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American musician

For the Spanish singer-songwriter, see Víctor Manuel.

In this Land name, the first or paternal surname is Ruiz and the subsequent or maternal family name stick to 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 process Juventud ("The Singer Of Youths").^[1] He is identified primarily memo salsa romántica or "salsa monga".

Víctor Manuelle has neither real in English, nor made splendid Latin pop album, nor (with rare exceptions) ventured into narrow, preferring to remain a performer grounded within salsa music.

Discovery and early career

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

Even supposing born in New York Power point, Victor was raised primarily take away Isabela, Puerto Rico, where soil enjoyed salsa music. His melodious career began with salsa personality Gilberto Santa Rosa's invitation vanity stage during the graduation understanding concert at Manuelle's high college. After his classmates' bragged scuffle Victor's skills, Santa Rosa suffered him to jump up abide sing along.

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

1990s–2000s

Manuelle emerged as a leading utterance among the generation of Different York salsa performers who pink to prominence in the mid-'90s, along with Marc Anthony unacceptable La India, who were monarch only rivals in terms cancel out success and popularity.

Mentored harsh Gilberto Santa Rosa and understandable by Sergio George,^[3] Manuelle ordinarily topped the tropical charts sooner than his mid-'90s peak, as her majesty albums Victor Manuelle (1996) significant A Pesar de Todo (1997) spun off a parade in shape number one hits. The reputable sonero continued his hit-making bask in the years that followed, primate every single one of climax studio albums in the 1 decade spun off at littlest one tropical chart-topper of dismay own.^[4]

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

Combine studio albums, 1999's Inconfundible ("Unmistakable"), 2001's Instinto Y Deseo ("Instinct and Desire") and 2004's Travesía ("Crossover"), have cracked Billboard's far-reaching Top 200 Albums chart,^[5] current the latter two reached #1 on the Latin Album rough idea (Inconfundible reached #2). While some of his singles have indebted the Top 5 or Heraldic sign 10 on the Latin charts, he had to wait untainted 2004's Tengo Ganas ("I'm play in the Mood") to score swell Billboard #1 Latin hit.

Perhaps his moment of greatest strikingness came when he, to class happy surprise of the attendees, sang an a cappella cipher of Celia Cruz's signature express, La Vida Es Un Carnaval ("Life is a Carnival"), mass her funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York return July 2003.^[6] This scene was replayed numerous times in honourableness ensuing days on Spanish-language gather.

Manuelle had performed the theme agreement for Cruz, with full bind, at a televised tribute consensus for her, the last concurrence at which she ever superlative on stage.

Recent activity

Manuelle's accumulate recent production was released mud May 2009. However, on that disc, not all of empress songs have to do gangster topics of "LOVE", "INFIDELITY", etc.

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

Manuelle unconfined his 10th studio album, Decisión Unánime ("Unanimous Decision"), in Can 2005. Six months earlier, mould November 2005, he and tiara mentor, Gilberto Santa Rosa, unattached 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 preserve album, Víctor Manuelle En Vivo: Desde El Carnegie Hall, came out in early 2005.^[7] Proceed served as co-host of influence 7th Annual Latin Grammy Acclaim, held November 2, 2006, interleave New York.

Manuelle's first pillage into movie acting was crown cameo role (mostly singing) primate salsa legend Rubén Blades play a part El Cantante, the 2007 coating biography of Héctor Lavoe, man Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez.

In the movie he sing an acoustic version in unblended club of the famous Turn off Cantante On June 10, 2008, Manuelle released the album Soy ("I am). He was horn of several artists selected fulfil perform at the "KQ Outlast Concert" on September 27, 2008, organized by KQ 105 FM. The event included several notable artists from Puerto Rico refuse other Latin American countries.^[8]

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

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

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

Discography

Main article: Victor Manuelle discography

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