Meet Angelica Ruiz

Today we’d like to introduce you to Angelica Ruiz.

Hi Angelica, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I was born in Caracas, Venezuela. My life changed when my mother met my father-in-law. He was from the Dominican Republic, and my mother decided to move with his love to the Dominican Republic. Due to this. I grew up in the Dominican Republic. I spent my childhood in the Dominican Republic, part of my teen years in Venezuela, and went back to the Dominican Republic when I was 17. Over there, I met my husband and my girlfriend. We did plans to come to the US, and that’s how I ended up here. I have been in the US for only one year and a half, and I’m pursuing my goal of being a big and amazing singer. I’ve been constructing myself all these years. I’m an autodidact. Almost everything I know I’ve learned it by myself, including speaking fluid English and my signing skills. I do a lot of things, such as tattoos, teaching English for free, carpentry, compose music, and much other things that I can take my time to detail, hahaha.

Mainly, I’m a human and nature lover, I will always do my best to help people and animals around me, to make people’s life better. I know I’m on this planet to do important tasks: art and help wherever I go.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
My life has been a road full of struggles, challenges, and big walls to jump over. I had difficulties to adapt in the Dominican Republic when I arrived at the age of four. When I came back to Venezuela I was 12 years old, and most of my culture was Dominican, so I suffered bullying for a couple of years due to my accent and behaviors. I was bullied in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, actually. And there are other difficulties I went through related to being short, have a deep voice, shy personality and so on. But all of that was indeed small compared to one of the biggest struggles of my life: living in Venezuela. Between 2010 and 2016, everything got extremely difficult for me and my family, and it got up to a point where even finding toilet paper was an odyssey. We starved, we did lines for hours for two pieces of bread. I achieved a big goal, which was being admitted in one of the biggest universities in Venezuela through a test: The UCV (Central University of Venezuela). I studied for months to be there, and I remember I went to college with only a couple of mangos in my belly. Lamentably, the situation in Venezuela got extremely bad, so my mother decided to go back to the Dominican Republic. I appreciate she took that decision. If not, I would be dead already a couple of years ago.

Once back in the Dominican Republic, I did a lot of different jobs I didn’t like. For that reason, I decided to learn English by myself. I already had a little base due to video games and the rock music I used to consume. Learning English was kind of difficult, but not more than working overnights in a bar, hahaha. It took me around 1 year and a half to speak fluidly, and thanks to that I got a job at a Call Center in the Dominican Republic and made my income better. There are some other struggles, but this is a cool nutshell.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Singing is my life. I’m very good at composing music in English and Spanish, creating nice and catchy voice melodies! I’m proud of what I can compose by just listening to an instrument or a rhythm. I’m proud of my artistic creativity, my skills as a singer, painter, and drawing.

I can create amazing stories, which come even in my dreams. I love expressing certain feelings through my art: happiness, drama, and sorrow. I enjoy a lot of Mexican music, which is recognized to be full of drama, hahaha.

I can dominate new knowledge, and I don’t care how long it takes me to dominate it. I go on and insist a lot until I have it. I consider my ability of composing music definitely sets me apart. I’m really confident on that.

I’m also creative, creating content for the internet. My sense of humor is weird, but I like it and people seem to like it to. I like to be funny and hilarious.

Acting is part of what I enjoy to do, I have to get more involved in it. I was part of a small project for a short film of a friend of mine. Since then, acting has been part of me.

What was your favorite childhood memory?
When I saw my brother for the first time after he was born. He was my savior, since I waited for him because I wanted a person to play with, a friend. He was, at that moment, the best gift I ever had.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelica.ruizr/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angelica.ruizmusic
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AngelicaRuiz

Image Credits
Credit to Sergio Sosa for the feria and black and white pictures.