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Unwrapped | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gloria Estefan
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 138998
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.5
MPN: 86790
UPC: 696998679023
EAN: 0696998679023
ASIN: B0000C52JC
Release Date: September 23, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | A Little Push | | • | Te Amare | | • | Your Picture | | • | Wrapped | | • | Time Waits | | • | In the Meantime | | • | Dangerous Game | | • | Into You | | • | One Name | | • | I Will Always Need Your Love | | • | Say Goodbye | | • | I Wish You | | • | You | | • | Famous |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fabulous! July 6, 2007
Kathy H (St John, IN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great collection of songs by Gloria Estefan. The songs will help bring peace to a troubled soul.
Finally... the pinnacle of Gloria's career January 31, 2007
J. HARMON (Chester, Pennsylvania United States)
Never could it be a secret that Gloria Estefan has built an incredible career around popular music and love songs. Aside from a few wonderful tracks and a more introspective INTO THE LIGHT album, she has crafted hit after hit with up-tempo ballads and dance rhythms... until this amazing work of art.
While her muse may elude my perceptions, this album is (in my opinion) the pinnacle of her career. Never has she written with such introspection and insightfulness. Never has she dug down deep into her soul and penned songs of pain, love and life as she did on this fabulous release. This album is serene, sweet and sultry... with intelligence and sincerity throughout. This album just might push away some of the dyed in the wool Gloria Estefan fans, however for those with an ear for truly imaginative and ethereal adult contemporary music, this is the release for you. One need only listen to the heart ache and forgiveness within the song "I WISH YOU" to understand all that is beautiful and lovely about this album.
I only wish Gloria would release more works like UNWRAPPED... for truly she bares everything that is lovely within her... sincerely.
 Gloria settles down December 10, 2006
David A. Baer (Indianapolis, IN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Those of us who came of musical age with Gloria have always known she can sing to shape our souls, even without the full-throated power of other pop divas. Only recently have we become aware how well she can write.
Unwrapped is her best effort yet at song-writing, an album full of wistful, middle-aged, loverly and motherly reflections about the life that has brought her from unknown Gloria Milagrosa Fajardo to the status that the album's final song and final word tell us she never set out to be: 'famous'.
This is Gloria writ pensive. Not all of the lyrics flow, indeed some are heavy and even awkward, rescued mostly by well-strung music, Gloria's understated interpretive touch, and a very good band.
Yet Ms. Estefan blooms lyrically in moments, nowhere more eloquently than in the song that reverses the album's title. The upbeat 'Wrapped' begins with voices and strings alone except for the lightest touch from the bang-boys:
I keep every tear like an ocean
For every day that my fortune
Kept me from being with you
I cradle your faith that reveals me
Fills me with promise anew
Conceptually, Gloria has always sung of that conjunction of choice, faithfulness, and destiny that makes lives and, sometimes, unmakes them. It would be too much too demand a coherent weaving of passion's leaps and destiny's unbending path, for who of us experiences life coherently with two such forces in play?
Still, she has counsel for those immobilized by the dilemma. Hear the opening track:
You fear love that's real love
Expecting ideal love
It's hard to conceal love
Deny what you feel, love, you feel love
This, in song touched with an almost gnostic insight into the about-to-collapse surety of an intended lover:
I think it's only fair to bring to your attention
You're about to fall in love
Yes, you're gonna fall in love
The music throughout is principallly acoustic with nimble percussion, the ornamentation of an intruding violin. This is almost Gloria cum sonata rather than Gloria the stage spectacle.
Gloria sings to people whom she loves in album.
To her love:
A Little Push
Te Amare
Your Picture
Dangerous Game
Into You
I will Always Need Your Love
Say Goodbye
To a confused partner:
In the Meantime
To people tempted (like her?) to place career and frenzy ahead of love:
One Name
To someone who's hurt her deeply:
I Wish You
To her daughter:
You
To herself:
Famous
Unwrapped is Gloria announcing a pause to reflect in a dizzying and meteoric life and career. Vulnerabilities insinuate themselves from behind the 'pitiless light of the glare' (Famous).
There is pain here, at numerous points, but almost granite resolve to survive it and thrive beyond it. The singer's voice is almost preternatually firm--not an adjective often associated with the female voice or any voice--in the opening lines of 'In the Meantime':
Take a little breather
Figure out the reasons that you stopped believing
Save me your caresses
Go clear up the confusion that our face confesses
Travel around the sun
Yet, in spite of language that brushes up against ultimatum, there is hope and the promise to be there for her confused lover if destiny--there we go again--makes 'our paths cross down the line'.
If Gloria continues to mellow and settle in this way, her listeners can look forward to continued accompaniment as they walk their not unrelated paths.
Beautiful @}->--- July 20, 2006
Little Miss Cutey (Melbourne, Australia)
This cd is so underrated. It certainly isn't her biggest cd, but it's great and you should really listen to it. It's filled with stunning songs (majority written by her) and fantastic lyrics (In the book of my life, Till the day that it's through, You know most of the pages belong to you). She does a lot of colaborative writting with Jon Secada (another favourite of mine) to make fantastic songs.
For some reason, this wasn't as big as it should have been. There are some great songs that could have been big hits. I personally love A Little Push, Wrapped and Into You. I think this cd is amazing and I recommend it highly to all Gloria fans. It's one of her best cd's.
Wow - what an amazing album January 29, 2006
David Lee (Moorea, Tahiti, [and Alexandria, Corsica, Poconos, Tahoe, Victoria])
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
14 tracks (+ 4 tracks in Spanish) on the album, great from start to finish.
One of my favorite albums !!! Gloria has exceeded all my expectations.
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