 ballad as much as the Diane Warren-penned HEART WITH YOUR NAME ON IT is a pop-oriented one.

Warren provides help also on the latin-influenced LIVE FOR LOVING YOU.

She also delivers a track called LANGUAGE OF LOVE that appears as a bonus track on the European release of the cd.

Dancefloor fans will be delighted with WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND and SEX IN THE '90'S.

COMING OUT OF THE DARK is definitely the strongest point of the whole album, being the most auto-biographical one, full of gospel reminescences.

Gloria proves more than just a latin artist, this album is the proof.