La Vida Es Un Carnaval was Celia Cruz's biggest international hit — a song about resilience, about refusing to be broken by loss or exile. She recorded it in Miami in 1998, by which point she had been living in the United States for 38 years without returning to Cuba. The song became an anthem: played at funerals, protests, quinceañeras, street parties. The chorus — life is a carnival, and it's more beautiful to live singing — is the distillation of everything Cruz had built her career around.
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