Live For Loving You is performed by Gloria Estefan live in Rotterdam concert on her 1991 European Tour. The upbeat single from her 1991 third solo album In The Light is Gloria's comeback from a long and painful broken back recovery sustained in a bus crash the year before. The song is a glowing testament to her happy marriage with Emilio Estefan Jr. But while Gloria dedicated the track to her husband, Live For Loving You was actually written by Emilio with gifted songwriter Diane Warren (who also wrote Gloria's Grammy Award-nominated "Reach").

The single peaked at #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart, #9 on the dance chart, and #22 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

In 2007, Gloria updated the track as a Samba-inspired iTunes Original to reflect how it has grown and changed during live performances over the years. She explained: "'Live for Loving You' is a kind of song that really can live in many different genres. And, of course, when you do your live performances the first time that you perform a song you want to stay true to the record: because that's what people want to hear, they want to hear the hit. But then after you have done it fifty thousand times and through many, many different tours, you start experimenting and doing stuff to surprise people. So, the cut that we are doing here for the 'iTunes Original' is something that we love to do - because we just took it and really broke it down to a Samba. You know, the Brazilians have an amazing edge - percussively, I think - they have amazing rhythms. And this song really fit that rhythm very nicely. So, we wanted to do it acoustically and really cool - and like we've done many times on tour. Just break it down to just acoustic, no synths and things of that nature: just make it organic. And I love that song for that reason: because you could perform it with just a couple of bongos and some vocals if you had to. And it would still work." Source: Songfacts #GloriaEstefan

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