[Dade]

Billy Garcia
36
New York, NY
Heavy Metal Guitarist

biography

Virgilio "Billy" Garcia was born in New York and moved to Miami when he was seven years old. He began studying karate, judo and wrestling at age 12. While lying sick in bed when he was 15, he heard the song "Juke Box Hero" on the radio and began to entertain the idea of becoming a rock and roll musician. He saved his lunch money and eventually bought his first electric guitar.

When he was 22 years old, Garcia sold most of his belongings and returned to New York to pursue a career in music. While playing in several local bands, Garcia was also pursuing a career in wrestling and, in 1997, won a silver medal at the Amateur Athletic Union Wrestling National Championships.

Garcia is currently a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter with the band Forsakken. He also continues to pursue professional wrestling under the name "Spanish Fly." He previously worked as a manager of a video store, a club bouncer and a music store sales representative. He attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He is a former U.S. Marine.

Garcia is trained in the martial arts. His hobbies include playing guitar, wrestling, karate, softball and judo. He is most proud of winning his AAU National Championship medal. His hero is Kurt Angle for winning an Olympic gold medal in wrestling with a broken neck.

Garcia currently resides in New York. His birth date is April 22, 1970.

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[uvp]

odd man out in hispanics

[ceeaura]

Will be the first one out in his tribe too I bet.

[Tarman12]

So this guy is a heavy-metal guitarist, a professional wrestler, a former Marine, and a karate-judo expert?

Odd combination. Wasn't he the one that was trying to cut down a tree with a stick of bamboo?

[crappysucks]

What a lazy, delusional fool. I almost busted a gut laughing when he revealed his Candice 'love.' Pathetic!

[~ Lips ~]

Heyyyy... Everyone stop pickin' on Billy! He's in loooooooove!

Poor Billy... It's gonna be kinda hard to carry on his love-at-first-sight romance from his living room sofa now.

Crappy, I had the same reaction as you did. I about peed my panties when Billy revealed his Candace love. I loved Jeff Probst's reaction, too. Priceless!

[crappysucks]

Now I almost wish he was still on...our mocking of him was over before it could really begin.

[rook9566]

Yeah, I thought it was wierd after the challenge when they said they love each other. I thought they were just joking around. Then he says he found the love of his life?

[WickedOne]

OOOooo OOOooo OOOooo!I KNOW I KNOW!Let's ask CANDiCE!

[Tarman12]

I cannot, in my wildest dreams, imagine this big lump was once a Marine-----

[crappysucks]

He was a Marine...where'd he do basic, Fire Island?

And his band is named Forsakken...how '90s hair band cliche is that. I mean, I thought Dokken used up all the 'k's!

[dodos43]

I would say that the guy probably has some major emotional/psychological issues.

Delusions of Grandeur perhaps? Maybe in his mind he has done all these things, just as Candace and him are in love in his mind. Sad really. Oh well, can't wait to see her reaction when Probst asks her about him, and then when they get asked about it during the Aftershow.

[sisu power]

Did she really mouth something in his direction? I missed it. Poor guy just made himself look pretty dopey on national TV.

[kayo]

...and this guy is 36 freakin years old!! Sad, sad, sad...

[Rejuvenated]

I've recovered enough to come in here this morning and say someting about Billy's finding his true love....but you guys have said it all already. I hope Candice survives the next 33 days without seeing her true love. Upuntil the moment he let go with that little tidbit of insanity, I was pulling for Ozzy's plan to backfire.

[Scuba]

i loved jeff's reaction to the comment! never thought i could see him so surprised.
and i don't remember her telling him she loved him. thought she said, well, i like you when he said he was going.....like, tough break that your tribe doesn't like you.......guess i totally missed that one!

[fizzle]

i think she said "but we love you" after the challenge when he said "i am next"


i think he must have taken that as SHE loves him.. i hope he has gotten help for his delusional state.

[Scuba]

THAT'S right! it was we love you.....yes, i can see how he got that they were in love.
but didn't he say at tribal that they fell in love on the boat?

[fizzle]

yeah.. it was love at first sight.

at first site she was probably thinking "i hope he is not on my team, he looks like he needs a lot of food"

[Scuba]

HAHAHAHA!! he's a tough read at first....could have been a whitey. she may have thought he was on her team and she was working on alliances early