Raíces Songwriting Credits by Gloria Estefan

Authorship on this record runs the opposite way from a normal Gloria Estefan album. Emilio Estefan Jr. is credited on 11 of the 13 songs and writes four of them alone, while Gloria appears on only four: 'La Vecina (No Sé Na'),' the lullaby 'Mi Niño Bello (Para Sasha),' its English counterpart 'My Beautiful Boy (For Sasha),' and closer 'How Will You Be Remembered,' where her credit is an English adaptation rather than an original lyric. She was writing the Broadway musical Basura with her daughter Emily when Emilio brought her the title song, so the album assembled itself around his catalog. Two of the thirteen are not new songs. 'Cuando el Tiempo Nos Castiga' was written by Emilio with Peruvian songwriter Gian Marco Zignago and first recorded by Jon Secada in 2001, and 'How Will You Be Remembered' is that same composition rewritten in English by Gloria, which is why both carry Emilio and Zignago as composers and neither is her music. The widest credit is 'Te Juro' with ten writers, six of them from the Mora Arriaga family, plus the Gaitanes brothers Alberto and Ricardo Gaitán and Bruno Linares.