President Obama To Visit Gloria Estefan & Hubby At Their Miami Home

By Simone Hilliard

Cuban-born singer Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio will host President Barack Obama at their Miami Beach home April 15th for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser. The $30,400-a-couple cocktail reception is the Estefans' first political fundraiser.

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Though they've kept a low political profile, the Estefans are no strangers to the White House. In 2005, Gloria performed at the inaugural festivities for President George W. Bush. This followed Bush's 2002 appointment of Emilio to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts.

According to the Miami Herald, Emilio met with Obama at the White House last May. During that encounter, Emilio expressed his desire to have Obama over for dinner to talk about U.S.-Cuba relations.

In September, Obama appointed Emilio to a commission to study the feasibility of a National Museum of the American Latino, and Gloria Estefan — along with Marc Anthony, Jose Feliciano and others — performed at the White House in October as it celebrated Hispanic music.

The president quoted Gloria in his welcoming remarks, noting that in her words, "the most beautiful things in this country have the flavor of other places.''

Obama's reception in Florida may not be entirely celebratory. He's convened a conference on the Space Coast that day to defend his plans to cancel a NASA space exploration program — a decision that has prompted howls of protest from Florida's congressional delegation.

Obama will also attend a fundraiser at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami that same day. Tickets for that event start at $250 and $1,250.

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