ASCAP Golden Note Award
Presented To Victor Manuelle

Whose innovative and enduring contributions to Latin music, both as a songwriter and as an artist, have earned him an extraordinary place in Latin Music worldwide.

As all of Spanish-speaking America is aware, Víctor Manuelle is a great musical talent. Manuelle's commercial success is obvious to anyone who's turned on Latin radio since 1993 - he has fifteen studio albums to his credit, all of them hits, and three live albums. Mentored in his early career by Gilberto Santa Rosa, Manuelle is known as a formidable repentista, or improviser of rhymes. He became famous as an interpreter of complex, radio-ready lyrics of amor y desamor – love and its trials, but the power of his performances comes from his mastery of traditional Puerto Rican singing.

Víctor Manuelle's first album, Justo a Tiempo, came out in 1993, followed by Sólo Contigo the next year. His third album, the Sergio George-produced Víctor Manuelle (1996) was his commercial breakthrough, and 1997's A Pesar de Todo was even bigger. Manuelle has been in the public eye ever since. Ironías (1998), Inconfundible (1999), Instinto y Deseo (2001) and Le Preguntaba a la Luna (2002) were all charttoppers with substantial radio hits. In March 2004, Manuelle's ninth studio album, Travesía, produced by Emilio Estefan, went to #1 on the Billboard charts. In 2005 he released two live albums: Dos Soneros, his collaboration with Gilberto Santa Rosa, recorded live at San Juan's Estadio Roberto Clemente, and Víctor Manuelle En Vivo Desde El Carnegie, recorded live at Carnegie Hall. In 2006 he released Decisión Unánime, which featured two numbers with Eddie Palmieri. Later that year he also released his third live album and a DVD of En Vivo Desde El Madison Square Garden, followed by Navidad A Mi Estilo, his first album on his own label, Kiyavi Records. Navidad A Mi Estilo immediately went #1 and became the top selling Christmas album of the year.

Victor Manuelle's growing confidence and maturity have allowed him to become more involved in the production side of his albums. He has also written many of his own hits. He has toured the world and performed to sold out concerts at world-renowned venues like Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall.

Throughout his career, Victor Manuelle has earned countless honors, including recognition at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, Lo Nuestro Awards, ASCAP Latin Music Awards and El Diario La Prensa's El Awards. He received a Proclamation from the City of New York, was honored by The Boys and Girls Club and was named the 2006 "International Godfather" of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, among many others accolades.

On June 12, 2008 Victor Manuelle releases SOY, his second album released on his own Kiyavi Records.