The 32-year-old Grammy Award-winning musician was knocked to the bus’s floor, breaking his back and briefly paralyzing him.
Estefan was advised she may never be able to walk again, but with doctors’ support and her own determination, the “Conga” singer returned to the stage almost one year later. Since then, she has been an outspoken supporter of paralysis research, having contributed over $42 million to the field’s study of spinal cord injuries.
Estefan recalled hearing after the 1990 collision how serious her injuries were.
I was disabled from that accident, and they always have to give you the worst case scenario,” she stated on CBS Mornings. “I was put back together here in New York at the hospital for joint diseases.”
Since her father had used a wheelchair, Estefan claimed to have empathy for what “the families go through.” But one of her greatest worries was being confined to a wheelchair.
