Lilian Annette Garcia was born on August 19,1966 and is a Spanish-American ring announcer, singer and podcaster best known for her time with WWE.
60 Facts About Lilian Garcia
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Lilian Garcia is currently announcing for the Professional Fighters League.
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Lilian Garcia spent the first eight years of her life in Spain due to her Puerto Rican father's employment with the American Embassy, and was educated on an American military base, leading her to describe herself as a "military brat".
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Lilian Garcia was a top-ten finalist in the Miss South Carolina beauty pageant.
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Lilian Garcia was one-half of a popular morning show on radio station WYYS,"YES 97" in Columbia, South Carolina, with Chuck Finley in the early '90s and later had her own drive time show.
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Lilian Garcia was a VJ in Atlanta, Georgia for WTLK-TV.
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Lilian Garcia served as karaoke host at the Nitelites nightclub in the Embassy Suites Hotel in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Lilian Garcia began singing when she was a child in Madrid, Spain.
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Lilian Garcia participated in singing contests with her sister starting when she was five years old.
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Lilian Garcia appeared in the 1990 film Modern Love as a singer.
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Lilian Garcia sang "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania 2000, WrestleMania 21 and WrestleMania XXVIII, joining a list of recording artists that includes Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Reba McEntire, Gladys Knight and Willie Nelson.
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Lilian Garcia now holds the record for most musical performances at WrestleMania with three.
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Lilian Garcia performed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Dancing with the Stars and as an opening act for James Brown.
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Lilian Garcia recorded Torrie Wilson's entrance theme, "Need A Little Time", for WWE Anthology, a compilation album WWE released in November 2002.
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Lilian Garcia co-wrote "You Just Don't Know Me At All" with producers Doug Kistner and Anthony Krizan, which WWE released in January 2004 on the WWE Originals album and became her entrance theme.
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Lilian Garcia began work on a solo album in 2005 with Grammy award-winning record producers George Noriega and Tim Mitchell, who worked with multi-platinum artists such as Shakira, Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez.
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Lilian Garcia co-wrote 11 songs on the album, including three with Jon Secada, who she duets with on "Adonde".
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Lilian Garcia reunited with Noriega and Mitchell to record the first song in Miami, Florida in February 2011.
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Lilian Garcia released a music video for the track in March 2012.
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Lilian Garcia appeared at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on February 13,2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
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On May 27,2014, Lilian Garcia announced that she and her band, The Fuse, would be performing at Club Madrid in the Sunset Station Casino in Henderson, Nevada, near Las Vegas.
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Lilian Garcia performed her first show on June 14,2014.
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Lilian Garcia was hired by the World Wrestling Federation as a ring announcer in 1999.
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Lilian Garcia made her debut on the August 23,1999, episode of Raw is War in Ames, Iowa.
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Lilian Garcia introduced Miss Kitty for a Women's Championship chocolate pudding pool match.
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Lilian Garcia announced the winner as "Miss Kitty", which infuriated The Kat, who threw Lilian Garcia into the pool of pudding.
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Lilian Garcia sang the national anthem of the United States of America for the first time on February 11,2000, at a house show in Denver, Colorado.
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Lilian Garcia's first televised performance aired on April 2,2000, where she opened WrestleMania 2000 in Anaheim, California.
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In June 2005, Lilian Garcia began an on-screen romance with wrestler Viscera.
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Lilian Garcia took part in her first major Diva publication in 2005 with the release of the Divas 2005 swimsuit magazine and related DVD Viva Las Divas of the WWE.
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The storyline ended on the July 10,2006, episode of Raw, when Viscera accidentally performed a Samoan drop on Lilian Garcia while confronting Haas.
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Lilian Garcia was removed from television for several weeks in order to sell the Samoan drop.
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Lilian Garcia took part in her second major Diva publication in 2007 with the release of WWE Divas Do San Antonio, in honor of the WWE being in San Antonio for the Royal Rumble.
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Lilian Garcia returned to announcing on the July 2,2007, episode of Raw after taking time off to recover from a skiing injury in which she tore the ACL in her right knee.
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Lilian Garcia was not fully recovered as was evident from her only announcing the first two matches from the ring and the rest from the floor.
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Lilian Garcia then started a feud with Jillian Hall, who claimed to be a better singer than Lilian Garcia.
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Lilian Garcia then made an emotional speech in the ring, thanking the fans and all of her colleagues.
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Lilian Garcia made a special appearance before the Madison Square Garden audience on November 16,2009, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to the evening's Raw telecast.
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Lilian Garcia filled in for Raw ring announcer Justin Roberts on April 19,2010, due to being stranded in Europe with other WWE Superstars and crew as a result of the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption.
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Lilian Garcia's appearance caused a surge in online searches, resulting in the term "Lilian Garcia" becoming the eighth most searched-for term on Google that evening and into the next day.
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On December 5,2011, WWE announced that Lilian Garcia would be returning to ring announcing full-time, appearing on SmackDown.
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Lilian Garcia served as the ring announcer for Main Event and pay-per-views.
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On October 20,2014, after Justin Roberts was released from WWE, Lilian Garcia returned as the full-time ring announcer for Raw.
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Lilian Garcia made a one-night return on December 14,2016, at WWE Tribute to the Troops where she sang the American national anthem.
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Lilian Garcia made another special appearance before the Talking Stick Resort Arena audience in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 4,2017, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to the evening's SmackDown Live telecast.
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Lilian Garcia was the ring announcer for the finals of the Mae Young Classic on September 12,2017.
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On January 22,2018, in the Raw 25 Years special episode, Lilian Garcia was honored as part of a segment involving women considered legends that contributed to the company's success, including Bella Twins, Maryse, Kelly Kelly, Torrie Wilson, Michelle McCool, Terri Runnels, Maria Kanellis and the Hall of Famers Jacqueline and Trish Stratus.
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Lilian Garcia announced the first-ever WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal in WrestleMania 34's pre-show on April 8,2018.
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Around the end of May 2019, Lilian Garcia announced on her Chasing Glory podcast that she had joined the mixed martial arts organization, the Professional Fighters League, as a ring announcer.
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On March 31,2017, Lilian Garcia appeared on CBS daytime game show The Price Is Right as a contestant during the show's College Rivals special representing her alma mater University of South Carolina.
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Lilian Garcia won a trip to London along with some fashion accessories.
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Lilian Garcia was previously married for thirteen years, but had the marriage annulled by the Catholic Church.
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Lilian Garcia married her second husband, Christopher Jozeph, on September 28,2009.
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Lilian Garcia underwent surgery on her knee on April 5,2007, in New York City under Armin Tehrany.
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On November 6,2009, Lilian Garcia almost got robbed during the New York Yankees' 2009 World Series ticker-tape parade.
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Lilian Garcia said that a "punk kid" came up to her and tried to steal her phone.
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When Lilian Garcia wouldn't relinquish the phone, the assailant threw her to the ground and ran away.
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On October 26,2012, Lilian Garcia was struck by a car in Los Angeles, causing multiple contusions and lacerations on the left side of her body.
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Lilian Garcia was released from the hospital two days later.
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Lilian Garcia is close friends with former WWE wrestler Trish Stratus.