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. He has made major global advancements into Latin pop culture. In 2017 the hit song from 2016 Una Lady Como Tu won the Colombian Kids Choice Award Favorite Song. His debut album was a long-player ADN to the local Sony distributor in Medellin La Industria Inc. On the Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 8. Vaina Loca, one of the Top Five hit of Ozuna's Top Five album in 2007, saw him join Ozuna. The group released Dopamina the chart-topping sophomore album in the years following. The year 2021 was the first time he performed as a duo TINI for her viral online single Maldita Foto. He appeared in 2023 with 2000, featuring the hit single La Bachata. Turizo was raised in a musical environment, because both his mother and older brother are professional musicians. In interviews he has described participating in music as compulsory. When a young boy, he studied the saxophone and guitar. Despite initially wanting to work as a vet, Julian convinced him that learning with a Cuban singer would alter his direction in life.