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. The Latin pop mainstream has been affected through his worldwide impact. In the year 2017 his hit track from 2016, Una Lady Como Tu won the Colombian Kids Choice Award Favorite Song. His debut album was a long-player ADN with the Sony-owned company based in Medellin, La Industria Inc. The album made it to the 8th spot in the Top Latin Albums Chart. Following that year, he collaborated with Ozuna to record his Top Five smash Vaina Loca. He also collaborated alongside Noriel in the song Mala Influencia in 2020 and later that year, dropped his sophomore album charting Dopamina. He appeared later in 2021 in a duet with TINI on her smash streaming song Maldita Foto. The hit single La Bachata from 2000 was released in 2023. Turizo's brother and mother were both musicians when he was born. According to him, musicality is a vital part of his life. At the age of a young child, he started learning to play the ukulele, saxophone and piano. While his initial career choice was to become a veterinarian his brother Julian convinced him to take singing lessons from an Cuban instructor and as a outcome of discovering his talents in the field of singing changed the direction of his life.