Mayte Jannell Garcia, renowned as Mayte Garcia is an American dancer, actress, singer, choreographer, TV personality, New York Times best-selling author, and co-founder of Love 4 One Another charity. She has worked with various artists, including Britney Spears. She has amazed the whole world with her beauty and grace and everyone loves her for her moves. Let's know more about Mayte Garcia in this article.
Mayte Garcia was born in Fort Rucker, Alabama army base on 12th November 1973 (Generation X). Her father John was a military pilot due to which her family never stayed at one location. Mayte’s mother Janelle (also known as Nelly) was a dancer who was a YMCA-trained dancer. Now anyone can guess from where the dancing talent comes in her. Garcia grew up with her older sister, Janice in both the countries Germany and the US.
Surprisingly, Mayte started belly dancing when she was three years old. Similarly, when she was eight years old, she appeared on a television program called “That’s Incredible” in the year 1981. So, she was the youngest belly dancer and that amazed the world. She graduated from General H.H. Arnold High School in Wiesbaden, Germany.
After four years of relationship with Prince, they got married in 1996 on St. Valentine’s Day and had a child Amiir Gregory Nelson. But, their child died six days after birth as he could not breathe due to Pfeiffer Syndrome (a genetic disorder). After a subsequent miscarriage, their marriage relation got butter, and finally, they divorced in 2000.
Matye is divorced now and is currently living in Las Vegas with her adopted daughter named Gia Garcia. She is a vegetarian and an animal rights activist for PETA. In addition, she loves Pilates and Yoga.
Mayte has Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system, but she is handling it with strength so far.
According to our information, she dated three persons after divorce with Prince. She had a relationship with Wade Robson briefly in 2001. Similarly, she was in relation to Tommy Lee for 1 year after getting together in July 2001 and got engaged in August 2002 but later separated on 30th April 2003. Mayte and Jimmy Federico had a relationship shortly in 2003. But now, she seems to be single.
Mayte Garcia is 46 years old as of April 2020. She stands at a height of 1.67m and she weighs 53kg. She uses Shoes of 7 Us (37 EU) size. She has a body measurement of 33-24-33 inches and she wears a bra with a size 38B (US). Her eyes are hazel and hair is black in color. She is an incredibly beautiful woman and her body has always been a sample for many other women.
In 1990, Mayte Garcia’s mother submitted a cassette of her daughter’s dance to a choreographer with the hope to get a work as a dancer. Luckily, Prince noticed the work of Mayte and immediately hired her during the Diamonds and Pearls tour, and at that time she was just 16 years old. In Prince‘s next album, ‘Love Symbol’, Mayte got the focus of everyone.
Also, Mayte directed the music videos for Prince’s album ‘The One’.
Mayte has choreographed the famous Britney Spears’ music video for the song ‘I’m a Slave 4 U’. As a choreographer, she was having a flourishing career. Likewise, as for acting, Mayte Garcia was seen in Bollywood movie ‘Dus’ (2005) and in ‘Firehouse Dog’ (2007) as a dancer. Also, she appeared in the Spanish language film ‘El Vacilon’ in 2005.
In addition, Mayte has appeared several times on television shows such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Psyche, Las Vegas, The Closer, 2 Broke Girls, etc.
Mayte Garcia had already got a big achievement when she was a kid being appeared on television as the youngest belly dancer. Also, she started belly dance just at the age of three which can also be taken as her achievement. Similarly, at the age of 16, she started to work for Prince. Indeed, Mayte Garcia has had a very flourishing career as a dancer and choreographer.
As Mayte has a flourishing career in dancing as well as in choreographing, most of the people are eager to know the net worth of her. Well, though she had an outstanding career, she was able to make $3.5milion net worth as of April 2020.