Billboard
By Leila Cobo
September 10, 2015
Grammy-winning
producer Emilio Estefan has enlisted an all-star small army of famous
friends -- including Shakira, Carlos Santana, Thalia, Pepe Aguilar and
his wife, singer
Gloria Estefan -- to combat the spate of anti-Mexican rhetoric that
Donald Trump sparked earlier this summer.
Estefan,
62, tells Billboard exclusively that, after listening to a TV talking
head make false and vindictive anti-Latin statements on TV, he has
rounded up dozens of
Latin celebrities to record “We’re All Mexican,” which he describes as a
musical “celebration of Hispanics and our accomplishments.” The track,
set to be released later in September, will also include reggaeton
singer Wisin, Wyclef Jean, radio personality
Enrique Santos and famed Spanish-American chef José Andrés, most of
whom will be rapping on the record.
"There’s
a message being sent out to the world where people are giving opinions
that are plain wrong," says the Cuban-American Estefan, who has won 19
Grammy awards. "We
need to lift up our pride and show the world what we’re doing."
Although
issues of immigration and citizenship have long been lightning-rod
topics of discussion among cable-news pundits, the public debate -- on
the airwaves and in
the streets -- has grown more brutish in the aftermath of comments made
by Trump when he announced his presidential run in June. "When Mexico
sends its people, they’re not sending their best," Trump told an
applauding crowd at the time. "They’re sending people
that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems [to]
us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And
some, I assume, are good people."
Estefan,
who says he's known Trump "for many, many years," insists that "We're
All Mexican" "is not so much an answer to the real-estate developer
turned Republican candidate
as it is an answer to the sentiment that we’ve progressed [as
Hispanics] and we need to let people know that." And with this song, he
adds, "I want to send a message that represents unity.”
“Trump
doesn’t represent anything to me," Estefan tells Billboard. "Everyone
has their opinion, and he can have whatever opinion he wants, as long as
he doesn't humiliate
my people."
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