Celia Fuentes is a musician born in Chile. After the bloody coup in 1973 that overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, her family immigrated to Canada. She lived several years in London, Ontario, before settling with her family in Montreal shortly after the 1980 referendum.

Her lyrics are influenced by these social-political experiences lived through several cultural and linguistic contexts. Celia began to compose after borrowing a guitar she found in her mother's closet. From the beginning, her strumming style was influenced by the rhythms of the Andes. Self-taught in the beginning, she met Leonardo de Luca, a pillar of the Montreal independent artist-entrepreneur scene, who became her teacher and mentor.