Granda composed "El puente de los suspiros" in 1960 in homage to a famous wooden bridge over a ravine in the seaside Barranco District of Lima.

He claimed that it was he to whom Granda referred in the lyrics of the song that say "Es mi puente un poeta que me espera" ("my bridge is a poet who awaits me").

During this tour, she performed at times with singer-songwriter-guitarist Óscar Avilés, and the pair released an album, "Dialogando" (Iempsa, 1968), which included "La puente de suspiros".

For the album's recording of "El puente de los suspiros", she was accompanied by Óscar Avilés on guitar and by Chucho Ferrer on organ.

[12][13] The song is among Granda's most famous and has been covered by leading Latin American singers, including Argentina's Mercedes Sosa,[14] Mexico's Chavela Vargas,[15] and Peru's Eva Ayllón.