 Cuban fans listen to her at home, but official Cuban radio and TV stations don't play her music. She was banned in Cuba since she left. She tried to go back in 1962 to bury her mother, but her entrance was rejected. After that, Celia decided never to go back to Cuba while the country wasn't free from the dictatorship. But that never happened. Guantanamo Bay was the closest to her hometown, Havana, she was ever able to get.