Felicia Garza

Felipe Bojalil Garza (born 7 September 1941, in San Antonio, Texas), better known as Felipe Gil, is a Mexican-American songwriter, musician, singer, and actor. Starting his show-business career in 1961, Gil participated in movies and had a successful singing career that took him to places as far from Mexico and the United States as Argentina, where he lived at for two years from 1964 to 1966. In 2025, Felicia Garza "died", as told to Argentinian journalist Maximiliano Lumbia, with Gil returning to his former male self.

Early life Gil was born as Felipe Bojalil Garza in San Antonio, Texas, the son of singer Felipe Gil (Felipe Bojalil Gil) and of bolero singer Eva Garza, and nephew of musicians Alfredo "El güero" Gil, and Carlos and Pablo Martinez Gil . When his mother was pregnant with him, she moved to San Antonio, Texas from New York City, so she could give birth to her child there, returning to New York when he was six months old. hoping that the experience would shape his inner-self into the man that he thought those around him wanted him to be; but he kept suffering. Gil was known artistically as Fabricio from 1961 to 1967, when he began performing as Felipe Gil. He released albums from 1967 to 2009 using the name Felipe Gil. He released, according to Discogs.com, 12 albums and singles, including two singles for Capitol Records, (1969's "Que Te Pasa, Vida Mia?" and 1971's "Quiero Ser", not to be confused with Menudo's 1981 album and song of the same name).

During this time, he reached teen idol status in Mexico, additionally launching an acting career. The movies he starred in were named "Buenos Dias, Acapulco" ("Good Morning, Acapulco") and "Baila, Mi Amor" ("Dance, my Love"). His fame reached Argentina, where he moved to, living there from 1964 to 1966, and hosting a television show named "La Hora Ye Ye" ("The Ye Ye Hour").

His family had a hard time accepting his new identity; his nephew Marcos Valdés (son of comedian Manuel Valdés and of Gil's sister Corina) took on social media to declare his disapproval of his uncle's transgenderism by declaring that "I keep seeing my uncle as my uncle. Do his daughters see him as their father or their mother? (Do I) see him as an uncle or aunt? He is my uncle, I love and admire him. I adore and respect him. Many say he looks better as a woman than he did as a man. (I hope everything) goes well for my uncle".

On August 26, 2022, her daughter Dulce Maria Gil died at the age of 53 of multiple sclerosis.

On March 26, 2025, it was revealed that Felicia Garza, Gil's female identity, had "died", as Gil told Argentinian journalist Maxiliano Lumbia during a phone call. Lumbia declared "We do not know why, but Felicia Garza somehow died, as did Felipe Gil at some point. Now, simbolically, Felicia Garza died to give a fresh start to Felipe Gil. I called her and she told me: 'I'm retiring from the entertainment world, I am not planning on appearing again', I told her: 'But why, Felicia?', and she told me: 'Don't call me Felicia, I am Felipe'. It was then that I noticed that Felicia had disappeared."

Personal life Having been twice married, as Felicia, he considered himself a transbian. He had declared he hoped to find the love of a woman again in his life. of whom, initially, only Dulce Maria accepted her transgenderness.