Much like the rest of the world in the midst of a raging pandemic, there was a point where Ruru Madrid’s career trajectory—rather, his life as a young person supposedly brimming with hope, with a wealth of things to cross off his creative bucket list—got inevitably halted and stuck in limbo. But it is in introspection and in recalibrating his ethos as an artist two long years of an uncertain pause in the business and from life as he knew of it that Madrid saw himself slowly but more carefully evolved not just in his mastery of his craft but more importantly in his sense of self. For these reasons alone, Madrid, few days shy of turning 25 and off his recent and simultaneous forays in primetime television, keeps on shining on and leading the charge with such sweet disposition.
