Canter Bridge

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One wonders how a project like this gets started.

Were Gloria and Emilio lounging around the fireplace one night when …

Gloria: ¿Amor?

Emilio: Yes, mi Gloria?

Gloria: I’ve been thinking. I think we need to do a dance album.

Emilio: Hmm … We’ve never done anything like that, mi vida.

Gloria: I know. But I think I have a dance album in me.

Emilio: I see, mi estrella. Let me make some phone calls.

Amazingly, it works. Against all odds, one might add.

Gloria thumps through this pulse-rattling, no-breathers-allowed collection of fifteen dance tunes as though her middle name were Janet Jackson. Amazingly, there’s not a loser among them. She even manages to get enough Latin rhythm and language into the mix to make it sound like authentic Gloria.

All of which reminds one that she was someone’s first pick for the musical ‘Evita’, giving place to Madonna in the end. And makes one wonder whether there’s anything Gloria cannot, would not do with the right motivation and Emilio’s quality production to make sure it flies high.

Hmm …