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Gabrielle was born in Edinburg, TX. Both her parents, Eduardo and Sylvia Ruiz are of Mexican-American decent.

She studied dance at a very young age and was a natural lover of performance. She was classically trained in vocal technique, credited to public school education. Gabrielle was inspired to be a professional performer at the age of 12 during her first visit to New York City and saw her first Broadway show. She studied at Oklahoma City University and landed Television and Broadway credits immediately after obtaining her Bachelors in Performing Arts. She's been seen in many Broadway shows and landed her breakthrough role in television as Valencia Perez on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. On May 23, 2016 it was announced that Gabrielle was being promoted to series regular returning for Season 2.

In additional to acting, Gabrielle is an advocate for inspiring the next generation of professional performers with master classes around the nation.

Cathy Baker was born on 21 January 1947 in Edinburg, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Hee Haw (1969), W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975) and Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970).

Born in Edinburg and raised in McAllen Texas, Sara Echeagaray is a 21-year-old, Mexican-American actress. While stuck in quarantine, Sara got her start on TikTok as she needed a new creative outlet. Since then, Sara has amassed 7.5 million followers on the platform. Sara starred in the Cadence13 feature podcast Treat opposite Kiernan Shipka. Sara can be seen most recently on the Disney+ series Big Shot, which was released on October 12th, 2022 with Sara's role of 'Ava Navarro' having a significant arc in the show's second season.

Benita Robledo was born on 28 June 1984 in Edinburg, Texas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for What Happens in Vegas (2008), Dependent's Day (2016) and Going the Distance (2010). She has been married to Jason Hoenich since 2017. They have one child.

Marcella 'Marcy' Love Lutes was born in the town of Edinburg, Indiana, to John Ralph Lutes, an insurance salesman, and Verna Essa Jones, a homemaker. She had three brothers, all of whom have predeceased her, Lyman Curtis, Wendell Ralph, and Marvin Lee Lutes.

She is a former American big band and jazz singer, and radio and television personality, who began her career in 1945 as a singer and radio host of W.A.K.E. radio at Wakeman Hospital in the U.S. Army's Camp Atterbury in Indiana. She got her first big break in 1947 when she joined Ray McKinley and his orchestra. They achieved their first commercially successful recording together with, "A Man Could Be A Wonderful Thing," in December of that year. She would continue to tour with McKinley's orchestra on and off throughout her brief career, when she wasn't attached to another orchestra or project.

She left Ray McKinley's orchestra in 1949 to pursue a television career alongside Artie Malvin, the two going on to produce a show for New York City's Mutual Broadcasting System, which broadcast its first episode in October of 1949. However, her television opportunities vanished by the mid 1950s, and so, she once again began to tour as 'Vocal Stylist' with the likes of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke, and later smaller groups such as the Jack Keller Trio and Herbie Fields and his Sextet.

In early 1952, her father died of a heart attack while on a train just outside of Jacksonville, Florida. The tragic year was tempered, however, by her marriage to Joseph Barrett 'Barry' Galbraith on July 23rd of that year in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, and the couple settled into their new home in New York state. Barry Galbraith was a freelance, session guitarist with bands and for radio and television shows, and at the time of his marriage to Marcy Lutes was working with the Perry Como Show's band. Unfortunately, the marriage didn't last long and the couple divorced in 1955.

Marcy Lutes brought out only one solo album in her lifetime entitled, "Debut," which 'debuted' in 1956 on Decca Records. The album was arranged by Gil and Marion Evans (no relation to each other), and the twelve-track project was overseen by Ralph Burns. It received lukewarm response in the newspapers, and a search online now, will still offer mixed reviews about her vocal abilities. By late 1956, Lutes was again touring with Ray McKinley and his orchestra.

She would marry one last time, in November of 1961, to Lloyd Carville Nickerson, an executive with General Electric's Corporate Communications Division, a widower with two children. Nickerson would be put in charge of General Electric's pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, collaborating with Walt Disney in designing an 'animatronic' theatre telling the history of electricity. This marriage too, would end in divorce in late 1964.

One of Lutes' last advertised performances was at the Commodore Club in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in February of 1960, as mentioned in "The Windsor Star," on the 29th of February.

Marcy Lutes was one of the brightest and most promising new voices of the late 1940s and early 1950s, sought after by band leaders, and radio and television shows alike. However, by the early 1960s her star was fading quickly as evidenced by her lack of appearances on television and radio programs, and her name being visibly absent from the newspapers. It is unknown why her career made such a sharp fall, but contrary to what some current music critics believe, she is still alive and living quietly in New York City (A.T.O.W. - April 2024).

Allen Lee was born on 25 September 1876 in Edinburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Declaration of Independence (1924) and Birthright (1938). He died on 5 February 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.

Daryl Hury was born on 9 January 1974 in Edinburg, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Buttleman (2003) and A Thief of Time (2003). He died on 26 April 2009 in Edinburg, Texas, USA.

Marcus Vargas was born on 4 May 1999 in Edinburg, Texas. Marcus is known for Killing Christian (2003).