[17][18] The singer discovered the song when she attended a gay nightclub in Rio de Janeiro with her producer Claudio Kleiman, where she saw a drag queen performing to Gloria Gaynor's version.

[20][21] Shams was one of the main venues of new wave of musical acts that performed in a circuit of small bars and pubs centered in Buenos Aires.

[24][25] Mihanovich already had another gay anthem in her repertoire, her 1981 breakthrough single "Puerto Pollensa", a love song between women that continues to be celebrated by the local lesbian community to this day.

[26][27] Mihanovich was a lesbian, although not openly, a topic that caused much speculation in the media and increased when she formed a musical duo with her partner Celeste Carballo in the late 1980s.

A pyrotechnic display took place as the entire cast flooded the stadium to form the three agitos of the Paralympic logo and the performers and the audience joined in the song using sign-language.