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If Lilian Garcia is announcing your name, you know you have made it to the big leagues of professional wrestling. Her heavenly vocal cords have accompanied WWE Superstars to the squared circle since 1999. She has explained match stipulations, introduced new title holders and welcomed fans to the arena more times than she can remember.

In addition to ring announcing for WWE, Lilian is an accomplished vocalist. While serving as the ring announcer for Monday Night Raw from 2000 through 2009, the beautiful Diva showed off her talents with an emotional and heartfelt rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner prior to each show. She has also opened up for many professional sports teams, including the National Football League’s New York Jets, Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs, and the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. The popularity of her amazing voice ultimately led to the production of her ¡Quiero Vivir!, which was released on October 9, 2007 via Universal Music Latino.

Her most revered memories, though, are of singing America the Beautiful at WrestleMania on two occasions. She belted out an emotional rendition on the first SmackDown after the September 11 attacks. Lilian’s beautiful performance of the United States national anthem helped WWE to rally suffering citizens. She always empties her heart into her singing, but there was something extra special in her voice on the memorable night in Houston, Texas.

Being as beautiful as Lilian is, it was only a matter of time before a WWE Superstar made a pass at her. In May 2005, the inevitable occurred when the mighty Viscera proclaimed his love for the sexy ring announcer. On the surface, Garcia and the wrestler formerly known as Mabel didn’t look like the prototypical couple; but inside, they shared a deep connection. Or so Lilian thought. The following month, a smitten Lilian proposed marriage to her man during WWE’s Vengeance pay-per-view event. Unfortunately for Lilian, she was ultimately heartbroken when he chose to be with The Godfather’s “Hos” rather than marry her.

Following a remarkable 10-year career with WWE, Lilian emotionally bid farewell to fans on the September 21, 2009 episode of Monday Night Raw. Thankfully, this turned out to be a two-year sabbatical and her angelic voice returned to WWE airwaves on SmackDown and once again, Raw.

Lilian García began her career in WWE in 1999 — the sports-entertainment organization was then known as the World Wrestling Federation, or WWF — when she was hired for the role of a ring announcer. She made her first appearance on the August 23, 1999 episode of Raw Is War from Ames, Iowa.

Garcia was involved in her first angle on the September 13, 1999 edition of Raw Is War as an irate Jeff Jarrett applied a Figure-Four Leglock to the blonde beauty for announcing that he lost to Luna Vachon via disqualification. The humiliation would continue on the December 13, 1999 edition of Raw Is War. After introducing Miss Kitty for a WWF Women’s Championship Match in a pool of chocolate pudding, the titlist snatched the microphone from Garcia to tell her that she was now known as The Kat. Moments after the contest began, X-Pac showed up in a diving suit complete with flippers, a snorkel and goggles. While the D-Generation X member was adjusting his goggles, Tori jumped on his back causing both of them to fall into the pool. With X-Pac landing on top of Tori, this allowed Miss Kitty to score an easy pinfall victory. Garcia announced the winner as Miss Kitty, infuriating the WWF Women’s Champion. In response, The Kat shoved Garcia into the pool of chocolate pudding. The lovely ring announcer was not pleased.

While high school classmates and teachers of Garcia knew she could sing, it wasn’t until Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson found out about her amazing talent that her singing career began to blossom.

“The Rock likes to sing, too, and he found out I could sing,” Garcia revealed in an interview with the Miami Herald in 2011.

“I was talking to him one day, and the national anthem came up as a subject. I said, ‘Yeah, I sang the national anthem at my high school graduation.’ There was 600 people in the auditorium. I was in drama in high school, and I always sang in high school. So people there knew me as a singer.

“So he goes, ‘Wow. We actually play the national anthem [at house shows]; it’s always an instrumental [recording] that plays, before we go out.’ He goes, ‘I’m going to talk to the agent, and we should get you to sing the national anthem.’

“It was February 11, 2000, and I was doing my first live event [house show] because I had only done Raw, and we were in Denver. Rock mentioned it to one of the agents, and they had me sing it there that night. It went over so well that the agent had me do it that whole weekend — Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

“By Monday morning, Vince McMahon heard about it, and he mentioned it at the meeting. He said, ‘So I hear that someone took the house down and can sing. I’ve got to see it for myself. So I want you to sing it tonight.’ It was in San Jose for Raw on February 14 on Valentine’s Day 2000, and I sang it ever since.”