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 international success has seen him break into mainstream Latin music. Una Lady Como Tu from 2016 was awarded a Colombian Kids Choice Award as Favorite Song for 2017. The album he released as his debut ADN was made available by La Industria Inc., a Medellin-based Sony distribution company. It was atop the Top Latin Albums chart, it reached no. 8. Vaina Loca, the Top Five hit of Ozuna's Top Five album in 2007, saw him join Ozuna. Mala Influencia is which was released in the year 2020, by Noriel as well as his Dopamina album in the same year. In 2021, he sang a duet for TINI's hit track Maldita Foto. 2000 also saw the huge hit La Bachata appeared in 2023. Turizo was raised in an musical family. His younger brother and his mother are also musicians. He has said in interviews that music was a necessity. He began playing the saxophone, guitar, Ukulele, and piano while an infant. His initial goal was to be a veterinarian, the brother Julian advised him to go for singing lessons with an Cuban instructor and as a outcome of discovering his talents as a singer altered the course of his life.