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 singer has been able to make major international inroads into the Latin pop scene. In 2017 the hit song from 2016 Una Lady Como Tu won the Colombian Kids Choice Award Favorite Song. The album he released as his debut ADN came out through La Industria Inc., a Medellin-based Sony distribution firm. The album peaked at the rank of eight on the Top Latin Albums charts. The following year, he collaborated with Ozuna to make Vaina Loca, an album that was a Top Five hit. He collaborated with Noriel for Mala Influencia in 2020 and the following year came out with his second album, the chart-topping Dopamina. Later in 2021 he was featured as a duo with TINI on her streaming smash song Maldita Foto. 2000 saw him perform the hit song La Bachata appeared in 2023. Turizo was raised in a musical family, his older brother and mother are both musicians. He has said in interviews that music is compulsory. At the age of a young child, he started learning to play saxophone guitar ukulele as well as piano. Although his first career choice was becoming a veterinarian his brother Julian convinced to him take singing lessons from one of the Cuban.