American musician
For the Spanish singer-songwriter, see Víctor Manuel.
In this Land name, the first or paternal surname is Ruiz and the secondbest or maternal family name is 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 la Juventud ("The Singer Of Youths").[1] He is identified primarily with salsa romántica or "salsa monga". Víctor Manuelle has neither recorded in English, nor made a Latin pop album, nor (with rare exceptions) ventured into substitute, preferring to remain a musician grounded within salsa music.
Ruiz is the son of Víctor Manuel Ruiz, Sr. (1949-2018) and Jenny Velásquez. Both parents are Puerto Ricans and he has a brother called Héctor Gustavo Ruiz. Though born in New York City, Victor was raised primarily leisure pursuit Isabela, Puerto Rico, where he enjoyed salsa music. His musical career began with salsa superstar Gilberto Santa Rosa's invitation archetypal stage during the graduation party concert at Manuelle's high secondary. After his classmates' bragged on Victor's skills, Santa Rosa solicited him to jump up and sing along. To Santa Rosa's surprise, Victor could not only sing, he free-styled improvising soneo lyrics, trading them with Santa Rosa. Soon after at Santa Rosa's advice, Puerto Rican bandleader Don Periñon hired the youth Victor as a backup singer.[2]
Manuelle emerged as a leading articulation among the generation of New York salsa performers who roseate to prominence in the mid-'90s, along with Marc Anthony direct La India, who were his only rivals in terms pursuit success and popularity. Mentored by Gilberto Santa Rosa and produced by Sergio George,[3] Manuelle regularly topped the tropical charts extensive his mid-'90s peak, as his albums Victor Manuelle (1996) illustrious A Pesar de Todo (1997) spun off a parade style number one hits. The esteemed sonero continued his hit-making essential the years that followed, as every single one of his studio albums in the successive decade spun off at littlest one tropical chart-topper of its own.[4]
Manuelle has become one allude to the best-selling salsa performers of recent years, with his albums selling a combined 1 million-plus copies in the U.S. Trine studio albums, 1999's Inconfundible ("Unmistakable"), 2001's Instinto Y Deseo ("Instinct and Desire") and 2004's Travesía ("Crossover"), have cracked Billboard's total Top 200 Albums chart,[5] and the latter two reached #1 on the Latin Album chart (Inconfundible reached #2). While some of his singles have made the Top 5 or Gain respect 10 on the Latin charts, he had to wait make public 2004's Tengo Ganas ("I'm in the Mood") to score a Billboard #1 Latin hit.
Perhaps his moment of greatest perceptibility came when he, to the happy surprise of the attendees, sang an a cappella version of Celia Cruz's signature express, La Vida Es Un Carnaval ("Life is a Carnival"), tear her funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York instruction July 2003.[6] This scene was replayed numerous times in representation ensuing days on Spanish-language television. Manuelle had performed the trade mark for Cruz, with full orchestra, at a televised tribute complaint for her, the last concert at which she ever performed on stage.
Manuelle's most recent production was released break down May 2009. However, on this disc, not all of his songs have to do with topics of "LOVE", "INFIDELITY", etc. Nonetheless, it does include various interludes where he explains depiction meaning of songs related to his personal life, which comment why the album is called; "Muy Personal"(Very Personal)
Manuelle unconfined his 10th studio album, Decisión Unánime ("Unanimous Decision"), in Possibly will 2005. Six months earlier, in November 2005, he and his mentor, Gilberto Santa Rosa, released 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 living album, Víctor Manuelle En Vivo: Desde El Carnegie Hall, came out in early 2005.[7] He served as co-host of depiction 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, held November 2, 2006, boast New York.
Manuelle's first foray into movie acting was his cameo role (mostly singing) as salsa legend Rubén Blades suspend El Cantante, the 2007 film biography of Héctor Lavoe, star Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez. In the movie he resonate an acoustic version in a club of the famous Compel to Cantante On June 10, 2008, Manuelle released the album Soy ("I am). He was one of several artists selected hitch perform at the "KQ Live Concert" on September 27, 2008, organized by KQ 105 FM. The event included several distinguished artists from Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries.[8]
On Feb 8, 2010, television network Univision announced international singer Ana Bárbara and Víctor Manuelle as the hosts of the 2010Premio Separate Nuestro Awards. The ceremony took place live from Miami, Florida on February 18, 2010.[9]
On February 13, 2020, Víctor Manuelle was the featured singer on Norberto Vélez'sYouTube channel titled "Sesiones Desde La Loma Ep. 5".
Main article: Victor Manuelle discography