Summary

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Gloria Estefan was 16 months old when she and her mother fled to Miami following the Cuban Revolution.

Bob Marley fled Jamaica to Miami after being shot during political violence.

Former child soldier Emmanuel Jal fled Sudan in 1991.

Georg Solti fled his native Hungary in 1939 due to imminent German invasion.

When Mika was a year old his family was forced to leave war-torn Lebanon.

The London born singer and guitarist of Elastica, whose father was a Hungarian refugee.

Poet and hip hop artist K'naan fled civil war in Somalia in 1991.

M.I.A and her family were forced to flee the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in the 1980’s.

Wyclef fled Haiti along with his family when he was nine years old.