Rio Alma

Artist is someone who is passionate enough to draw, to write, to sing, to dance and everything. We, all is an artist in different ways and in different passion. We have a lot of artist ll over the world but not all is given a chance a chance to shine all throughout their career. This artist was one of a kind, he maybe not the most famous artist but he is surely different from other artist.

Virgilio S. Almario or Rio Alma is one of the national artist of the Philippines. He grew up in bulacan and completed his degree in A.B Political Science at the University of the East. He is known because of the numerous awards that he get from different organizations such as Palanca awards, Makata ng Taon, and South East Asia Write Award of Bangkok to name a few. Rio Alma also translate the famous work of our Philippine national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. HE is also the founder of different organizations, such as Gallan sa Arte at Tula (GAT), Linangan sa imahen, retorika at anyo(LIPA) and he is the currently chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF). He also have 9 different poetry collections and the latest was Buwan, Buwang, Bulawan (2009).

Furthermore, he is really one of our national artist who we can be proud of, as a Filipino. And even though he was not born rich, he pursue his dreams and he worked hard to aim all those awards. He really deserve what he has right now. To end this, I just want to leave an inspiring qoutes, "If you worked hard for it, you deserve it."