García won the 1968 Varna International Ballet Competition youth prize and earned a silver medal at the same event two years later.
[1] At the age of five,[2] she won the Best Children's Artist Award at the Supreme Court of Art contest, giving her access to interpreting Spanish dances on television and appearing on commercials.
[5] She went on to repeat this performance at The América Theatre the following year and then participated in the Spanish Dance Festival at the Cine-Teatro Fausto.
[5] On the morning of 29 January 2017, García died of lung cancer that she had been suffering from for four years at a hospital in the Spanish capital of Madrid.
[2] Roberto Méndez Martínez of Inter Press Service describes García's impact as "not only has gone down in the history of Cuban ballet but also in her non-written legend for the exceptional physical talent which she had the wisdom to restrain and channel to become a great artist and not a circus phenomenon"[3]