Elsa Garcia

Long-time Tejano singer Elsa Garcia is also a The Tejano Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award winner for her years of dedication to Tejano music. She is also known as the first female producer in the genre of Tejano music and was the first Hispanic to have a Barbie doll made in her likeness in 1996. Garcia, immigrated to Houston, Texas from Monterrey, Mexico at 2 years old. She was pretty much destined for a life in music, as her mother, Hermelinda Escamilla, was a famous Mexican singer in the 1940s and ‘50s, known as “Linda la Norteña.”