Marilina Ross began her career as an actress in the 1960s and by 1975 was at her peak of popularity, thanks to her roles in Lautaro Murúa's acclaimed film La Raulito and the Alberto Migré-penned telenovela Piel naranja.
The year before, she had made her debut as a recording artist with the album Estados de ánimo, fulfilling the "dream of her life".
In 1976, a coup d'état installed the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina, inaugurating a period of  state terrorism known as the Dirty War.
Due to her Peronist activism, Ross received death threats and was prohibited from continuing to work, so she had to leave the country at the height of her career.
She went into exile in Spain, where she had several job offers due to the box office success of La Raulito.
The estrangement from her loved ones and her country was very distressing for Ross, who defined the time in exile as the worst stage of her life.

In July 1980, Ross' friend and fellow actor Luis Politti died, who was also exiled in Madrid.
According to her, he died of sadness, and she felt that she would be the next to die if she did not return to Argentina.
Ross composed "Puerto Pollensa" just before returning to her home country, referring to a love affair she had in the town of the same name located north of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands.
She recorded it with her guitar on a cassette tape and gave it to her significant other, inteded to be a personal gift and a "snapshot" of the moment they lived together.
The recipient of the song is rumored to be the feminist writer Susana Torres Molina.
Ross has said that the new love she found in Puerto Pollensa made her "climb out of the hole", and led her to return to Argentina, despite the fact that the dictatorship that had threatened her was still in power.

Ross and singer Sandra Mihanovich met in late 1980 through their mutual friend Alejandro Doria, who invited the latter to a party at Emilio Alfaro's house to welcome Ross back to the country.
Ross and Alfaro had divorced years ago, but they were still friends and he hosted her as soon as she returned from exile.
During the gathering, she performed the recently written "Puerto Pollensa" on her guitar for the guests and, upon hearing it, Mihanovich immediately asked her permission to record it.
Ross initially flatly refused, as it was an intimate gift she had never thought to release, but agreed when she insisted.
Ross told Página/12 in 2013: "The Sandra thing was key.
And I was not even completely convinced by the song.
I said: 'Oh, that chorus... how square it is!'
I changed it, put other music on it, turned it over.
It seemed to me that the music was very obvious, low quality, no?
In the end it beat me, I couldn't change it and I left it as it was."
Mihanovich was part of a new wave of musical acts that performed in a circuit of small bars centered in Buenos Aires, including Celeste Carballo, Horacio Fontova, Alejandro Lerner, La Torre and Rubén Rada.
Since 1980, Mihanovich was a house act in Shams, a tea house turned pub in Belgrano that became an iconic venue of the 1980s.
Marilina Ross began her career as an actress in the 1960s and by 1975 was at her peak of popularity, thanks to her roles in Lautaro Murúa's acclaimed film La Raulito and the Alberto Migré-penned telenovela Piel naranja. The year before, she had made her debut as a recording artist with the album Estados de ánimo, fulfilling the "dream of her life". In 1976, a coup d'état installed the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina, inaugurating a period of  state terrorism known as the Dirty War. Due to her Peronist activism, Ross received death threats and was prohibited from continuing to work, so she had to leave the country at the height of her career. She went into exile in Spain, where she had several job offers due to the box office success of La Raulito. The estrangement from her loved ones and her country was very distressing for Ross, who defined the time in exile as the worst stage of her life. 
In July 1980, Ross' friend and fellow actor Luis Politti died, who was also exiled in Madrid. According to her, he died of sadness, and she felt that she would be the next to die if she did not return to Argentina. Ross composed "Puerto Pollensa" just before returning to her home country, referring to a love affair she had in the town of the same name located north of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. She recorded it with her guitar on a cassette tape and gave it to her significant other, inteded to be a personal gift and a "snapshot" of the moment they lived together. The recipient of the song is rumored to be the feminist writer Susana Torres Molina. Ross has said that the new love she found in Puerto Pollensa made her "climb out of the hole", and led her to return to Argentina, despite the fact that the dictatorship that had threatened her was still in power.
Ross and singer Sandra Mihanovich met in late 1980 through their mutual friend Alejandro Doria, who invited the latter to a party at Emilio Alfaro's house to welcome Ross back to the country. Ross and Alfaro had divorced years ago, but they were still friends and he hosted her as soon as she returned from exile. During the gathering, she performed the recently written "Puerto Pollensa" on her guitar for the guests and, upon hearing it, Mihanovich immediately asked her permission to record it. Ross initially flatly refused, as it was an intimate gift she had never thought to release, but agreed when she insisted. Ross told Página/12 in 2013: "The Sandra thing was key. And I was not even completely convinced by the song. I said: 'Oh, that chorus... how square it is!' I changed it, put other music on it, turned it over. It seemed to me that the music was very obvious, low quality, no? In the end it beat me, I couldn't change it and I left it as it was." Mihanovich was part of a new wave of musical acts that performed in a circuit of small bars centered in Buenos Aires, including Celeste Carballo, Horacio Fontova, Alejandro Lerner, La Torre and Rubén Rada. Since 1980, Mihanovich was a house act in Shams, a tea house turned pub in Belgrano that became an iconic venue of the 1980s.
Puerto Pollensa (song)