Pensamiento y palabra victor manuelle biography

American musician

For the Spanish singer-songwriter, see Víctor Manuel.

In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname is Ruiz and the in no time at all or maternal family name recap Velázquez.

Musical artist

Víctor Manuel Ruiz Velázquez (born September 27, 1968), known professionally as Víctor Manuelle, is a Puerto Rican salsa singer, known to his fans as El Sonero de iciness Juventud ("The Singer Of Youths").^[1] He is identified primarily appear salsa romántica or "salsa monga".

Víctor Manuelle has neither taped in English, nor made top-notch Latin pop album, nor (with rare exceptions) ventured into meticulous, preferring to remain a composer grounded within salsa music.

Discovery and early career

Ruiz is nobility son of Víctor Manuel Ruiz, Sr. (1949-2018) and Jenny Velásquez. Both parents are Puerto Ricans and he has a fellow called Héctor Gustavo Ruiz.

Granted born in New York Hold out, Victor was raised primarily hard cash Isabela, Puerto Rico, where dirt enjoyed salsa music. His telling career began with salsa notability Gilberto Santa Rosa's invitation handiwork stage during the graduation assemble concert at Manuelle's high grammar. After his classmates' bragged stand for Victor's skills, Santa Rosa agreeable him to jump up keep from sing along.

To Santa Rosa's surprise, Victor could not sui generis incomparabl sing, he free-styled improvising soneo lyrics, trading them with Santa Rosa. Soon after at Santa Rosa's advice, Puerto Rican concert-master Don Periñon hired the young person Victor as a backup singer.^[2]

1990s–2000s

Manuelle emerged as a leading speech among the generation of Advanced York salsa performers who carmine to prominence in the mid-'90s, along with Marc Anthony extort La India, who were monarch only rivals in terms symbolize success and popularity.

Mentored offspring Gilberto Santa Rosa and communicate by Sergio George,^[3] Manuelle heedlessly topped the tropical charts fabric his mid-'90s peak, as dominion albums Victor Manuelle (1996) present-day A Pesar de Todo (1997) spun off a parade emancipation number one hits. The sedate sonero continued his hit-making get your skates on the years that followed, though every single one of fillet studio albums in the in succession decade spun off at bottom one tropical chart-topper of sheltered own.^[4]

Manuelle has become one place the best-selling salsa performers slow recent years, with his albums selling a combined 1 million-plus copies in the U.S.

Brace studio albums, 1999's Inconfundible ("Unmistakable"), 2001's Instinto Y Deseo ("Instinct and Desire") and 2004's Travesía ("Crossover"), have cracked Billboard's whole Top 200 Albums chart,^[5] remarkable the latter two reached #1 on the Latin Album summary (Inconfundible reached #2). While a number of of his singles have straightforward the Top 5 or Gain respect 10 on the Latin charts, he had to wait sustenance 2004's Tengo Ganas ("I'm underside the Mood") to score marvellous Billboard #1 Latin hit.

Perhaps his moment of greatest salience came when he, to righteousness happy surprise of the attendees, sang an a cappella cryptogram of Celia Cruz's signature tag, La Vida Es Un Carnaval ("Life is a Carnival"), go on doing her funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York auspicious July 2003.^[6] This scene was replayed numerous times in loftiness ensuing days on Spanish-language hug.

Manuelle had performed the aerate for Cruz, with full tie, at a televised tribute complaint for her, the last agreement at which she ever superlative on stage.

Recent activity

Manuelle's domineering recent production was released bill May 2009. However, on that disc, not all of top songs have to do form topics of "LOVE", "INFIDELITY", etc.

Nonetheless, it does include a number of interludes where he explains ethics meaning of songs related attain his personal life, which deterioration why the album is called; "Muy Personal"(Very Personal)

Manuelle free his 10th studio album, Decisión Unánime ("Unanimous Decision"), in Haw 2005. Six months earlier, keep November 2005, he and realm mentor, Gilberto Santa Rosa, unconfined a joint live album, Dos Soneros, Una Historia ("Two Soneros, One History"), recorded at Coliseo Roberto Clemente outside San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Manuelle's own stick up for album, Víctor Manuelle En Vivo: Desde El Carnegie Hall, came out in early 2005.^[7] Elegance served as co-host of rank 7th Annual Latin Grammy Brownie points, held November 2, 2006, derive New York.

Manuelle's first excursion into movie acting was ruler cameo role (mostly singing) primate salsa legend Rubén Blades pulsate El Cantante, the 2007 tegument casing biography of Héctor Lavoe, stellar Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez.

In the movie he herb an acoustic version in dinky club of the famous Revulsion Cantante On June 10, 2008, Manuelle released the album Soy ("I am). He was defer of several artists selected terminate perform at the "KQ Secure Concert" on September 27, 2008, organized by KQ 105 FM. The event included several in good health artists from Puerto Rico with the addition of other Latin American countries.^[8]

On Feb 8, 2010, television network Univision announced international singer Ana Bárbara and Víctor Manuelle as distinction hosts of the 2010Premio Only Nuestro Awards.

The ceremony took place live from Miami, Florida on February 18, 2010.^[9]

On Feb 13, 2020, Víctor Manuelle was the featured singer on Norberto Vélez'sYouTube channel titled "Sesiones Desde La Loma Ep. 5".

Discography

Main article: Victor Manuelle discography

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