Gloria Estefan - Heaven's What I Feel (Spanish Version)

What this video is

Released in April–June 1998 as the lead single from Gloria Estefan's eighth studio album Gloria!, this Spanish-version video ('Corazón Prohibido') was a deliberate bilingual market strategy targeting Spain and Latin America, where it topped charts. The single marked Estefan's commercially significant comeback after several years without a major hit, positioning her within the 1998 wave of disco-influenced dance-pop…

Why it matters

Represents the convergence of Miami Sound machine-era Latin pop legacy with late-1990s house and disco-revival aesthetics. As a bilingual companion video, it is a primary artifact of the Latin pop crossover infrastructure that preceded the 1999 'Latin explosion' (Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Marc…

The director

American director born in Denver, Colorado, raised in Virginia. Attended University of Maryland, College Park as a National Merit Scholar, initially studying anthropology before switching to film. Built career at BET rising to Executive Producer of Specials…