''Let It Loose'' is the tenth studio album by
Gloria Estefan and
Miami Sound Machine
Miami Sound Machine was an American band of Latin-influenced music that had featured the vocals of Cuban-born recording artist Gloria Estefan (née Fajardo). Established in 1975 by Emilio Estefan Jr., the band was originally known as the Miami ...
, released in
1987
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. It is the first studio album to feature a specific credit for Estefan, but is her 10th album overall including her work with Miami Sound Machine. Initially gaining little attention in Europe, the success of the single ''
Anything for You'' led to the album being re-released under that name, and with a different cover art, across Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand from October 1988 to early 1989. It became Miami Sound Machine's most commercially successful album, being certified triple-platinum by the
RIAA and peaking at number six on the
''Billboard'' 200.
Track listing
Personnel
*
Gloria Estefan – lead and backing vocals
*John De Faria – all guitars
*Clay Ostwald, Jim Trompeter – keyboards
*Jorge Casas,
Will Lee
William Lee (born William Lubovsky; August 6, 1908 – December 7, 1982) was an American actor who appeared in numerous television and film roles, but was best known for playing Mr. Hooper, the original store proprietor of the eponymous Hoope ...
– bass
*
Emilio Estefan
Emilio Estefan Gómez (born March 4, 1953) is a Cuban-born American musician and producer. Estefan has won 19 Grammy Awards. He first came to prominence as a member of the Miami Sound Machine. He is the husband of singer Gloria Estefan, father ...
, Rafael Padilla – percussion
*Enrique Berro "Kiki" Garcia – drums
*Randy Barlow, Teddy Mulett –
trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...
*
Clarence Clemons
Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr. (January 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011), also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death in 2011, he was the saxophonist for The E Street Band.
Clemons released several s ...
– sax solos on track 2
*
Ed Calle
Ed Calle (born ''Eduardo J. Calle'') is a musician from Miami, Florida. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
Calle plays the saxophones, flutes, clarinets, EWI, and keyboards, engineers projects, and performs vocals. He also composes and arrange ...
– saxophone
*
Paquito Hechavarría
Paquito Hechavarría (21 February 1939 – 27 September 2012) was a Cuban pianist. Hechavarría built his career in Cuba by playing in some of the most popular orchestras, including Conjunto Casino, Orquesta Riverside and Los Armónicos. However, ...
–
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
solos on tracks 5 & 7
Production
*Emilio Estefan – producer
*Lawrence Dermer – producer
*Rafael Vigil – producer
*Jorge Casa – producer (track 6)
*Clay Ostwald – producer (track 6)
*John Haag – engineer
*Teresa Verplanck – engineer
*Eric Schilling – mixing
Chart positions
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
''Let It Loose''
''Anything For You''
References
External links
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{{Authority control
1987 albums
Miami Sound Machine albums
Gloria Estefan albums
Albums produced by Emilio Estefan
Epic Records albums