Felicia Garza (born September 7, 1941, in San Antonio, Texas as Felipe Gil Jr.)[1] is a Mexican-American songwriter, musician, singer and actress.
[1] Garza has declared that, in New York, she had a difficult relationship with her father, who was usually away due to his tours and his lifestyle as a famous singer.
[1] As a kid, Garza dreamed about building spaceships in the future, and she read a book written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
During that era, she played on an American Football team, hoping that experience would shape her inner-self into the man that she thought those around her wanted her to be; but she kept personally suffering.
[4] In 1967, she joined a musical comedy television show named Cómicos y Canciones, alongside others such as Capulina and Chespirito.
[4] She has won the prestigious Festival OTI three times as a composer: in 1973 for her composition "La Cancion del Hombre" ("Man's Song") sung by Gualberto Castro, in 1975 with "La Felicidad" ("Happiness") and in 1981 with "Lo Que Paso, Paso", sung at that festival by singer Yoshio.
In 1975 also, she won the Puerto Rico International Voice and Song Festival (Festival Internacional de la Voz y la Cancion de Puerto Rico) with her composition "El Rio" ("The River") sung by Manoella Torres.
"i haven't used anything except hormonal replacement therapy, I'm not going to change entirely and become a transsexual, which is different from transgender; I am a man and a woman at the same time", she declared to the press.
[9] In 2021, she declared on a television show named "Sale el Sol" that she had suffered thrombophlebitis on the inner part of her left leg, which according to her, was due to her hormonal treatments.