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Filipino art superstar Jigger Cruz is the kind of artist often touted in the media as an ‘overnight success’.
According to a friend, Cruz got his big break by the chance event that is the stuff of many artists’ dreams. ‘Interior decorator and art manager Miguel Rosales had scheduled a show in Italy for the painter, Pow Martinez. Due to conflicts in schedule or contracts Martinez, informed Rosales that he couldn’t make it. While visiting Martinez in his studio, he chanced on JC’s works which were kept downstairs and so he offered the show to him instead.’
