The photograph was taken during the presentation of the book “Celia: My Life,” 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 Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, and then to stardom in New York during the 1970s as a singer of salsa, earning the nicknames “La Guarachera de Cuba” and “The Queen of Salsa.”                                                     

Tells the author of the book Ana Cristina Reymundo, the story of her life, her joys, her sorrows and the difficulties she faced during her childhood and youth, before she became the most famous guaracha and salsa artist of all time.