Woman on the Verge: Eva Ruiz (2024)

Music
Things That Matter To

Born in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Eva Ruiz has the ability to paint pictures with words and sounds, through her distinctly graceful, smooth yet powerful voice. She also portrays Jenna in Culpa Mia, a hitAmazon Prime Originalseries and Prime's no.1 non-English title worldwide. If singing and acting wasn’t enough, as a model, Eva has featured in Vogue Spain, GQ Spainand in campaigns forCalvin KleinandUniqloto name a few. Eva is currently working on her debut EP which will be released via Human Re Sources as well as continuing to film. Straight after The Great Escape, Eva heads off on a Spanish headline tour presented byMercury Wheels at Live Nation Spain.

by Amaranta Wright

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I remember being in the living room, very young, with my diapers on and my grandma clapping me and singing flamenco. Music has always been very present in my life. I grew up, mostly with women, my mom, my grandma, grandpa and my five aunties.

I inherited my mama's sensibility and passion for life and my dad's creativity. But my grandmother was the most influential person for me. “Don’t have a plan B” she used to say, which is the most useful piece of advice I’ve been given.

As a teenager all my music influences were powerful women. I was inspired by 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' among other albums. Rocio Jurado too, I used to sing all her songs. And Sade. All of them powerful, different and talented women. I think that’s what I like the most about them, how they have given their own message to the world.

The most memorable book I read is La Sirena de Famaraa beautiful novel based in Famara, a beach in Lanzarote where I always spend time with friends and surf. I remember reading the last chapters on a plane and crying so much

At sixteen I moved to Madrid. That definitely changed my life and my career. I’ve been lucky in that beautiful people have done a lot of things for me in my life so far, but definitely one of them is my manager Q. The first time I got to LA, he let me stay at his house and trusted me when we had nothing.

The craziest thing is seeing how everything I had in my mind is becoming real. Even stuff that I talked about with family that I don’t even remember…and then when it happens they tell me: “Oh I remember you said you were gonna do this.” It’s a beautiful feeling knowing that I'm not that crazy.

Success looks like peace of mind, family and stability. I think to keep growing is what really matters.

I would tell my younger self to believe and listen to yourself more. Don’t let people contaminate you with their opinions.

I am blessed to have beautiful friends at home. They all live basically in the ocean or for the ocean. They always remind me what is really important, not because I forget about it but because the weight of other things that are around me blur the simplicity.

I believe in God, in love and intuition.

I fear feeling lonely.

I celebrate every small thing, lately more, because we live too fast. And I wanna be able to be present for every small moment and achievement.

My favourite word is Freedom

My favourite question is How are you?

EVA RUIZ will perform 20:30 on THURSDAY 16th May @ DUST, Brighton

@evaruiz

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