Gloria Estefan defends decision to invite Obama for political fundraiser

Cuban singer Gloria Estefan has said that she took the right decision to invite US president Barack Obama for a fundraiser.

Gloria and her husband Emilio had invited Obama to their Miami beach home in Florida for a political fundraiser to help the Democratic Party, reports The Daily Express.

The Democratic National Committee event at the singer's house made the locals livid as they were supporting the rival party.

Now, the 52-year-old Grammy winner has said that she does not support any party and that she discussed issues relating to the Cuban community with the now president.

"We're still nonpartisan. I am not affiliated. The bottom line is that if the White House calls and says, 'We're coming to Miami', what more of an honour for a Cuban-American immigrant that came here when I was two years old, than to have the president of the United States in my home and to be able to speak to him about some of the things we have been doing?," Estefan said on Larry King Live.

"I was able to show him pictures of the march that we had, pictures of the Ladies in White in Cuba getting violently beaten by the police and thrown into a bus. I gave him a letter from a (Cuban) martyr of recent times and I was able to talk to him about that, give him letters from the mother of the dead dissident. We had a good talk. Then I introduced him. In my introduction, I said a lot of the things I wanted him to hear. He was standing right by me, as was everyone here at the party. So it was a wonderful night for us," she added.