Victor Manuelle in ‘La Voz Kids’ 2015 as Mentor

Victor Manuelle teams up with Pedro Fernandez. The salsa singer is bringing his 27 years of experience to La Voz Kids to mentor Team Pedro.

The Puerto Rican singer is an international music star, known to his followers as “El Sonero de la Juventud”, which means The Singer of the Youth, and is one of the top Latino music performers and best-selling artists.

He has been in the music scene since 1987 and it is knows as a singer, songwriter and improvisational son singer.

Victor Manuelle is an established artist with best-selling albums like Inconfundible (1999), Instinto y Deseo (2001) and Travesía (2004), have cracked Billboard’s overall Top 200 Albums chart; and Inconfundible reached #1 on the Latin Album chart.

One of his greatest moments was when he sang an a cappella version of Celia Cruz’s signature song “La Vida Es Un Carnaval”, at her funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York in July 2003.

He just released his new single, “Algo Le Pasa a Mi Heroe” from his upcoming production Que Suenen los Tambores.

Victor Manuelle met salsa singer Gilberto Santa Rosa when he was a teenager. The singer performed at the graduation party of Manuelle's high school, and the salsa legend invited him to join him on-stage during the performance. Santa Rosa was so impressed by Manuelle's talent, he referred the young sonero to bandleader Don Perignon, who later hire him as a backup singer. And the rest is history. (Getty)

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