"The American Yamil Borges has become a Berliner by choice after she brilliantly cast the leading role in" Chicago "in the Theater des Westens. The show has long since moved on, but Yamil Borges has stayed. She has reoriented herself in the city and not only as a singing dancer - she has been doing it for thirty years. Her career began at the famous New York musical forge "La Guardia High School Of Performing Arts". Yamil Borges grew up in a large Puerto Rican family in the New York City of Bronx. worked hard on the American Dream and was actually discovered.

When Leonard Bernstein re-staged his "West Side Story" on Broadway in 1979, he promptly hired her for the role of "Rosalia". In a very short time she became a Broadway star. In the musical film "A Chorus Line" in 1985 she played a hopeful musical actress at the side of Michael Douglas. For this role she didn't have to pretend to be too big. Other roles on television followed, such as in the crime series "Miami Vice" and the "Bill Cosby Show".

A New York musical tour production brought Yamil Borges to Germany for the first time in the early 1990s.