This is a list of concert tours by Gloria Estefan, a Cuban-American pop singer.
Tour information
Since 1985, Estefan has embarked on six worldwide concert tours performing in several locations worldwide including the five continents. Estefan's first tour was with the Miami Sound Machine and was the tour for support of the album Primitive Love named "Primitive Love Tour"[1] in 1985. Her last tour in 2008, the "90 Millas World Tour," was made to promote the album 90 Millas.[1]
Among all the tours made and listed here the first two are with the Miami Sound Machine, in which Estefan was the lead vocalist, since their separation in 1989, Estefan credited alone and embarked in four tours, two of them, the "Into The Light" and "Evolution" are cataloged as world tours, and are the most successful on Estefan's career[1]
Gloria Estefan first tour with the Miami Sound Machine "Primitive Love Tour" was a tour only to the United States with a low budget and just performances of their album, since that tour all the other tours by Estefan had been praised and critically acclaimed, especially her 1996/1997 "Evolution World Tour" which was created with a very different concept and making it more a show than just a concert, it eventually became one of the fans favorites and was one of the most successful tour ever for Estefan.[1]
With the release of the 2007 Spanish-language album 90 Millas, Gloria Estefan did a tour of the European continent to promote the album. Gloria started the tour in August 2008 in Valencia, Spain,[2] and then went to London and also her first concert to a British audience since a decade. She also visited Belfast, Rotterdam and Tenerife. Estefan also performed at the Aruba Music Festival[3] on October 11
In April 2009, Gloria Estefan she started her first tour of Latin America. She performed in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and others Latin-American countries.[4] This was the second leg to her last tour promoting 90 Millas. Due to the success of the last performances of Estefan to Europe, she will return to a series of music festivals included as part of this tour in the summer season in 2009, including three more cities: Milan, Locarno and Liverpool.[5] She also added another three dates to the US, as part of a special concert with Carole King for a performance at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, the show being part of this tour is called "She Got's A Friend".[6]
Tours
Year
Title
Duration
Number of performances
Release format(s)
1985-1986
Primitive Love Tour
1985–1986 (U.S., Latin America, Japan)
?
Unreleased
This tour, also known as the "Conga Tour" was the first tour ever made by the Miami Sound Machine at the United States and Japan. It was a tour with a low-budget made only to promote the album sales of Primitive Love at these countries.[7]
1987-1988
Let It Loose World Tour
1987–1988 (U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, Japan)
?
VHS, Laserdisc&DVD
Miami Sound Machine's first world tour with a high profile and also with a higher budget than the past one, was made to promote the album Let It Loose, going to more cities at the United States and visiting more countries such those of the southeast of the Asian continent; it also visited for the very first time the country of Canada.[7] The October 1, 1988 concert at the Miami Arena was released on VHS. The setlist for the tour was:
1. Conga (Intro)
2. Hot Summer Nights
3. Bad Boy
4. Primitive Love
5. Surrender
6. Let It Loose
7. Baila Conmigo/A Toda Maquina/Dingui-Li-Bangui (Medley)
8. Falling in Love (Uh-Oh)
9. Words Get in the Way
10. No Sera Facil/Me Enamore/Renacer (Medley)
11. 1-2-3
12. Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
13. Conga
14. Betcha Say That
15. Anything For You
1989-1990
Get On Your Feet World Tour
1989–1990 (U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, Japan)
?
