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"Don't Wanna Lose You" - Gloria Estefan
from the album Cuts Both Ways (1989)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day comes from Cuban-American pop/dance singer/songwriter Gloria Estefan, whose third English-only album with the Miami Sound Machine, Let It Loose, had granted her four top-10 pop hits with "1-2-3", "Can't Stay Away From You", "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You", and the #1 single "Anything For You". In 1989, with the upcoming release of Cuts Both Ways, Gloria took over as the sole billing on the cover, with the Miami Sound Machine relegated to a credit (and even then, only husband Emilio remained from the original incarnation). Continuing her success with ballads, the first release from the record was "Don't Wanna Lose You", written by Gloria and produced by Emilio with later-stage MSM musicians Clay Ostwald and Jorge Casas. With a soft-set video featuring just Gloria singing while a band of artistic dancers go at it in the desert, it was definitely a lock for the soccer-mom crowd...

"Don't Wanna Lose You" became Gloria's second #1 pop hit in September of 1989. The song also climbed to #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, while the Spanish-language version, "Si Voy A Perderte", topped the Latin Singles chart for five weeks. Internationally, the record reached the top ten in the UK (#6), Ireland (#5), Belgium (#4), Canada (#3), and the Netherlands (#5). It would also earn her a nomination for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal performance in 1990, which Bonnie Raitt ended up winning.

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Here's Gloria performing the song at the Grammy Awards in 1990...