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 is a major player within music in the Latin mainstream. In the year 2017 the hit song from 2016 Una Lady Como Tu won the Colombian Kids Choice Award Favorite Song. The year after Medellin, Sony distributed La Industria Inc. and then released ADN for his debut full-length album. The album reached the top of the charts at number eighteen places on the Top Latin Albums charts. In the following year, he became part of Ozuna on their Top Five smash Vaina Loca. He worked with Noriel on Mala Influencia in 2020 and next year, dropped his sophomore album chart-topping Dopamina. Then in 2021 he sang a duet on TINI's streaming smash single Maldita Foto. In 2023, 2000 with the hit La Bachata was released. Turizo was brought up in a musical environment, because both his mother and his older brother are musicians. In his interviews, he's described playing music as an obligation. In his childhood he was taught to play the piano, guitar and the ukulele. Despite initially wanting to be veterinarian, Julian convinced him that learning with a Cuban singer would alter the direction of his profession.