MANUEL-TURIZO

Manuel Turizo (full name Manuel Turizo Zapata) is an urbano and reggaeton singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Colombia whose trademark is his smooth buttery tenor singing voice. His music is one of the biggest in music in the Latin mainstream. In 2017, his 2016 hit Una Lady Como Tu won the Colombian Kids Choice Award Favorite Song. In 2017, he dropped ADN the first of his long-players with La Industria Inc. in Medellin. The album climbed to number 8 in the Top Latin Albums Chart. Vaina Loca was one of the Top Five hit for Ozuna as well as him the year following. He worked alongside Noriel on Mala Influencia in 2020 and next year, came out with his second album, the chart-topping Dopamina. Then in 2021 he sang an duet with TINI's streaming smash track Maldita Foto. 2000 also saw the huge record La Bachata appeared in 2023. Turizo was a member of a musical family, his younger brother and his mother are each musicians. In interviews, Turizo declared that music is an essential part of his life. As a child, he was taught to play guitar, the piano as well as the ukulele. While his initial career choice was becoming a vet, the brother Julian advised him to go for singing classes with a Cuban teacher. The end outcome of discovering his talents as a performer changed the direction of his life.