Unreleased
Gloria Estefan first solo tour, made to promote the album Cuts Both Ways, was set to be one of the biggest tours of the star, first planning 50 tour stops around the world,[8] but after the tragic accident that happened to Estefan which took her to the edge of death, the tour was canceled and only twenty-three stops happened, letting Australia and the rest of the United States with no shows given. The setlist for the tour was:
1. Intro/ Conga
2. 1-2-3
3. Ay, Ay, I
4. Here We Are
5. Can't Stay Away From You
6. Words Get In The Way
7. Surrender
8. Bad Boy
9. Nothin' New
10. Anything For You
11. Cuts Both Ways
12. Let It Loose
13. Dr. Beat
14. Don't Wanna Lose You
15. Say
16. Oye Mi Canto
17. Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
18. Get On Your Feet
19. Conga (Encore/reprise)
Gloria's first colossal world tour, with more than 100 stops,[9] with most of the stops getting sold out, it became Estefan's most successful tour to then and it also been the most successful tour ever for a Latin artist in the moment. It was Estefan's first world tour since the discontinued "Get On Your Feet World Tour" was canceled due to the near fatal accident. The VHS contains mostly footage from the concert in Rotterdam Ahoy, along with footage taken throughout the course of the tour. The setlist for the tour was:
1. Get On Your Feet
2. Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice)2
3. What Goes Around
4. Remember Me With Love
5. Here We Are
6. Live For Loving You
7. A Song For Gloria (By the background singers)
8. Sex in The 90's1
9. MSM Medley (Played at the Latin American shows)1
- Dingui-Li Bangui
- A Toda Maquina
- Baila Conmigo
10. Ballad Medley:
- Anything For You2
- Words Get in the Way2
- Can't Stay Away From You
- Renacer
- No Sera Facil
- Regresa a Mí
- Cuts Both Ways
- Can't Forget You 1
- Don't Wanna Lose You 2
11. Alma Llanera (Played at Select shows) 1
12. Dr. Beat 1
13. 1-2-3
14. Nayib's Song (I Am Here For You)
15. Close My Eyes
16. Mama Yo Can't Go 1
17. Seal Our Fate
18. Conga
19. Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
20. Coming Out of The Dark 2
1 Only performed in select shows
2Songs were performed in their Spanish versions in select shows
This tour became the most successful and most ambitious tour of Estefan, making stops in every continent of the world including the most important cities of each one. With it, Estefan visited South Africa and Hawaii for the first time. The tour was made to promote the album Destiny. With 108 stops with sold-out stages,[11] it was the most successful tour ever for a Latin artist, and it is also the most successful tour of Estefan to date. One of the concerts in the Miami Arena was filmed for an HBO broadcast and a subsequent VHS/DVD release. The setlist for the tour was:
1. Conga
2. Live For Loving You
3. Get On Your Feet
4. Anything For You
5. Don't Wanna Lose You
6. Destiny
7. Here We Are
8. Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
9. Oye Mi Canto
10. Steal Your Heart/No Pretendo
11. Along Came You (A Song For Emily)
12. Mi Tierra
13. Con Los Años Que Me Quedan
14. Montuno
15. Tradición
16. Everlasting Love
17. Ballad Medley
- Cuts Both Ways
- I See Your Smile
- Words Get in the Way
- Can't Stay Away From You
18. Always Tomorrow
19. Coming Out of The Dark
20. Abriendo Puertas
21. You'll Be Mine (Party Time)
22. Turn The Beat Around
23. Megamix
24. Higher
25. Tres Deseos
26. Reach / Puedas Llegar
In some shows, Gloria performed some of her hits in Spanish. The following songs were also performed in selected shows:
- I'm Not Giving You Up
- Show Me The Way Back To Your Heart
- Ayer
- Volver [12]
A tour made to promote the album Unwrapped, was Estefan's first tour since 1996, which followed special concert shows at Las Vegas "Caesars Palace" called "Live & Unwrapped," which was released on DVD. Not to be confused with the Las Vegas shows, the "Live & Re-Wrapped" Tour was never officially released on home video and the show and track listing were very different.
A tour created to promote Estefan's album 90 Millas, is the first tour made for a Spanish language album and is Estefan's first tour in Europe in twelve years. The tour began in Valencia on August 22, with other European performances taking place in Rotterdam, London, Belfast[2] Madrid, Zaragoza, and Barcelona. Estefan finished the tour with one single show in Latin America where she performed at the Aruba Music Festival on October 11, 2008.
A second leg was added to this tour in which Gloria went for the first time to some Latin-American countries, the tour went to Punta Del Este, Uruguay, Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires, Lima and Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Then, the tour added more dates to the schedule, and now three-dates are scheduled for the Memorial Day Weekend at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, as part of a special concert with Carole King named "She's Got A Friend".[6] Another three dates were added to some performances at Europe for some music festivals at: Milan, Locarno, Liverpool, Monte Carlo and Istanbul. And a free-performance at Guadalajara, Mexico for a music festival to promote tourism in Mexico after the Swine influenza.
