The photograph was taken during the release of the book “Celia: My Life” (“Celia: Mi Vida”), at the Books & Books store in Coral Gables, Florida, on July 21, 2004. 

And that for the very first time and in her own words, the legendary Cuban-born singer Celia Cruz who rose to fame in the city of Havana, Cuba, during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname “La Guarachera de Cuba” (“The Guarachera of Cuba”).